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Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

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on 30 Jun 2017 14:48:21

Be able to create email subscriptions for the PBIX reports in the Report Server

Administrator on 01 Apr 2019 23:54:34

We’d hoped we’d have a good way to bring this functionality to the server – however, similarly to Export to PDF, after a lengthy evaluation of all the options and required investments, we’re not planning to bring this feature to the server at this time.

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da3f4971 acd4-4d9a-b983-7c42f2465532 on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:33

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

The ability to subscribe oneself to reports, and the ability for administrators to subscribe other users to reports would very useful.

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48f0007e 3c2c-4ffd-850a-0d768626684a on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:15

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

Completely agree. This would make it very easy to get this data to the right people. Currently, I subscribe and get the emails, but have a rule set that when I receive the subscription email it forwards it to my team in the morning.

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c404a053 b117-44f0-be4a-83096f3ab38a on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:15

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

very much agree. :)

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8b4c3895 2b3c-4dea-8eff-3bbfab513af0 on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:11

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

2 ideas:
1) Can subscription options similar to SSRS be added - so you could schedule the time, audience, etc.
2) Currnetly, there is a subscription available, but it emails a max of 1x/day no matter how often the data refreshes. Could it be an option to allow the user to set the # of reports to receive max per hour/day/etc? Or perhaps an option to "Receive the report after X data refreshes" or something along those lines? With our data source (tabular cube) that builds 3 times/day - ideally our users want their reports each time the data refreshes - not just at the first build of the day (2 AM).

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69d9daab 7e73-4072-8397-5bfb3494ce56 on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:54

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

Please add caching for Power BI Report Server?

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:50

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

This is critical feature for Power Report server, specially reports that cannot be published to Power BI service.

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f5c35343 2819-4e1b-a4b7-58ccd03d9771 on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:25

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

if we can email PBI reports as PDF would really help

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2bfdd840 f150-4ac0-a0fe-c0bd0acb6cec on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:16

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

It's standard in BI to have a subscription service. This is an area where Tableau is better than Power BI because it fails to adhere to this requirement.

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306a2ff0 53a7-49ec-bf01-6d2288c68b95 on 05 Jul 2020 23:00:16

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completely agree - this is a no-brainer feature from my point of view.

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43b64fe9 43a2-44e2-96b8-9c62e72a48f5 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:43

RE: Email subscriptions for Power BI reports in Report Server

PowerBI report email subscriptions was part of the whole reason I wanted to use Power BI report server for our company. I initially assumed that this was a completed feature but just found out that it isn't. I hear it is on the backlog of things to do so would be nice to move it up on the list. We would not purchase without PBIRS without this feature.