Firstly I just want to say that Microsoft seem to missing a trick - the paperless office is a myth and virtually all our customers want the ability to print (some A3/A2 size) Management reports. I managed to use the above project using NodeJS to facilitate printing by automating Chromium in a way similar to the link I posted earlier. As Microsoft are creating a browser based on this technology (see: Dev Edge) I don't think this deviates from most peoples concerns of browser compatibility issues - for example; CSS styling across browsers. So I'm guessing you could automate that if you needed to.

In essence what I did, was write this as a Serverless Function (AWS LAmbda in my case) using with entry point taking HTML (or DOM document) with the Power BI Token and config already embedded. It was just a case then using Puppeteer to create a page, inject the given document and export it as PDF (to a persistent file - though returning a file stream is equally valid). We did notice some issues with CSS - some fonts were too small and we had to manipulate some styles to get the printing 'just right'.

In testing we found this to be scaleable and performant. Scaleability was achieved by being serverless; horizontal scaling and not having to care about the number of Chromium instances being created. Performance was suprisingly quick - most functions took less than 5 seconds, that's including loading and running chromium and the overhead of API calls to api.powerbi.com to render the reports in web page.

The obvious thing here is that it requires development knowledge in order to create this. This is not something that can be done by a standard 'business team' - Microsoft should be able to offer this functionality relatively easily, but I guess it a case of priorities?

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Switching from PBI Embedded to Premium

September 5, 2019, 2:56 am

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We are thinking of purchasing a dedicated capacity for embdedding our PowerBI reports into one of our applications. If we went down this route and then at a later stage we wanted to upgrade to PowerBI Premium, what would be the implications of such a switch?

Would we be able to turn off and stop paying for the embedded capacity and use the capacity in Premium?

Would this require any fundamental changes to our code, i.e REST calls to the API?

How does the pricing of the capacity in Premium compare to that in embedded? The embdedded is charged at peak renders per hour, but I do not see such a metric for Premium. Nor can I find out exactly how the dedicated capacity of Premium will be charged.

Many thanks

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September 5, 2019, 3:35 am

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Just FYI this Power BI Report is in Mixed storage mode.

Thanks,

Wayne

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Power BI cmdlets Get-PowerBIReport - Only shows reports that are published

September 5, 2019, 6:17 am

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I am trying to export the list of reports that I have access to use the PowerSheet Get-PowerBIReport. It return the list of reports that are published to an app. Any report that is not yet published is not visible. Is this the expected behaviour.

Also, the extract doesn't include the workspaceid. I believe since now we have the "shared dataset" feature, a report is no longer tied to the same workspace as the dataset. I would be useful to add the workspaceid to the extract

here is the script I am running

Connect-PowerBIServiceAccount # or Login-PowerBIServiceAccount, Login-PowerBI
Get-PowerBIReport | Export-csv -Path Downloads\reports.csv

Thanks

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September 5, 2019, 8:00 am

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Can we remove the embedded link which is present in PPT ?

What I am trying to tell when we download the report it automatically downloads an embedded link.

Is there an option to remove this before we download the PPT as report fro

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September 5, 2019, 8:09 am

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Same thing here !

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