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Customizable Subscription Email Template

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MR on 26 Sep 2019 13:52:19

As corporate users (30k+ employees), instead of receiving subscriptions generated on Microsoft template, containing the Microsoft logotype, corporate information etc., we’d like to be able to modify/customize the email subscription template. Furthermore we’d like to be consistent with our corporate communication framework, including the look’n’ feel.

It means we’d like to be able WHAT the mail content will contain and HOW it will be formatted as well.

Comments (29)

on 02 Dec 2022 00:42:30

RE: Customizable Subscription Email Template

At the moment, users can subscribe to a report or a dashboard and receive an email which contains a link to the report and an image of the report.

It would look so much better if you were able to configure the email layout, much like you can in Reporting Services.

on 02 Dec 2022 00:42:30

RE: Customizable Subscription Email Template

Provide the ability to customize emails that are sent to the scheduled recipients. Currently we do not have the ability to edit the content that is sent via power bi and the preview can be very difficult to read. Also, users would like to see the data at a quick glance instead of opening and accessing the report. It would be great to have the ability to send a fully customized email utilizing Paginated Reports (Report Builder) that would allow you to fully build out the email header, body (Power BI visuals, Data, etc.), footer. This would allow for email automation instead of an analyst building an email out based off of the data presented on our Power BI dashboards or other data sources.

Matthew Lamoreaux on 29 Nov 2022 19:12:12

RE: Customizable Subscription Email Template

Agree with previous comments--inability to customize subscription email severely limits what we can do with this feature. The Microsoft Power BI branding makes it look like a product marketing email, which results in really poor open rates by our corporate users who "asked to be added to distribution." We have other tools but they're not fully automated like this one. A softer blurb on the footer like the one in the OneNote email a page feature ("Created with OneNote.") would be more effective in promoting Power BI because more users would use the feature. Also, keep in mind these emails (when they're actually opened) take users to PowerBI dashboards--there's no better promo than expanding userbase!

Kevin Smolkowicz on 28 Oct 2022 11:55:35

RE: Customizable Subscription Email Template

The ability to customize the subscription email whether the display text of the FROM: or body of the email would be very useful. This would help overall communication effectiveness and help get people into the tool...instead of users thinking they just got another marketing email from Microsoft.