Recurring Email thru Power BI?

Power BI is typically used to see beautiful and functional dashboards. These are viewed in a browser only. We had a client who wanted to share them through email, as an attachment, instead.

Our Biz Apps team created a new report in Power BI and added a tool called Power BI Report Builder. This tool allows the report to be converted, built in a printable format, aka ‘Paginated report.’

They converted the Power BI report to a Paginated Report then published it to the Power BI service. Then they used the ’Subscribe’ feature which allows a user to setup recurring customized emails with the attached printable report.

The recipients of the email need to have a Power BI Pro License assigned to their M365 account with some exceptions for Premium Capacity licenses. There’s a nice article in Microsoft Learn entitled ’Email subscriptions for reports and dashboards in the Power BI service.’ – CMW