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Pedro Innecco on 09 Aug 2018 14:41:22

The export to PDF feature of Power BI Desktop is awesome. Could we have this PDF support option via the embedded API to generate PDFs into a network location? Say, an UNC path. This would be fantastic for bespoke applications!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:20

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

Now that export to pdf option is availbale in Power BI service is there a way this functionality can bring to the embbeded application?

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Mona on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:47

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

Hi ,

Currently i dont see any feature to Send power bi reports as PDF via mail.
can we include functionality like that of PBRS or power BI robots.
Both are 3rd party tools , it would be great if we dont have to rely on 3rd party and can have Microsoft add such functionality.

Please consider to add this

Regards,

Mona.

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Sakshi on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:37

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

Is there any chances of introducing this feature in future?

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Leo on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:29

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

Yes, its definitly missing .. I love the Export to PDF fearure in the Desktop Version and really miss it in PBI Embedded.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:42

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

feels like power bi embedded isnt getting very much attention from MS even though its a premium capacity feature. Desktop has export to pdf, service has export to powerpoint, embedded has nothing!

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Wout O on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:12

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

Ideally, a way to add specific filters that will be applied in the exported PDF would be great.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:02

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

We had a simple solution in place to generate PDF reports out of Power BI dashboards. We were doing it via PhantomJs where we load the dashboard into a browser and take a screenshot of what's seen on the view but even this method is not working in the new Power BI embedding. I am seeing these errorrs being emitted through the browser console.


onConsoleMessage: Proxy(ehqng): Error occurred when handler was processing incoming message: {
"method": "POST",
"url": "/reports/s4a6h/events/rendered",
"headers": {
"id": "u1025"
},
"body": {},
"params": {
"uniqueId": "s4a6h",
"eventName": "rendered"
},
"queryParams": {}
}


Error: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Promise, ,

12:13:35 onError: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Promise, [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Olivier Rhoer, v/d on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:33

RE: Export to PDF via Power BI Embedded API

We want a comment system beside out embedded reports. The feedback we got is that some comments are done when the report is in a specific state that the readers of the comment can't reproduce.
A screenshot (of PDF) of the state of the report when the comment is made would be extremely helpfull!