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Dynamically Fetch and Display Documents in Power BI
Hi v-priyankata. I think the answer to my original question is that there's not really a way to accomplish what I am trying to do natively within Power BI. Perhaps a Power App application or a PowerAutomate flow can be integrated to accomplish the task, but that's not an option that is open to me at the present time.
smalltownbear If you include the links to the PDF in the data table, you can set that column to be a URL. That then allows you to include the column in a Table visual as a small "link" icon. Add hyperlinks (URLs) to a table or matrix - Power BI | Microsoft Learn. If you need it to be dynamic, you could create a measure to do the same. This will then link out to the PDF file and open it in whatever default program the user's system uses for viewing PDFs.
Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, the only way to access the document is through a secured endpoint so I don't think just a bare URL link would do the trick as I would need some way of putting the access token in the header before making the call.
smalltownbear Then I would look at building a Power App or Power Automate flow which you could then invoke using the Power App or Power Automate visual.