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Ike0911
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2 years ago
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Issue Printing Dashboard

Good morning all, So I was wondering if there's a way when printing the dashboard to Not print the top part of the page and also to get rid of the extra white space at the bottom of the page, so y...
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  • ibarrau's avatar
    ibarrau
    2 years ago

    Hi. Sadly there is not way to adjust that view. You can try changing the orientation of the tiles, but the print view for a dashboard is automatically generated. When printing I usually suggest building a report preparared for that, like adjusting the page size to A4 papper values. Here you have an article about it in case you are interested: https://blog.ladataweb.com.ar/post/687684862030839808/powerbi-informes-preparados-para

    I hope that helps,

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ibarrau
Super User
2 years ago

Hi. Sadly there is not way to adjust that view. You can try changing the orientation of the tiles, but the print view for a dashboard is automatically generated. When printing I usually suggest building a report preparared for that, like adjusting the page size to A4 papper values. Here you have an article about it in case you are interested: https://blog.ladataweb.com.ar/post/687684862030839808/powerbi-informes-preparados-para

I hope that helps,

  • Ike0911's avatar
    Ike0911
    Regular Visitor
    2 years ago

    Hi Ibarrau,
    Thank you for that information. 
    WOW that makes no sense. 
    I can export the PowerBI Desktop item to PDF and print it just fine and it's actually readable. 
    MS needs to address this. otherwise the dashboard feature of PowerBi Service is useless to me

    Thanks again for the information 🙂 

    Regards,
    IKE

    • ibarrau's avatar
      ibarrau
      Super User
      2 years ago

      Well, dashboards have the feature to keep tiles up to date, auto refresh. That means they are ideal for realtime analytics or for a TV adaptation because you don't need to F5 to check the last refresh changes, it will change automatically.

      Printing, I would go with power bi reports. Some people would pick paginated reports too.

      Regards,

  • Ike0911's avatar
    Ike0911
    Regular Visitor
    2 years ago

    Hi Ibarrau,
    This what it looks like exported from PoerBI Desktop as 11 X 17 Landscape:

    Now this is readable and usable. 

    The whole premise of wanting to use PowerBI service was to limit the disc space usage on local machine of course 🙂 

    Thanks again.