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Akandis2
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Taking long to Export paginated report to file using the SDK

Hello all,

 

Currently I'm working in a solution where from a Model-Driven App the user clicks a button to generate a 1 page simple report that automatically will be downloaded in the device. For this we are using the Premium Capacity but we think is not that the problem because I we do the export file from the Portal and it takes 10 seconds but when going to the SDK is where the problem comes...

 

For that we are using this approach -> Export Power BI embedded analytics paginated reports API - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Problem

The problem is that when the user clicks the button it take long and brakes the user experience. We notice that by default there is 30 seconds expire policy so we try to make it less and do the retry each 5 seconds but this get the report variable as blank...

 

The problem we are facing is identified in the Step 2 - Polling.

 

Questions

  • Is there something by default making 30 seconds a minimum retry?
  • Is there a way to make it faster?
  • Is there any way to do it sync? This will perform better?

 

@Tapashsharma @cottrera @lbendlin @BobLang any idea? 😀

 

 

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Anonymous
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HI @Akandis2,

AFAIK, current you can't do customize with the export features. It will proceed on the backend and pause it quickly or setting a short export timeout may break the exporting operations and get blank output.

For this scenario, I'd like to suggest you submit an idea for improving the export feature usage.

Microsoft Power BI ideas

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Hey @Anonymous thanks for you answer. In fact it's not a timeout, my wrong, it's the retry. I just update the quetion. Do you think it's happening the same?

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