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Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

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Ryan Bentham on 08 Apr 2019 16:25:56

Can we please have the ability to REMOVE the option for the user to export hidden tabs. Maybe within a Report's Settings (or even tennant Admin Portal) have a setting for "Allow/disable users to export hidden tabs"

The issue i'm facing is that a number of my reports have hidden tabs that contain either tooltips, drill-through pages or WIP pages and I hate the thought that users of my reports can see those pages if they choose to "include hidden pages' in an export to PDF or PowerPoint.

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Johan Werner on 20 May 2021 06:31:29

RE: Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

Needs to be fixed

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Blake Thomas on 12 Jan 2021 19:49:15

RE: Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

I need the ability to export hidden. I believe this feature and also the feature of subscribing (same concept) should be controlled within PBI desktop, not in service. If a report creator needs to hide the data they can, if they want it exposed they can expose it. This is very frustrating from a UX experience, because report users may have a hidden page that they need a snapshot of on a regular basis. Unhiding the page would be confusing from a design perspective. -- We need the control. Not have the feature decided for us.

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David PROVOST on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:48

RE: Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

Amazing ! This definitely prevents us to build neat PDF from report, as tooltip pages are not designed for rendering without a particular context. We alsao have some hidden debug pages, and a version control / tech documentation pages... don't want thousands of end-users to see this !!!

Duplicate of https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/32953411-export-to-powerpoint-hide-hidden-pages

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Detlev Detlev on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:56

RE: Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

The highly undesirable option to export hidden reports to powerpoint (among others) also gives end users the option to display the hidden report IN powerbi.com since it exploids the otherwise fairly unknown reportID. Very very strange. This should be fixed in my opinion.

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Bao Vo on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:07

RE: Ability to Disable option for user to export hidden tabs (PDF & PowerPoint)

Please include this in the upcoming update! It is frustrated to keep having people come and ask what are those hidden pages for...