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Allow customization of email subscription schedule

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Sirui Sun on 18 Jan 2017 06:23:08

Extend the existing email subscription feature to allow me to specify exactly *when* the email is sent out - e.g. send me the email at 2pm every Monday.

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

Administrator on 04 Feb 2019 01:27:57

Thanks for all your votes! We recently shipped this capability in the Power BI service - you can read more about it here - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/e-mail-subscription-time-based-scheduling-now-available/

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PhilP on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:07

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

Great to hear it's being worked on! Can you PLEASE not limit it to PBI Premium like everything new these days?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:06

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

Can you please also send report data out in .csv format; PNG for data is absolutely pointless!

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James on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:45

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

Agreed. A subscription schedule should not be tied to the refresh schedule of a data set. Each subscription should have it's own schedule.

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Miles Cole on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:28

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

This is very important. Often times with dashboards you have data that takes completes refreshing at different times...thus if you schedule a weekly or daily email, it will get triggered by the first data model to be refreshed so you are sending users a snapshot of sometimes only 1 out of 20 visuals refreshed. If you could specify the time of day for it to send you could have it scheduled after all data models finish refreshing.

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tak on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:16

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

I unchecked the link to report in the subscription selection option, saved and closed. However, I still see the "GOTO report" button in the email. Is it supposed to be like this?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:28

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

very important!

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John Koziaris on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:50

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

Yes please - I need it.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:49

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule



The subscription scheduled should have the below options for users to choose from...

1. Daily (Should be able to specify what time of day.)
2. Weekly (Should be able to specify what day and time.)
3. Monthly (Should be able to specify what date and time.)
4. Every time the dataset is refreshed.
5. Send email now.

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Stas Adamovic on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:59

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

This is extremely important, as some data changes very often yet people want to be updated only during certain times.

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Stas Adamovic on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:59

RE: Allow customization of email subscription schedule

Posting it on schedule is extremely important - some data changes all the time yet people don't have time to review it that often or just want to see the trends