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Make the Power Automate 'Export To File for Power BI Report' available to Premium-Per-User

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Joey Stam on 10 Dec 2020 05:21:51

Currently the Power Automate 'Export To File for Power BI Report' functionality is only available to Premium license holders, NOT to users that are on the Premium-Per-User trial.

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Shashank Sane on 09 Aug 2023 10:38:48

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The additional cost to migrate from PPU to Premium only for this feature and that too for a small company 0f 5-10 people is totally unjustified.

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AmplifAI Reporting on 31 Jul 2023 22:42:31

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Makes no sense to have the option in PPU directly in the subscribe option, but not in the API or Automate.

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Joshua Clark-Bell on 21 Jul 2023 13:16:09

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Enable for ppu, separating to license is ridiculous

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Matthew Foy on 11 Jul 2023 17:37:04

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This is seriously needed for SME-tier customers. Expecting a business that has less than 10 full time employees to pay many thousands of dollars a month just to automatically generate PDFs of existing reports is absurd, especially when they're all on the PPU licensing model.

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Michael Butcher on 15 Jun 2023 15:46:34

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Genuinely IMMENSELY frustrating that this is the case.

This would save our Social Care company a significant amount of time by being able to email critical reports within the hour to individuals - not only relating to the care of residents but also maintenance tasks that we have reports on in PowerBI.


PPU has been around long enough now that it's the accepted way of using PowerBI in smaller businesses. Please turn this feature on for PPU.

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Afonso Oliveira on 13 Jun 2023 09:03:06

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My company upgraded me to premium per user only because of this feature.

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José Barros on 26 Apr 2023 19:07:46

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This idea was posted in 2020 and now it's 2023 and still needs votes.. How many votes does it needs to be accepted? Unbelievable.

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David Curtin on 12 Mar 2023 07:23:45

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Using PPU - Company size 100 users. Considering you cannot subscribe an email group in the PBI service , doing it via Powerautomate would be very helpful. We are migrating from qliksense to powerBI an there are many things we took for granted in Qliksnse which are just not in PBI :( Allow this as bolt on at least!

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Anders Grandt on 16 Jan 2023 18:27:54

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Microsoft is really trying hard here to move people away from Power BI. PPU license must be able to export a pdf via API.

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Earl Reyes on 09 Jan 2023 23:10:47

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Honestly it's like we spend so much time just learning how to use powerbi and when we finally think we can build something of value we get shown this paywall which further reinforces that we should be moving to another tool.