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Uncertain about license limitation
Hi. I'm sorry but you can't automate this without a dedicated capacity. The cheap alternative would be doing it manually.
On the other hand, you can make it a loooooot cheaper with a pay as you go subscription with F2 in fabric. almost 300 usd a month is turned on 24 hours for the whole week. When creating your script for exporting to pdf, you could start resuming the capacity, export all and then pause the capacity. While the fabric capacity is paused, it won't change. If this exporting takes an hour, the capacity will cost $0.36/hour. That's like 10.8 usd by month.
You can check more about this pause/resume automation in this example that schedules the way in azure, but you can do it in a different place
https://blog.ladataweb.com.ar/post/721935191102341120/azure-pause-resume-fabric-embedded-o-aas-con
I hope that helps
Super UserHi. I'm sorry but you can't automate this without a dedicated capacity. The cheap alternative would be doing it manually.
On the other hand, you can make it a loooooot cheaper with a pay as you go subscription with F2 in fabric. almost 300 usd a month is turned on 24 hours for the whole week. When creating your script for exporting to pdf, you could start resuming the capacity, export all and then pause the capacity. While the fabric capacity is paused, it won't change. If this exporting takes an hour, the capacity will cost $0.36/hour. That's like 10.8 usd by month.
You can check more about this pause/resume automation in this example that schedules the way in azure, but you can do it in a different place
https://blog.ladataweb.com.ar/post/721935191102341120/azure-pause-resume-fabric-embedded-o-aas-con
I hope that helps
Thanks for the quick response! If I get the F2 Fabric capacity, do i still need Power Bi Pro or PPU to export to file with power automate? all I need to do is upload a template once in a while. currently we have no licenses at all
- ibarrau
Yes. You still need a Pro because Power BI Pro allows you to develop/create items. You still need to create a workspace in order to assign the fabric capacity. At least one power bi pro would be required.
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