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Good morning, all! I am absolutely brand new to the world of Power BI, but not to BI reporting itself. The question I have:
Is it possible to schedule a job/report to run at a certain time, then export as a PDF to a specific folder location within our network?
Currently, the reporting software we use allows me to take the output PDF from a scheduled job and save it in a folder to use in our morning meetings. I just specify the path to the folder as a parameter, and we have a 'mailer script' (for lack of a better term) that will pick the document out of its output folder in the reporting system, and drop it in the morning report folder.
I've done some Google searching, but haven't really found a definite answer.
Thanks in advance for any help! Have a great day!
Scott
Solved! Go to Solution.
Paginated Reports (aka SSRS reports) hosted on Power BI Report Server
Yes, it is possible.
PDF via url access: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/url-access-parameter-reference?view=sql-serv...
Scheduling by using Subscriptions:
Go to any report on the server *using browser*, right click the report, click manage.
Select the "Subscriptions" on the left menu, create subscription to your needs
You can deliver the report to Windows file share
You can deliver the report as email, with attachment as PDF, Excel and other formats
Note: You can do the same steps via SSMS also, but quick way is using the browser
Paginated Reports (aka SSRS reports) hosted on Power BI Report Server
Yes, it is possible.
PDF via url access: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/url-access-parameter-reference?view=sql-serv...
Scheduling by using Subscriptions:
Go to any report on the server *using browser*, right click the report, click manage.
Select the "Subscriptions" on the left menu, create subscription to your needs
You can deliver the report to Windows file share
You can deliver the report as email, with attachment as PDF, Excel and other formats
Note: You can do the same steps via SSMS also, but quick way is using the browser
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