topic Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL in Report Server

How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:48:01 GMT

Hi All,

Is it possible to export a rdl report to Excel file using URL link?

Regards,

Jimmy

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

d_gosbell — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:30:25 GMT

Yes, you would just add the rs:Format=Excel url parameter. There are a bunch of different url access parameters that you can use see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/url-access-parameter-reference?view=sql-server-ver15

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:05:19 GMT

Thanks for your resply.

Is there any setting needed in the server setting, I have added the paraameter but it did not work.

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

d_gosbell — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:41:54 GMT

No, there are no changes to server settings required. Did you use the url format from the documentation link?

eg.

https://<server>/ReportServer?/<reportfolder>/<reportname>&rs:Format=PDF

Note that you need to use the Webservice url (/reportserver by default), not the portal url (/reports by default)

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:09:42 GMT

Hi,

Many thanks, it works now. Despite the web service url, the folder does not need to include the <home> folder.

Jimmy

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:35:01 GMT

Hi Guy,

I discovered that if I used rs:format parameter to export as Excel file, the file format is different from the one that I selected from menu bar. Did anybody have idea, please help?

Regards,

Jimmy

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

d_gosbell — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:50:42 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
I discovered that if I used rs:format parameter to export as Excel file, the file format is different from the one that I selected from menu bar. Did anybody have idea, please help?

What sort of differences are you seeing? There is only one Excel rendering engine in the product, in theory the menu bar option is just calling in to the rs:format=Excel url endpoint.

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:35:34 GMT

When I export the file with rs:format=EXCEL parameter, the file extension is '.xls'. However, if I export using menu bar, the file extension is '.xlsx'. Although they still can be opened by MS Excel program, I want to know if there is a possible solution to export in '.xlsx' by either way

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

d_gosbell — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:47:38 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

When I export the file with rs:format=EXCEL parameter, the file extension is '.xls'. However, if I export using menu bar, the file extension is '.xlsx'. Although they still can be opened by MS Excel program, I want to know if there is a possible solution to export in '.xlsx' by either way

Ooh that's really bad. There is an option missing from the documentation for rs:Format=EXCELOPENXML which is what you need to use to generate XLSX files. This should fix your issue and I've left a comment on the documentation page so hopefully microsoft fix this omission.

Re: How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:14:30 GMT

Thanks.