Method to retrieve Report Description from Service

[jcs93]

Good afternoon,

I'm looking for a method to grab the Description of a report to populate a table to describe reports that users can request access to.  

Does anyone know if this is possible?  I've gone through the "Get Reports" API call, but it doesn't pull the report description, only report name.  I am not aware of any other API calls that may or may not work.

Thanks

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hi @jcs93 ,

At this time, there is no way to do that.  However, you could make an idea and post the URL to it here so we can vote on it as well.

I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would Mark this As a Solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!

[GStone · Accepted solution]

@collinq 's answer is no long valid. It is possible using the Scanner APIs

Please see the 2 answers given as solutions in this very similar question here

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Get-Description-attribute-of-Power-BI-Report-via-API/m-p/21...

[jcs93]

Thank you.  I've submitted the idea:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=bd50de67-7d2b-eb11-8441-501ac5249853

[collinq · Accepted solution]

Hi @jcs93 ,

At this time, there is no way to do that.  However, you could make an idea and post the URL to it here so we can vote on it as well.

I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would Mark this As a Solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!