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TimWilliam
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

Automating Exporting PDFs with slicers

Hi,   I will try and explain as best what I am trying to see is even possible. I have read about power automate and different ways of exporting pdf's. But I am confused as to the solution and even ...
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TimWilliam's avatar
TimWilliam
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

Hi,

Happy to use power automate. Havent got a bought licence of power automate but I can purchase if I know it will work, I have a pro bi licence do I need a pro automate licence? I dont know if you or someone can point me to the steps to get it working on automate as I did mess about before and wasnt succesful.

 

Or do i need to go on an automate forum?

 

thanks,

 

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BM4291
Resolver I
4 years ago

The principle will undoubtedly work but a lot will depend on your specific organisational context i.e. if you're using SharePoint or Office 365, that can be the source of your 'list' whereas SQL/Oracle would carry additional costs that aren't strictly necessary (though this is what I tend to use).

 

The basic actions are here: Export and email a report with Power Automate - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

The additional work you'd need to do is to test passing the values as parameters in the URL and then re-creating the equivalent in the PowerAutomate action.

This post here looks to cover it broadly: Filter & Email Power BI Report pages using Power Automate & Excel – Wise Data Decisions