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Sirui Sun on 18 Jan 2017 05:36:46

Extend the email subscription feature, currently in public preview, to enable subscribing *others* to email snapshots of reports.

More information about the existing email subscriptions feature can be found here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-email-subscriptions-in-power-bi-stay-informed-when-it-matters/preview/

Administrator on 05 Jun 2018 07:08:27

Hi all, We released this feature today for Power BI - check out the blogpost discussing how to take advantage of this new functionality - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/subscribe-others-to-email-subscriptions-in-power-bi/

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6fc8f5c7 2a05-48c3-ba55-bac89e0a0b98 on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:12

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

It'd be really helpful to be able to submit lists of email addresses to receive reports created by someone on their team without actually having to have that person go and accept them. I can't expect someone that simply needs to look at the report and act on it to necessarily go and subscribe for each new relevant report that's created.

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43b64fe9 43a2-44e2-96b8-9c62e72a48f5 on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:10

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

This is really important for my current situation. Managers and others do not want to log in to Power BI. They just want an email of a report sent to them without having to subscribe to it themselves. Please set the priority high for this.

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9c1f3a74 38f9-4b05-8c7f-928fb6467527 on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:06

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

The ability to manage subscriptions for groups will be very important to the long term viability of the PowerBI product within our organization and to our clients. Many decision makers do not want to or do not have the ability to login to Power BI themselves. "Pushing" the insights developed within PowerBI will further help to embed the technology within organizations

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80563a9a 00a4-40b8-ac9c-b20f9d2ddf29 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:53

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

It would be great to be able to also "manage" those subscriptions so I could turn them off for people when they don't want the reports anymore.

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12f14f8e aee2-421c-ae41-23cf48bc5c43 on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:53

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

Would love to have this feature added as well.

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3ebd3dd3 3c26-4811-b5e1-bc24e2788314 on 05 Jul 2020 22:50:12

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

This is very important, managers generally wont log in to see reports, they only want to see the big picture

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7dfb9ec6 03d8-46e2-a1b9-324ded615ad3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:40

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

Having the ability to send out snapshots (gifs being linked back to PBI) of the most recent dashboard rendered to the members of an Office365 group in a format that can be defined either by user or Dashboard creator, is critical for Enterprise Adoption of PBI.

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dfeb97cd 4f16-4d6e-bab6-5133807a8f81 on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:33

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

Basically being able to use email AD group and/or users to the subscription. Currently we are using SSRS as PBI doesn't support this.

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63818b2b 1be4-4926-9913-61a5f4ebfdd3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:29

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

This is very important feature to use Power BI... because many users don't open powerbi service to see the report, they want to receive the report (pdf or excel) in their inbox.

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9c25ae32 80ec-4b95-96c3-48a4f08f2c76 on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:32

RE: Subscribe *others* to emails of reports

Please it will be hard to get my organisation on board with PowerBI if this feature is not released because report subscriptions is the core of our current process and not having this defeats the whole PowerBI Idea. Thanks a lot for looking into this.