Automate running Power BI Report and export to PDF format

[Nicki]

Hi,

I have a slicer with 100 items, and a Power BI report.

The report needs to run for each item one time and after that export to pdf file.

It means the report  will run 100 times and there is 100 pdf files.

Do you have any experience about automate runing report and export to PDF format in Power BI?

Thanks

Nicki

[Greg_Deckler · Accepted solution]

@Nicki - For something like that you may need something like Power BI Robots. You can use the Power BI REST API to export a report to PDF but not sure you have much control over elements within the report.

[Nicki]

Thanks for your soultion.

I want to have this feature inside of Power BI. Power BI Robots is another software .

Is there any new update for this feature?

Thanks

Nicki

[KiranHosakote]

Hi @Nicki, 

Do take a look at BI Helper https://bihelper.tech/ to automate the generation of  PDF / PPTX reports from Power BI (Pro and Premium), with slicers and filters applied.

With BI Helper, you can select report pages to print, generate multi-page PDF / PPTX reports and email them to your users. BI Helper has an option to include matrix and table visuals as Excel files, and lots of other advanced features. 

BI Helper is simple to configure and use with your Power BI reports and dashboards. It is secure and scalable (hosted on AWS) and offers a 14 day free trial. Do test it and let me know if it works for you. 

Thanks, 

Kiran Hosakote

BI Helper

[Nicki]

Thank you for response.

We want to have this feature insdie of Power BI and no extra fee.

I will take a look at BI helper next week.