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belisqui
Advocate IV
5 years ago

PowerBI Paginated Embedded Not Feasible

Hi All,

 

Something is very strange about embedding paginated reports.

 

Apparently you must use a Service Principal as a prerequisite. But when you look at the export limitations it says "Exporting a paginated report that has a Power BI dataset as its data source, is not supported for service principals."

 

Is exporting Paginated Reports from PowerBI datasets feasible at all?

 

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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
    Super User
    5 years ago

    Please clarify - are you concerned about embedding, or exporting?

    • belisqui's avatar
      belisqui
      Advocate IV
      5 years ago

      Currently I'm developing a "web portal" that will display Embedded Paginated Reports. The portal should have the Export functionality feature (API Call).  The documentation about how to enable emdeded Paginated Reports Embedded AND How to add an Export call to it is a bit misleading.

       

      Apparently you can only use Service Principal for Paginated embeded, but acourding to the docs it doens't allow exporting via Service principal?!

      • v-lionel-msft's avatar
        v-lionel-msft
        Community Support
        5 years ago

        Hi belisqui ,

         

        If your data source is a dataset in Power BI Service, service principals are not supported.

        So for the export functionality feature , I think you may need to take other authentication.

         

        Best regards,
        Lionel Chen

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