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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 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
Hi Anonymous ,
Would you kindly mind navigating to this page and opening up an issue in my GitHub repository? If you don't have a GitHub account, it's free, and if you don't want to make one, I can try and respond on here - the only issue is, it's much harder for me to see notifications here on the Power BI Community website and much easier for me to see notifications from GitHub!
As to your question that you asked in your post, I apologize ahead of time, as I'm not quite understanding what is going wrong with the extension. If you can provide me with a bit more clarity by opening up a GitHub issue, then I can assist you better in finding out if I have any bugs with the extension! I know you mentioned Power BI Server, but I'm not quite following you!
Thank you, and thanks so much for the encouragement. 😊 Seeing posts on here from users such as yourself really motivates me to to stay active in the open source community and push myself to learn new things... your feedback is most appreciated!
I look forward to hearing more from you!
By the way: if you don't have a GitHub account already and make one to create an issue in my repository as mentioned above, please make sure to click the Watching button on my repository's home page! Also please make sure to setup your notifications on your GitHub account! The reason I suggest that is because I've had several people post issues in the repository, but it seems that most of the time, whenever I respond to them, they don't respond back; I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they just don't see my responses.
Best Regards,
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 ?
Hi Anonymous !!
First of all, I really want to thank you for your hardwork, dedication and kindness to share this awesome solution!
I tried to use your latest GitHub release, but it seems not working for Power BI's Service New Look (neither refresh nor slideshow)
Do you know any workaround for this issue?
Thanks!!
Hi RoseAmS
Would you kindly mind going to my GitHub repository and opening up this issue there? That way, I can easily track it!
In the mean time, let me take a look and see if I can reproduce your error on my end. And thank you very much for the kind encouragement. 😊
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Daniel
Hi Anonymous !
Just opened the issue on your GitHub
Thanks for your help!!
Hope you and your family are well !
