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Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

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Mey Meenakshisundaram on 11 Nov 2014 09:19:41

I can copy the visual either as image or data table and paste it in other applications.

Administrator on 10 Jul 2020 16:04:38

We recently released the ability to export data from tiles and visuals to a CSV file. This may work for y'all as a workaround until we add the ability to directly copy and paste the visual or data. You can read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2016/01/06/power-bi-service-update-0106.aspx#exportTile. Be sure to let us know what you think about the feature!

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29918ebf 093d-4303-bec4-000a150e0c7d on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:26

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Hello,

How do you export tile data to excel while in power bi desktop? This is extremely useful for debugging / problem solving during the authoring process. There is no tile menu that I can see in desktop...? Please let me know when you have a chance. Thanks!

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c89afcc6 c910-4503-b30d-9f71393c99c8 on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:14

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Awesome! Great to see our feedback adopted, it's important that routine simple functions are available to those users who are transitioning to a more online, instant workflow with their reports

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8e316038 c72b-42ee-b548-a7746ad8a54e on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:56

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Meanwhile you can use this Workaround: With the December update you can use the workaround via R to export your data from Power BI to txt or SQL-server: http://www.thebiccountant.com/2015/12/28/how-to-export-data-from-power-bi-and-power-query/

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dab386cd 6733-4209-8430-c66cf0d1ef5a on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:18

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

This would be very important; every other BI tool I've used allows some method to copy/paste or export data from a particular report

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6bebb9e5 6fa3-e911-a968-000d3a4f33c1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:02

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Hi Team :)
If this feature is implemented, I'd like to see some control on the Dashboard owner side, to allow/disallow the feature, as well as be able to track who has downloaded the data, and what data they have downloaded, and when. This is useful as our dashboards are Microsoft confidential.
Thank you :)

Kelly

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6b018ded b9f5-445f-b254-9f854a787c85 on 05 Jul 2020 22:09:04

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

I'd love to have this available - we're using Power BI to present some of the customer feedback that we've gathered for our site, and having the copy/paste (as text, not as image) feature is essential to making the report useful.

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aeb3937b 9d42-4ee5-a2d7-19bc3f8240b7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:08:40

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Excel allows you to copy data in a table, if power BI can at least allow copy from a table directly, it will be great.

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09979a4b cc28-4a7a-8068-3f6c7e2674f0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:34

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

Any idea on the ETA for this?

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ed169991 bf6d-47ee-b2e9-191b8f0b31cd on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:09

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

This a very important to have to copy data in other Tools (like for example agreements numbers, oppty ids, all "complicated" data. When it will be available

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ff1a350d b114-43dd-a9bc-52605ffc5043 on 05 Jul 2020 22:05:28

RE: Copy/paste the data behind the visual in Power BI to other applications

It would be great if I could copy a report page created on PowerBI.com back to the desktop report the data originated from.