Forum Discussion
Export to File for Power BI Reports
It requires premium because you can really consume a ton of resources if you were to generate files for a number of different reports and users. MS cannot bear that processing cost as a single PPU license could be used to generate thousands of pages a week, or even a day, and emailed to dozens of users, even those that have no Power BI license.
With Premium, you are renting the entire capacity, and 100% of your users can use the Power BI Free license. You do whatever you want to do with it. If you want to turn it into a report bursting canon, that is up to you.
But it makes no financial sense for that to happen on the shared capacities of Pro and PPU. It is one of the few things that PPU cannot do that Premium can, and financially, it makes sense it is set up that way.
It turns out that I was the problem...
Given that I have Power BI Premium-Per-User and a Fabric trial set up, I missed the step of assigning my Workspace to the Trial Capacity (Power BI -> Admin Portal -> Workspaces -> select the workspace, click the elipses and select "Reassign Workspace" -> Select Trial
My workflow now sends me the image of the Power BI report I wanted.
Thanks,
Luuk
I think a new Fabric capacity might be a possibility. The lowest capacties are just a few hundred a month and that is if you leave them on all of the time. You can turn them off. I am honestly not sure what what level you need to allow for bursting like you want, but it is worth spinning up a F capactity in trial mode during the preview to test.
edhans - thanks for the reply.
I do currently have the Fabric trial running, as well as Power BI Premium-Per-User. I have Azure Blob Storage running, and have created basic flows that will respond to a keyword in Teams to pull an image from it. What is not working - per my original post - is the Export to File for Power BI Reports. I had hoped that I had checked all the boxes to at least try it out - but perhaps I am still missing something?