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Export to PDF from Service not respecting Current Value selections
After further research, it looks like this is affecting reports that use buttons linked to bookmarks to hide/unhide visuals. For example, some reports have multiple tables on a page, and a user uses the bookmark to select which table they'd like to see. Filters are respected on export before the user selects a button, but not after. Other reports are now exporting as expected.
had a simlar problem here. After some investigation with a colleauge, we noticied that I had the Report option to 'Allow Users to Change Filter Types' selected on my desktop. When I unchecked this option, republished the report and updated the App, the filters were respected as they should be.
Very strange affect, but it worked for us :)
That seemed to solve about 80% of my problem, thank you! That option was already deselected in my report, but I toggled it on and off, and now most of my bookmarks are exporting as expected. There is only one bookmark that is still displaying the default view and values when exporting.
For context, this report is a single page with 6 buttons at the top. Each button is tied to a bookmark that essentially unhides a different table. The only difference between these tables is the dimension in the row context.
I have the same problem but with no bookmarks and the filter option unchecked.
Basically the export to PDF option ignores all filters.
I wish Microsoft would get their **bleep** together and fix issues to features they have already rolled out. Notice the decomposition tree they rolled out works great on the desktop and barely at all online.
Yeh, it can be pretty annoying alright!
On the bright side, there was a fix released by Microsoft on the 22nd of November for this exact issue. I just happened to be on the support page for another reason, and caught the message while it was there.
Since this date, I haven't have an problems with the export to PDF/PowerPoint functions, but if you're still having problems it might be worth republishing your report with the latest version of Power BI Desktop etc., and just making sure your App Workspace is the 'new' kind.
Hope this helps anyway 😀
