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Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

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Stephen Watson on 20 Mar 2020 20:58:38

Some datasets and analyses are too sensitive to even allow export to PDF, PPT and printing. But at the moment this option is only available to alter at the tenant level. It would be better to have it either at workspace level, or better, at report level in the same way as data exports are set at report level.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:31:56

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

I need the same requirement due to security reasons on my report.

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Tejas Patel on 05 Jul 2020 23:30:38

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

I also need same option for report due to security reasons.

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Steve Green on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:46

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

The option to disable data export would be extremely welcome. Just allow control at the report level would be a useful start.

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Steve Powel on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:27

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

We also need this for the SSRS version, the ability to control this at either report / folder or role level would be useful, so some reports/users would be able to and others wouldn't.

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Mark Cunningham on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:33

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

The tenant settings don't give the control needed. It needs to be controlled at the report level and applied to a user, not applied to the user at the tenant level.

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:00

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

Whilst there is some control in the Service and Export can be turned off at the tenant level (which is far too blunt) there is no way to control this for Embedded which we need. If this is important to you please vote for this one as well. https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/16633324-disable-export-data-function-in-power-bi-embeded

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:23

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

We need this in Embedded as well as the service.

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 22:31:57

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

Along with the power to turn off export at a dashboard level we really need the ability to be able to turn off analyse in excel. We want to be able to use analyse in excel for our interal users but this will allow external users access which means they can get access to our entire database which is not somthing that we can allow. Hopefully this is one that will get looked at soon!

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:37

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

In the same way that turning off Q and A is an option for each dashboard turning off export should be an option. This should be easy to do and is a major concern for us. Please make this happen soon.

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David Cresp on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:25

RE: Enable/Disable export to PDF, PPT and printing functionality by workspace or by report. Rather than at tenant level.

The March addition of having the admin level turn off export does not provide enough control. We need to be able to disable export for some reports that we share with external users. Far more control is needed over this feature. This is needed for us as a priority feature and I agree this should get more votes.

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