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Ajay
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Fixes to Power BI Pro License Required Dialogs

A Power BI Pro license is required to view dashboards or reports that contain Pro content. In some cases, our enforcement of this licensing logic caused confusion about whether content was Pro or not...
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mim
Advocate V
9 years ago

djnww I know about Tableau server cost, I am talking about  the combination of Tableau desktop/reader.

 

here is my take, I think this whole new BI solutions are overrated, why really every one needs real time, web based solution, from my experience not all users need this kind of sophistications, 90 % are happy with static PDF, I struggled with users just to tell them how to click on a slicer.

 

I am just a business users, and what i am pushing for the next BI solution is SSAS Tabular Standard and Excel as a visualisation layer, and if some users want to see those fancy cross highliting charts they can use PowerBI desktop.

 

ps : PowerBI desktop do not print, show stopper!!, Tableau reader do print.

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djnww
Impactful Individual
9 years ago

Hi mim,

 

Agree about the printing bit. Printing in Power BI Desktop is in development. Hopefully it comes soon.

 

Cheers,

D

  • mim's avatar
    mim
    Advocate V
    9 years ago

    djnww do you have any inside knoweldge that it coming, it will be a fantastic news

  • djnww's avatar
    djnww
    Impactful Individual
    9 years ago
    I do have some inside knowledge. However the print from Desktop feature has 3000 votes in the Power BI ideas forum. It's under review and they had a survey about what features we wanted.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    For the moment, the only way I see to share dashboards It's by the method "Publish to web".
    But It isn't a safe way.

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    Daemetius
    Helper II
    9 years ago




    Anonymous wrote:

    For the moment, the only way I see to share dashboards It's by the method "Publish to web".
    But It isn't a safe way.

    I was thinking the same thing. 

     

    What I don't understand is why do users have to pay extra for something that comes included in a product that as a user I'm already paying for? I rather have other limitations than the collaboration/sharing feature removed as a free user. It's the center piece of why people (at least in my organization) were attracted to. using it. But now that we are basically forced to pay for subscription just to have sharing capabilities enabled, it feels like alternatives for PowerBi are in the works.