Web authoring for paginated reports in Power BI
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Mar 31, 2022 |
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Business value
Operational reporting remains a key part of any organization's business intelligence strategy. For many years, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has met that need for organizations worldwide. But as more and more customers transition to the Power BI cloud service, paginated reports in Power BI are meeting those customers' needs.
By evolving the ability to author these reports from locally installed, IT-centric tooling to a modern web-based offering, users can take advantage of the unique capabilities offered by paginated reports. Whether you're a casual user of Power BI or have used SSRS in the past, these new capabilities will set the standard and provide a simple yet powerful way to author paginated reports moving forward.
Feature details
The initial experience of web authoring for paginated reports will address a top customer request: to be able to create formatted tables using Power BI datasets while a paginated report is created behind the scenes.
Planned feature highlights include:
- Selecting fields from a Power BI dataset using the familiar Power BI service interface
- Choosing a style to apply to your formatted table
- Exporting to Excel, PDF, PPTX, and other supported formats
- Saving and subscribing to the report on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
- Saving and opening in Report Builder for advanced editing scenarios
Additional capabilities will be added as all the formatting options for tables and matrixes are brought to the web.
See also
Create a paginated report from a Power BI report or dataset (docs)