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blndspt
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Subscriptions with "Parameters"

Hey guys,

 

I'm a little embarrassed to even ask this question.  I've built a ton of reports in the past in SSRS, and know subscriptions therein very well.  I have a few dozen reports and dashboards on which I'm creating subscriptions to deliver dynamic data.  After googling high and low I'm not finding this concept to be very obvious!??  Here is a very simple example - you make a date range slicer (or a relative date).  I'd like to create a subscription for a report that filters by a dynamic range depending on the subscription (as in "the last 3 days" or "this week").  

 

Am I simply missing something in my lack of success on finding out how to do that?  I would have thought that subscriptions would behave similarly to SSRS reports with parameters.

 

Sorry if this is obvious.  Thanks everyone.

Scott

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Anonymous
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Isn't much point in a subscription if all it's going to do is send the same data - Microsoft should at least have included a "default" date on a date slicer for a subscription to begin with.

GilbertQ
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Hi there

Currently subscriptions cannot include parameters.

What you create in the dashboard or report is what is sent out in the subscription.

You can vote for an idea on https://ideas.powerbi.com




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Wow seriously?  That seems like a pretty core feature of a subscription to me!  I'm shocked.  I have no way of customizing a subscription with a simple parameter - I have to duplicate reports to send them 2 different ways?  Yowser.  Is there some kind of work around folks have used?  My god all I wanted to do was send a daily and weekly report with the same report using "last 1 day" versus "last 7 days" in a subscription. 

You can use Paginated reports which is available in Power BI Premium where you can pass parameters.

Otherwise you can vote for an idea on https://ideas.powerbi.com




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