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4 years ago
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Dashboard Visuals not loading on daily subscription

Hello, I'm having a recurrent issue with my dashboard visuals. This dashboard is sent daily  to higher ups in the org chart. Upon first receipt of the email each morning, the dashboard is loading ...
  • KiranHosakote's avatar
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous, 

     

    We faced this problem too. We tried to delete and recreate the subscription but it didn't work. We tweaked dataset refresh and subscription schedules and found that the fresh data doesn't reflect unless there is a one hour time lag between the two events. And same as your case, it ran trouble-free for weeks before the issue started. Weird!

     

    The solution was to configure the Power BI report on BI Helper https://bihelper.tech which sends out PDF / PPTx reports as email attachments. We built BI Helper for report bursting but our clients are increasingly using it for their email subscriptions too. 

     

    Tradeoff: BI Helper produces PDF / PPTX output and your users will get a flat file of the dashboard / report. However, we support multi-page PDFs unlike the Power BI Pro email subscription which is one page at a time. And you can email your reports to both internal and external users. 

     

    Do take a look at https://bihelper.tech and reach out to us if you need more information. 

     

    Kiran

    BI Helper