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Scheduling Dashboard with Power Automate
We have some dashboards published in Power BI service with RLS configured. We now need to schedule the dashboards to user's email as PDF attachment on daily basis. This should respect the RLS configured for individual user. The dashboards contain multiple pages and all pages should be sent in one attachment file. We have Power BI Pro license for the users.
Need to know the following:
1. Is Power Automate mandatory for the above requirement?
2. What are the SKUs/services/licenses do we need to purchase?
Thanks
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Hi. No Power Automate is not mandatory because it's only using the Power Bi Rest API, so you can use that writting, for example, a python code. You need a dedicated capacity in order to export to file with the API.
I really don't know how to handle it with Power Automate, I can show you the doc for the specific endpoint for doing this. It's this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/reports/export-to-file-in-group
Building this request for using RLS can be very very tricky. So be careful when writing the code. Make sure you test it a lot.
Just in case consider reading the limitations before doing it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/export-to#considerations-and-limitations
I hope that helps,
