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tzvikei's avatar
tzvikei
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback

This thread was created to gather feedback and communicate over the new Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feature in PowerBI.com.   Ask questions, suggest features, or leave general feedback. We will ...
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zblm's avatar
zblm
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi all,

 

I've Just exported a report to PowerPoint form Power BI Service, but when i check the ppt presentation, all of the charts are in one picture. Its like it just took a snapshot of each slide in power bi and exported the whole slide as a picture.

 

I exported the same report last night and it was showing all of the individual charts as seperate pictures.

Anyone else have this issue?

Fraukje's avatar
Fraukje
Advocate II
8 years ago

Hi zblm,

 

I also report this issue: when exporting a report as a powerpoint, each slide in the powerpoint now contains one picture instead of multiple objects (text/images) that could be selected independently before. All reports were based on the ability to delete part of the slide if needed, and now this has become impossible. Is there any update or known bug on the PowerBi app environment that is causing this?

 

Please help!

  • sirui_sun's avatar
    sirui_sun
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Hi - thanks for your feedback.

     

    This functionality is expected for now. As we've move through Preview for this featrure, we've updated it to export one image as part of ongoing reliability and performance improvements. 

     

    To help us prioritize the work of exporting individual image elements, please vote on the following idea, which I've just created:

    https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/32563081-export-to-powerpoint-with-individual-image-element

     

     

    • StuartMiller's avatar
      StuartMiller
      New Member
      8 years ago

      The change to a single image slide is a major loss of functionality for me and my client!  It has broken our dashboards.

      We were generating a slideshow that looped through slide decks for presentation on company TV screens as an easily-viewable dashboard.

      We had each individual tile graphic updating with an animation or pulse, so that we could draw attention to updates from slide to slide.

       

      PLEASE restore this functionality!!

       

      Either that, or provide us the ability to configure (like in PowerPoint) an animation on the tiles to update them.  Since there's no way to configure a smooth change from one filter value to another, this is at least a workaround.

      Consider how basic it should be to automatically (without manual interaction): update each tile to filter for a different time period (month to month, last 2 years, last 1 year, last 6 months, etc) or for different filter values (by product line or region, etc).

      With individual tile graphics, we could effectively do that.  Now we can do nothing.  And since PowerPoint just takes snapshots and doesn't dynamically retrieve updates, it has to be generated any time the data changes, and that just kills many uses entirely.  Especially since it appears you also killed the Office Docs App that used to allow us to embed tiles.

    • zblm's avatar
      zblm
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      Hi sirui_sun,

      Thanks for the reply. Is there any timeframe for when this feature will be out of preview? When this feature is out of preview will it revert back to the way it was?

       

      Many thanks