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Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

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on 23 Nov 2017 00:53:46

Please add the capability to export Report Server PowerBI reports to formats like pdf, word, powerpoint. Some of this functionality exists in the service but please add it to Report Server.

Administrator on 01 Apr 2019 23:31:06

We'd hoped we'd have a good way to bring this functionality to the server - however, 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. As a workaround, we suggest using the Export to PDF capabilities in Power BI Desktop for Report Server.

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88e50b9a aab2-487a-af63-f13cd4c15118 on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:25

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

Very discouraging. And the PBRS from ChristianSteven Software appears to be expensive for smaller operations.

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6344c891 4c75-4129-a675-d1eb8543d5e1 on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:25

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

With this feature being closed is there anyway to export/print multi-page reports to PDF without using the desktop app?

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b9fcd75d 6d73-ea11-a811-000d3a579c44 on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:25

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

As an alternative, try a third party tool like PBRS by ChristianSteven Software. It allows you to schedule and automate the export and delivery of Power BI & SSRS reports to pdf, excel, word, powerpoint and so on. You can send them to email, disk, SharePoint, Dropbox, Slack, Google Sheets, Google Drive, FTP etc.

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ccf04853 7c71-49d2-b98c-b7f0671419a8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:24

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NOOO!!

If this is not introduced, then please make sure the printing functionality does improve so pictures and colours is printed as PDF properly.

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85774cbd 63ce-4a71-a1c2-0ee930d2a0cb on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:42

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Can we be able to select tabs within a report that we want to export to PDF. May not want to export all tabs of a report to PDF.

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a93cae23 be64-434e-bc49-ede566c1324b on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:31

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

We have a number of PowerBI reports with several tabs that we need to be able to print to PDF from the browser. We'd like the functionality to be comparable to that in the service where we can click "export to pdf" and all pages are printed to a PDF, without our users having to print each page individually.

The admin comment from 5/17/2018 indicated that this was planned - what is the status on it? How soon will this be available?

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0dee53ac 00b9-4c54-a316-aa5b89f78e58 on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:01

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

We and Our customers are looking for 'Export to PDF' feature like SSRS in Power BI Report Server. Any update on in which release Microsoft will include this feature?
Appreciate your help.
Regards,
Prashant A.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:32

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Hi,
in the post on your blog you didn't mention anything about any restrictions for Live Connection to Analysis Services. why?! We use cubes!
and why we can (can't in our case) subscribe our clients - people outside our company, who don't have power bi pro license.
We were looking so long for this feature. And now it is totally useless for us

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18657250 c979-4369-aa09-85ddd5086c5e on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:32

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

We're looking for sharing features to be available to non-designers. That report consumers/viewers can use them when embedded, using any of the embed methods.

For example, enabling RDL is most useful (for us) when this can be shared outside the power bi app and the power bi service.

In the same light, export to PDF is most useful when its embedded, ie beyond Power BI app and beyond Power BI service.

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fec41660 0992-408a-a152-fb211093dfe1 on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:28

RE: Export Report Server Power BI report to PDF

Why is this not in the latest update Jan2019