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Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

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on 03 May 2018 19:09:05

The lay-out of printed dashboards and report pages is lost when you print the page. Proper printing functionality is still missing (may 2018). In my humble opinion this should be a priority.

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ffc95a18 077c-4f05-875f-9b46c01a75f0 on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:16

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

can we also consider this for power bi embedded

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6a8721d6 0c30-4f82-b839-df08c28f61a8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:28

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

need a way to iterate over the report data and print entire table by filter. say you are using account numbers, the table data would have all account numbers, but the iterative reports, output, would be by account number. and all table data, visible and non-visible would print,

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271b5d21 adab-4b0b-8511-26c665969a07 on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:51

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Currently, I have a nice background in Power BI reports, but when trying to print from the Power BI service the background images gets cropped and moved down at the bottom of the page. Same happens when exporting to PDF.

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8de5dba1 3884-4038-8a49-c18ca087fac0 on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:36

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

We need this!!

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c0607ca9 8c30-4c1d-bd80-94db118d54ec on 05 Jul 2020 23:34:35

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Printing may not be the most important function, but it cannot be that bad thought, right?

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c90c0d26 e3ce-4f9f-828f-5f17f42eda15 on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:46

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Seconding this comment:

"printing means all items in the report (even records that go across multiple pages) are rendered appropriately to be printed out."

We have to have a way to print everything in a long running table. A table has to be able to be set to span multiple pages, with headers on each page.

It is mission critical for our use case with clients, they require printed reports for executive meetings.

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fcce559a 1f75-49f8-82bd-de40d6bbe0e8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:39

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

I agree that Tableau is 1000% better than Power BI in printing and exporting, if we could get a exporting and printing functionality as same as SSRS then no doubt in moving to Power BI from Tableau.

We are pushing back Power BI due to lack of exporting functionality.

this should be a high priority than others.

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520ef41f 5cc6-4070-ada7-aafba239f666 on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:06

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Printing and exporting static reports is one area where Tableau is vastly superior to Power BI. In fact, its enough of a benefit to switch back to that product.

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80d35a32 e0d8-46f5-8aa5-f89265af6625 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:23

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

its simple...printing means all items in the report (even records that go across multiple pages) are rendered appropriately to be printed out.

if you can do it in SSRS, why is this so hard?