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Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

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Ankush Sharma on 18 Oct 2021 14:06:16

Currently, you can only export those Power BI report where total report pages are less than or equal to 50. If a report has more than 50 pages and you try to export it (PDF/PPT) you get an error message saying:

Unable to export more than 50 pages
Your report exceeds the maximum number of pages we currently support. Please reduce the number of pages and try again.

I have a huge Power BI report (more than 50 pages) and is currently embedded in a .NET application. The team is using REST API which triggers an export request on Power BI services but it fails every time as the report exceeds the maximum page limit. We have also tried various workarounds like sending export request (via API) for a limited number of pages but none of them seems to work. The 50 pages limitation supersedes everything.

We do not want to create multiple reports (with less pages) as the different sections are interlinked and this will be a mess to maintain moving further.

I have seen multiple people facing this issue, thus raising an idea here. Please upvote to get the limitation removed.

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feyruz on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:48

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

yes please I definetely need more than 15 pages. Thanks!

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WalTig on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:48

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

With this limitation at least make it possible to select the pages (up to 15) you want to download to Powerpoint. Or an easy something like "currect page only".

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

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

This is a frustrating limitation which would be great if we could get removed.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:10

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

It is unclear to me witch pages count for the limit of 15? I have a report with 7 pages whitch gives the same error message.

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Lee Ng on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:59

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

Frustrating limit to say the least. Not even sure why was it put there in the first place or why hidden sheets count towards that limit...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:58

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

How come this haven't been taken care of yet?

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James Hammond on 05 Jul 2020 23:27:01

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

Any update on this? Splitting a report into chunks when putting into PBI online and then exporting is rather tedious.

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Debra Smith on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:38

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Since we don't have the ability to download to PDF, it is a must to be able to export more than 15 pages to powerpoint. People still need actual reports.

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ML on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:43

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

This would be a great idea

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:19

RE: Power BI reports with more than 50 report pages cannot be exported

Welcome to the 21st century, powerBI is so far behind other BI tools.

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