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Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

niki_b — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 21:09:08 GMT

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.

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

lbendlin — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:12:00 GMT

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.

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

niki_b — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:11:05 GMT

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?

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

lbendlin — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:05:40 GMT

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.

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

niki_b — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:13:30 GMT

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!

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:31:04 GMT

Hi @niki_b,

I think you can take a look at power bi javascript API documents and they allow you to embedded these dashboards:

Embed a dashboard in Power BI embedded analytics | Microsoft Docs

Power BI embedded analytics Client APIs | Microsoft Docs
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Re: Print Power BI embedded dashboards.

niki_b — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:20:49 GMT

Thanks @Anonymous