Sharing and Subscribing in Power BI

[Nate_Laning]

While still a Power BI novice, I have quite a bit of experience with Tableau. One drawback of Tableau is the inablity for a user in my organization to subscribe to a dashboard that contains only a table of data, and receive that table as a spreadsheet in their email inbox on a regular basis. They can receive a PDF image of the dashboard/table, but not the actual data.

Is there any such functionality with Power BI? Thank you.

[christinepayton]

In addition to paginated reports, the other way to attach data to emails is using Power Automate, but the process is "some assembly required". 

[Nate_Laning]

Thanks, @christinepayton. We're using a combo of Tableau and Power Automate currently, but we'd like to move away from it. I completely understand your comment about "some assembly required." 😁

[GilbertQ]

Hi @Nate_Laning 

If you want to have the actual data you could create a Power BI Paginated report. Then when they subscribe to the report they could ask to include the attachment in Excel or CSV.

What are paginated reports in Power BI? - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

[Nate_Laning]

Thank you, @GilbertQ. I've never experimented with paginated reports. After reading the article, I'm somewhat concerned about the data sources available for those. Most of our data is in Snowflake, and I didn't see that listed as an option. I suppose it's worth looking into, though.