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rpm1984
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Truely export report or dashboard

I really appreciate the attempt that MS has made with the new print to pdf option. However, I am curious if this is a step they have made in that direction or if they feel this has solved the problem...
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rpm1984
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

You have to go to click print then select print to pdf in the drop down where your printer appears. It only does one page though not the whole report. So if your report is small or you just want a piece of it it will work for you. It doesnt help me because I have multiple pages.

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kcantor
Community Champion
10 years ago

Yes, print is nice for a small visual and export does okay for a report page. I was hoping to be able to print the report in its entirety using pdf. . This is inline with what I already had so I will keep waiting.

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    rpm1984
    Regular Visitor
    10 years ago

    Exactly I cant use it for the majority of my needs. If i could export the whole report to pdf this would be such a useful tool. Instead its pretty much a toy for me. It clearly wasnt designed to report to clients or take to meetings.

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      kcantor
      Community Champion
      10 years ago

      I agree and yet I disagree. I believe it was designed to report, its just that we are all a little too entrenched in having a paper copy. I believe that a smaller more agile report is better and yet TPTB want the long details . . . which can't be printed using the current functionality. Right now most of my reports work just fine in the digitial world but there are still a handful of people who absolutely must have the paper copy. That means I maintain two reports, one in BI and one in PowerPivot. But hey, at least they are easy to build and maintain.

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        Bjoern
        Continued Contributor
        10 years ago

        I agree with rpm1984 in the sense that we should get a "export complete report-file to PDF"-feature. Users will always need that. it is a necessity and needs to be on the roadmap. The "export data" feature is also a bit clumsy right now, I suppoes we will see some improvements there soon. It has also not been flagged as "implemented" in the "submit ideas" area (Look here).

        On the other hand I do not understand why e.g. the "publish excel screenshots to Power BI"-feature has been added. Let's wait and see. By now MS has my trust in putting the right things on the roadmap. And the Gartner guys share that view, I think.

         

        // And by the way: For dashboards it does work indeed (as they always only have one page ... :)).