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Increase Export Data Limits

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Adam Wilson (POWER BI) on 24 Feb 2017 01:34:44

In late 2016, Power BI improved our export data options to allow exporting up to 150,000 rows to Excel from a visual on a Power BI dashboard for Pro users. If you require higher limits, please vote on this idea. If you have more specific requirements, please leave them in the comments.

Administrator on 30 Jul 2020 16:56:47

There are longer term plans to allow larger exports in that use case, but there isn't a current timeline as to when that will be available. Customers who have Power BI Premium can set a drill-through to paginated reports via URL parameters as a workaround in the interim, as there is no data export limit for paginated reports.

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63b2e097 91fb-458e-a81e-13c7cdb3b227 on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:01

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

We should be able to export what we put into it... #HotelCalifornia Any updates on an ETA?

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a92640e2 9aa9-4bbe-ac79-fd46e98c9402 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:40

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

The limit of records to be exportable should be adjustable by report designer. For example if by design of report developer, export to CSV should support unlimited records. Or - offer an option for the user to select a "sample" when pulling the report, eg first x records, or the complete dataset. For large datasets, add a warning such as "this dataset contains 1,232,353 records and may take a long time to export. Do you want to continue?"

Another idea is to add a status/progress bar for % complete and estimated time to complete as the export runs.

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4af603d5 d001-4a0e-af1c-c193b47a7cae on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:47

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Great that you address this. Would be perfect. We have a clear need of being able to process more than 150k rows in R visuals; actually, borderline deal breaker for us. Thanks!

/Jonas Mortin, Data scientist, Verisure.

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2c63cc73 b634-4028-8c53-58f55607108a on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:44

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I agree, there should be no export limits
We need to process files with more than 150000 rows and 16MB of records

Yves from Labrie Enviroquip Group

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c3440678 3ee6-43ed-9e52-6137a6b73133 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:58

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I agree, there should be no export limits
We need to process files with millions of records
Stéphane from SNCF France

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09f5f8fe c2f2-45be-abd1-3e9d85d83fc5 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:05

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

The capabilities of Power BI to transform data are great. The transformed data cannot currently be used in other reports / applications because we can not export it from Power BI. This really limits a lot of uses for the product.

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ca368ee8 46c3-4c2f-94c9-85bed4a991a6 on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:38

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I agree. There should not be a limit. We need to process files with millions of records. 30k-csv/150k-xlsx limit has no sense.

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3aafc7b6 03d7-4330-9701-763403587a98 on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:44

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

There shouldn't be any restriction on amount of rows to be exported. May be it can split records to more than one excel with each excel containing up to 100,000 rows making it convenient for users in case the record count is huge

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e56c55f0 fb9a-464b-b60d-d027aa78af4f on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:00

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

I agree that there should be no limit when it comes to exporting data.

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6f0e629f b5f0-4ac4-8a12-c6ddbba33d05 on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:57

RE: Increase Export Data Limits

Hallelujah!!! Hugely glad to see it's finally being addressed and, since data volumes keep increasing year over year, we definitely hope it will allow a full data dump.