Print and Export Embedded Reports through REST APIs

[Gajendra]

Now that we have a great embed report/tile feature that can be used to embed reports/tiles in custom apps, it would be great to have some REST APIs that can facilitate printing and download of the reports into either PDF/Excel etc.

[jeffrey_b_reed]

Critical use case for my business. Scenario: 1. Build a report with global filters to demonstrate operational or business insights. 2. Auto-email a "hard copy" (PDF) of the report to appropriate audiences for discussion. Think sending a custom report to a specific business or operation line to show financials, service uptime, customer usage of specific features, etc. SSRS has a similar feature already in the UI where someone can select a specific filter and select a audience to receive the email. Having an "export to PDF" option in the REST APIs would enable automation of emails whenever new data is available.

[gabrielius1]

Also exporting dashboards to PDFs via API would be nice as well.

[fbcideas_migusr]

Any updates if the REST API is available for printing/exporting the report to PDF o that the scenario mentioned by Jeffrey Reed below ("Auto Email a hard-copy" (PDF) of the report to appropriate audience) is addressed?

[micham]

My customer asks to be able programmatically apply the filter to reports (e.g. via country and division) and then automate the report generation to PDF and mailing to audiences. Note this is different from email subscriptions for reports that are only for changes to reports and do not admit setting filters nor on demand generation Michal

[tone_shelby1]

Hello, This is marked as planned as of 12/2016 and the date since the request of this was 3/25/2016. Could you tell us please when this is planned for as we have clients and companies asking for updates. Thanks MUCH!

[bing_wu]

This is an extremely important feature. We have a product in which reports can be printed to pre-configured printers. When embedding Power BI in our product, if reports can be saved as PDF, then PDF can be sent to pre-configured printers to print. If not, pre-configured printers can't be used at all thus causing backward compatibility issues. Therefore, without the feature, it would be really hard for us to adopt Power BI.

[evgeny_popov]

When this feature is finally will be delivered? Common guys, one year in planned status is too much even for Microsoft!

[brian_bewley]

Anyone from Microsoft have an update on this "Planned" feature? There are many of us waiting anxiously...

[rockking151]

Any updates?

[chass]

While not exactly what you are looking for the api does exist to download the pbix file https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt826236.aspx