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sorcerorkazin
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3 years ago
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Serving PDFs From Report

Hello,   I have searched all I could and probably I missed something somewhere. To put it simply, what I am trying to achieve is to allow the user to search for documents based on a few columns fro...
PDF
pdf export
Power BI Report Server
SQL
SQL Server Database
  • josef78's avatar
    josef78
    3 years ago

    Your PDF's are stored in DB as blob?

     

    I think, there no built-in Power BI function to render PDF.

     

    You can try (re)develop custom visual as PDF viewer, with Save as option.

     

    But much more easily, you can develop very simple web aspx page, which will serve document based on URL link (with some Id or token) from connected DB. But for it you will need some IIS server (or another technology), which you can host on Azure cloud.

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josef78
Memorable Member
3 years ago

Your PDF's are stored in DB as blob?

 

I think, there no built-in Power BI function to render PDF.

 

You can try (re)develop custom visual as PDF viewer, with Save as option.

 

But much more easily, you can develop very simple web aspx page, which will serve document based on URL link (with some Id or token) from connected DB. But for it you will need some IIS server (or another technology), which you can host on Azure cloud.