Weโre excited to announce that dynamic per recipient subscriptions are now available in Preview for Power BI reports! Similar to dynamic subscriptions for paginated reports, you can now distribute a personalized copy of a Power BI report to each recipient of an email subscription.
- How it works
- What youโll need to get started
- Setting up a dynamic per recipient subscription
- Things to keep in mind
- We want to hear your feedback
How it works
Imagine you have a report that includes sales data for your entire team. You want to schedule an email subscription that sends out a PDF copy of this report to each salesperson on a weekly basis, with the report filtered to only show their sales results.
This can now be done by connecting to a semantic model (previously Power BI dataset) that defines the mapping between recipients and respective filter values. When itโs time to send out the report, the latest data available in your semantic model will determine which employees should receive a report in their inbox, and with what filter values applied.
What youโll need to get started
- A Power BI report saved in a workspace backed by a capacity (i.e.,ย Power BI Premium capacity,ย Microsoft Fabric (Preview) trial, orย Microsoft Fabric capacity).
- Build permissions to a semantic model that contains the email addresses of your recipients and filter value(s) that should be applied for each recipient.
Setting up a dynamic per recipient subscription
- Navigate to your Power BI report. Select Subscribe to report from the toolbar and then select the new Dynamic per recipient (Preview) option in the subscription pane.
- Select a semantic model that contains your recipientsโ data (i.e. email addresses, filter values for each recipient).
- Next, select the columns from your semantic model that should be varied for each recipient. Email address, email subject, report filters, and even the attachment format can be set dynamically based on data in a semantic model. In this example, weโve selected the email addresses and the names of our salespeople.
- You can apply filters and change the method of aggregation by expanding theย Filterย andย Buildย panes respectively.
- On theย Email detailsย page, map the column from your semantic model that contains email addresses to theย Recipientsย field. On this page you can also set the name of the subscription, subject, email message, and attachment format. Note, email subject and attachment format can optionally be mapped to a column from your semantic model.
- Proceeding to theย Map your dataย page, youโll first see the option to Include my changes. Selecting this will use the current state of the report with any filter values, spotlights, drill states etc. as the starting state of the report upon which dynamic filter values will be applied. Deselecting this will use the default state of the report.
- Continuing to Dynamic filters, select Add filter to create a mapping between a report filter and a column in the semantic model containing your recipient data.ย Report field is the field to which we want to apply a dynamic filter value, and Value is the column in our recipient dataset containing values for each recipient. Note, all dynamic filters will be applied at the report level (i.e. to all pages).
- On theย Scheduleย page, specify the frequency at which you want this subscription to send. By turning offย Active subscription, you have the option of triggering this subscription manually instead of on a recurring basis.
- The finalย Review and finishย page lets you review the dynamic subscription you just created as well as go back to any step to make changes. Selectย Save and closeย to finalize your subscription.
- In the subscription pane, you’ll see this newly created dynamic subscription. You can asynchronously send this subscription to all recipients by selectingย Send now.
Things to keep in mind
This feature will start lighting up in certain regions as soon as today, but depending on the geography in which your Power BI tenant is located, it may take up to two weeks to appear.
This feature is in Preview, meaning itโs now automatically available for all customers to try and we will be shipping improvements over the coming months. As a Preview feature, itโs not available to customers located in Sovereign Clouds.
Currently, only single values are supported with dynamic filters.
The initial limit on number of unique copies of a report per a single dynamic subscription is 50.
More details are available in the documentation.
We want to hear your feedback
We would love to hear your feedback on dynamic subscriptions. What do you like? What can we do to make it better?
Let us know in the comments or on ideas.fabric.microsoft.com.