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43280e58 7d68-4681-9451-714b4c101a65 on 14 Apr 2016 16:25:02

It would be nice if there is an option to have a scheduled export of a report to PDF. A nice to have feature would be to directly e-mail it to people so they are being notified of the latest report.

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Sonali Gupta (administrator) on 13 Mar 2023 08:32:56

Another update on this item - users now have the ability to set up scheduled subscriptions with paginated reports and 6 different formats, along with parameters per subscription to allow further personalization. There is also now the ability to create paginated reports against any Power BI dataset in the service, and we're planning to add drillthrough from Power BI to Paginated Reports in the short term. We still have plans to support e-mail attachments for Power BI reports as well in the coming months, and we'll share more specifics once we get closer to starting that work.

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f9054637 adde-4d69-9e5c-435237d72c8e on 16 Aug 2020 04:16:00

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Hi Chris, Any update by when ability to print/export the entire table of data to PDF or other format will be available?Ability to export to PDF with custom visuals and take print is needed and not having is a shortcoming as a functionality. Hoping the next releases would address this issue.

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7973aa2a 535a-40fc-ad14-319feef46728 on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:43

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

PDF are pretty useless. i'm voting for the ability to auto export the data/measures to csv or excel so it can be used to create a time series of a measure

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c24ee3bd 84f8-4ea1-8b91-465ca2766899 on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:41

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Dear Chris,

Please check the below idea also https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/16822066-load-data-from-office-365-planner-to-powerbi

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bc2e3fe0 36fb-4b8d-8f6b-1aebbc7f45d8 on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:37

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Solved for Pro and PBRS users - automated generation and distribution of PDF reports with user-defined slicers. See product demo at https://youtu.be/Lc2tSRgAGAE. Go to BI Helper https://bihelper.tech for details.

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626e58f2 05da-4f65-97d4-2725d3f9c1cf on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:35

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Hi Chris Finlan,

Any update by when ability to print/export the entire table of data to PDF or other format will be available. Thnx

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73a35520 92cd-471b-9eba-ab78df04e282 on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:10

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Thanks for the Update We would love to see exporting PDFs/Excel/PPT via Power BI subscriptions

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b11ca3f4 8131-4213-b166-ff2cc53536ab on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:54

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Thanks for the update. We would love to see exporting PDFs via Power BI subscriptions instead of just png files.

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626e58f2 05da-4f65-97d4-2725d3f9c1cf on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:45

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Do we have scheduled export of report to PDF for PRO users, Also the Entire table will be printed? This is long wait from last 2 years hope this is going to available soon

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3ad5368f 844b-4cd8-bbd8-35b77376b31d on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:45

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Just two add my two cents, this could be huge for us, although I can see there are numerous issues with the implementation, e.g., how it works w/ RLS and Security Groups, whether specific Bookmarked versions of reports can be set up for PDF/email distribution, etc. I think the tables/scrolling issue is a red herring: I would expect we'd have to set up reports so all relevant data appear on the canvass without scrolling - a PDF obviously cannot display records which are not visible on the canvass.

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161197c9 332d-450a-a57c-8e73193d5365 on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:44

RE: scheduled export of a report to pdf

Can we send e-mails with PDF documents to e-mail accounts that are not subscribed to the service? Licensing is tricky for many customers.