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AndyWald
Advocate I
6 years agoGenerate a PDF per parameter value in Power BI Paginated Reports
I am creating a Power BI Paginated Report with various metrics for a single customer based on selecting it as a parameter. Is there a way to automatically generate a PDF per parameter value? We hav...
mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
6 years agoInstead of making Customer a parameter, just set up a Group on it at the parent level and set it up to do a page break on it. That will result in a 1000-page pdf. If you want 1000 individual pdfs, you'll need to set up a Flow to iterate over a list/table of Customers and make a call to export the paginated report for each (not sure how performant that will be).
Regards,
Pat
AndyWald
Advocate I
6 years agoThanks Pat!
For better or worse, we do need separate PDFs for each customer in order to share. I will work on creating a Flow. I was hoping there was a more straight forward solution that I was missing.
- kristy_cph3 years agoRegular Visitor
Can you print into one giant pdf and then use python to parse it into individual pdfs for each customer?