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Visuals Stop Working on Suscriptions
- 7 months ago
Hi majimenez ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.
Power BI subscriptions do not send a real report view. They send a static image snapshot rendered by a headless Service renderer. Email subscriptions send a server‑rendered snapshot of one report page on a schedule. That snapshot is generated with the page’s authored state and the subscription’s chosen filter state not your interactive session.
Please try alternative workarounds.
1. Replace Advanced Card with native visuals like Matrix, Table and Native cards.2. Convert calendar to a Matrix, your calendar grid can be recreated using Rows--> Week, Columns-->DayOfWeek and Values--> Accident Flag. Then apply Conditional formatting (background color), Matrix renders correctly in subscriptions.
3. Use Power Automate instead of Subscriptions.
Power Automate --> Export report page as image or PDF. Attach PDF to email and Send manually. This uses the report export engine, not the subscription engine. It correctly renders advanced visuals.
Note: Subscriptions send a snapshot, not an interactive page; multi‑page reports require multiple subscriptions. Large canvases and complex visuals can exceed snapshot/email limits. On-prem Report Server doesn’t support subscriptions for PBIX reports only paginated.
Please refer below links.
Email subscriptions for reports and dashboards in the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
FAQs about Troubleshoot subscribing to dashboards and reports - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Troubleshoot Visualizations in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Regards,
Dinesh
Hi majimenez ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.
Power BI subscriptions do not send a real report view. They send a static image snapshot rendered by a headless Service renderer. Email subscriptions send a server‑rendered snapshot of one report page on a schedule. That snapshot is generated with the page’s authored state and the subscription’s chosen filter state not your interactive session.
Please try alternative workarounds.
1. Replace Advanced Card with native visuals like Matrix, Table and Native cards.
2. Convert calendar to a Matrix, your calendar grid can be recreated using Rows--> Week, Columns-->DayOfWeek and Values--> Accident Flag. Then apply Conditional formatting (background color), Matrix renders correctly in subscriptions.
3. Use Power Automate instead of Subscriptions.
Power Automate --> Export report page as image or PDF. Attach PDF to email and Send manually. This uses the report export engine, not the subscription engine. It correctly renders advanced visuals.
Note: Subscriptions send a snapshot, not an interactive page; multi‑page reports require multiple subscriptions. Large canvases and complex visuals can exceed snapshot/email limits. On-prem Report Server doesn’t support subscriptions for PBIX reports only paginated.
Please refer below links.
Email subscriptions for reports and dashboards in the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
FAQs about Troubleshoot subscribing to dashboards and reports - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Troubleshoot Visualizations in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Regards,
Dinesh
Hi majimenez ,
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Regards,
Dinesh