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niki_b
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5 years ago
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Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

Hi all,

 

I work with reports that my company embeds in our web application. I was able to give an option to "Export Power BI report as PDF" in the application. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/export-to 

 

I was hoping to embed a dashboard. How can I embed a dashboard? If yes, is it possible to export the embedded dashboard as pdf in order to be able to print?

Also, I was going through all the articles about how the printed dashboards are not well paginated. Is there an update about that?

 

Thanks in advance.

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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
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    5 years ago

    If you worry about pagination then you probably want to use paginated reports instead of dashboards.  Neither dashboards nor reports give any guarantee on rendering or pagination.

    • niki_b's avatar
      niki_b
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      5 years ago

      I tried to use paginated reports but I realised that Power BI Report Builder does not provide the insane features that are available through Power BI desktop. I want to be able to have the user experience from power BI along with perfect pagination. Am I asking for a lot?

  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
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    5 years ago

    yes, yes you are.  Have a look at the Paginated Report visual that was introduced recently in Power BI, but it will still not give you what you want. 

     

    You have to make a hard choice - responsive design or pixel perfect rendering. You can't have both.

  • niki_b's avatar
    niki_b
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    5 years ago

    I think I will go for dashboards for now. Is there a way to embed dashboards in the web application for customers?

    How do I get embed token for dashboards just like we do for reports!