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Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

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Gavin de Kock on 05 Jul 2017 13:37:28

Mobile Reports have a sample preview of what the underlying report looks like. Users find this useful when looking for the report they need. Can this be done for the Power BI tiles?

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Andy Parkerson on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:31

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

I am looking into this for embedding purposes. It would be nice to get the list of reports in a workspace programmatically and then display the name and thumbnail of the report. It doesn't have to be updated more than once a week or so.

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Tom Corcoran on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:48

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

Any updates on this being done?

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Scott Hardy on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:27

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

At the moment we are thinking to store an image file in the database for this purpose; if it could be a feature that would be even better.

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Marko Oja on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:53

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

Any update on this? Our customers request this all the time. Even a custom thumbnail image would do the job.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:58

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

thumbnails give shiny face to report server portal
now, the face is solid

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Remeez on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:13

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

I am currently trying to find a solution to this. I am manually taking screenshot, creating a thumbnail for every visualization.

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Kevin on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:06

RE: Show thumbnails of Power BI reports (same as the Mobile Reports)

This would also be great for embedded. Possibly an API endpoint to get the thumbnail of report or adding thumbnail URL property to the Report model when retrieving all reports