scheduled export of a report to pdf

[s_opthof]

It would be nice if there is an option to have a scheduled export of a report to PDF. A nice to have feature would be to directly e-mail it to people so they are being notified of the latest report.

[amartin7]

In addition, the scheduled email should contain a link to the up-to-date report, and if the report contains tables of data then the email should have an attachment of the PDF and excel file.

[rusd_robc]

Agreed. Scheduled exports and delivery options like in SSRS is needed.

[fbcideas_migusr]

Add more robust features to scheduling period (snapshot, caching etc...). Something similar to data driven subscriptions in SSRS. I use reporting services for a lot of things where I could use power BI, but the lack of scheduling tools especially email delivery is a reason I don't

[miljan_simovic]

Main reason why we gave up from Power BI. If this or export to excel was there, we would use it for sure...

[eiji_miyakawa]

This function is key to decide whether we use PowerBI for our service. For retail and chain restaurant business, respective store manager and section manager need to receive daily report with their handheld device. Such devices are quite simple ones but can receive emails with PDF. To deliver our service to such customers, PowerBI forces us to create PDF and send report by human hand. Therefore, we are using other BI tools by only this reason.

[scott_schuler]

As a part of this, it would be nice to include a timestamp for when the report was printed.

[anthony_newell]

Sometimes there is a business need to distribute a hard copy of a report in PDF format

[kdav07]

In some of our dashboards we have claims data that we show from month to month. Due to the mass amount of data we get on a monthly basis we only archive 60 days worth of this data. instead of having a user export manually every month, it would be a real helpful to have the option to schedule an export of data for time/date, one time/reoccurring, monthly/weekly/daily and to be able to input the format type (pdf, excel, etc.).

[daniel_bartley6]

Defeats the purpose of interactive visualisations to hardcode them as pdf. SSRS is the tool to achieve this outcome.

[bchignell]

The ability to export the output of a report in a format others that do not have PowerBI can view. Re added as an idea as the previous identicle suggestion is marked as 'Complete' even though this functionality does not exist.