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Helper IIDisplaying Power BI Web Reports As SlideShow
Currently, it's not supported to display report pages as SlideShow in browser. But you can export the report into PowerPoint for SlideShow purpose. For more details, please see: Export Power BI report to PowerPoint (Preview)
Regards,
Anonymous and anyone else who is interested:
I have worked very hard the past week or so and have been teaching myself HTML, Javascript, and CSS. I have completely overhauled the entire extension, and have turned it from a one-click, non-stop extension to a fully operational popup with:
- Play button
- Pause/Stop button
- All timing options
This will be tremendously better than the current version of the extension. I am about to commit it to my Github page (see above links) very soon. I'll post here again when I update it.
Best Regards,
Daniel
To all who are concerned, I have finally finished overhauling the Chrome Extension. I have redesigned the extension into a fully functional popup with a play/pause buttons as well as drop downs to separate the refresh time and slide time intervals!
It's really cool! 🙂 Check it out on my Github:
https://github.com/DMiradakis/Power-BI-Real-Time-Slideshow
Best Regards,
Daniel
Anonymous thanks for this awesome extension. One question.
Please how do you select which power bi reports to play in the slideshow?
To answer your question:
- Navigate to a Power BI Report in the Power BI Service and actually open a report.
- Upon opening a report in the Power BI Service, the small popup in the upper right-hand corner will become enabled where you can start the slideshow.
However, I have an additional suggestion for you: navigate to the Release tab on my GitHub repository and download Pre-Release v2.0.0-alpha .
I highly recommend you do this. Why?
- I completely reformatted the popup with GitHub's own primer.css, so it looks x100 more presentable.
- I fixed a bug where clicking the Play/Stop button would close the popup but not affect the slideshow.
- This release now supports... (drum roll please): IMPORT MODE POWER BI REPORTS. Yes, that's right. Both Import-Mode and Direct Query/Live Connection reports are now supported in this extension.
Essentially, in building this extension, I taught myself:
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- jQuery
- Chrome's API
- Asynchronous programming
- MutationSummary
- jQuery-Mutation-Summary
The extension is now capable of some incredible feats, such as:
- Detecting your connectivity mode.
- Pressing the appropriate refresh button for your respective connectivity mode (if you didn't know, different connectivity modes require different refresh buttons to be pressed in the Power BI Service's user interface).
- Determinging when you navigate to a different report or a different workspace (even if the same report exists in two or more workspaces, it is still able to tell the difference).
You are probably aware that there is a refresh limit for Pro users and Premium users both in Power BI. However, there is no refresh limit for refreshes that are initialized inside the Power BI Service's user interface (😉). So if you know some JQuery and use those two Mutation repositories I linked above, you can change the webpage's DOM and listen for those changes and then respond to them. It is quite advanced but totally awesome to pull off. The result is Pre-Release v2.0.0-alpha.
Check it out.
-Daniel
Anonymous
Amazing work and support.. Thanks a lot for your time and dedication
Question - We are now using PBI Server, but it the function is not working anymore, any suggestions please ?
