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kyoung83
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1 month ago

Suggestion: Subscription Email Enhancements - Customization

In our business, we send out "status reports" containing data from dashboards. I have tried the subscription/email summary for a Power BI dashboard recently. The summary email is great but where you are listing out numerical metrics, it just jams it all as a readable paragraph, and is somewhat difficult to skim and could be formatted for much easier readability.

 

Suggestion/Enhancement: PowerBI builders/users could customize/format the summary email that comes out from the dashboard as well as add in any notes that you want. (from the main activity setting it up, not the individual recipients of the emails) Could be something like click/drag elements into a format builder, and then it can populate the data automatically. 

 

The subscription is a great thing and if we could actually use it this way, we could realize:

- No more dist list monitoring - users can subscribe/drop on their own; no need to chase people to manually add to the email distribution

- MUCH saved time not having to recreate a better formattted summary email (to manually send), instead of letting Power BI automate these emails

- Users can get updates as much/when they want (per subscription preferences) - currently we will send only daily or weekly emails since, again, it's a manual process 

- The real time linking back to the dashboard is great (love that a thumbnail shows up in the email). Currently again, we only can include URLs or copy/paste in actual snaps to show visuals.

 

Thanks for considering my input.