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Advocate IPowerBI - Exporting reports to PDF or PowerPoint losing filtration on report.
Morning,
It appears that something has changed within the functionality of the exporting within the PowerBI service area.
Issue
Use the export as PowerPoint or PDF is removing any filtration the users have on the exported file.
Expected
Whatever filters the user has applied on the page should be replicated within the exported file in either PowerPoint or PDF.
Is this a known issue or a new feature?
Also, we are using the "Current Values" as the export option.
I just ran a quick test and export to PDF with respecting filters appears to be fixed. This issue has happened at least once or twice per year for the last 3 years.
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we4getI've raised a support ticket on this - 2309260050000376
- mlong
The issue of Power BI not respecting slicers when exporting to PDF is still persitant as of 10/09/2023. This has been ongoing since 10/02/2023. Raising a new support ticket.
A workaround we've found is to disable the option "Don't allow end user to save filters on this report." With this option disabled, filters are honoured by the PDF export.
Microsoft closed our support ticket saying for now this was expected behavior.
Same problem here, with some value the export to pdf function is working and with other not it seems a bug not an expected behaviour
jacschZAInterestingly this only seems to happen if there is a Bookmark created. If you remove the Bookmark from the report, it also then works.
Mentioned in the below old post.
But see the fix coming the 15th.
https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Export-to-PDF-from-Service-not-respecting-Current-Value/m-p/796214- mlong
I just ran a quick test and export to PDF with respecting filters appears to be fixed. This issue has happened at least once or twice per year for the last 3 years.
- pmreis
Most Valuable Professional
Hi Kraken
After you select PDF or PPT + Embed an Image, you will see the prompt to specify if the export with Current or Default values. In order to keep the user selections please use "Current Values"
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KrakenSorry I didnt mention it. Yes they are using the current values option as they always have done.
- we4get
This is also impacting us. How do we get this picked up as a new issue?
Thanks
- we4get
Hi all,
Just received this from MS - https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/en-SG/support/
Looks like fix planned for 15th 😀
