Automating report delivery with subscriptions
Power BI Report Server allows you to create subscriptions to reports. A subscription is a standing request to deliver a report in a specified application file format at a specific time or in response to an event. As opposed to accessing a report on demand, subscriptions are used to schedule and automate the delivery of a report. Reports can be delivered to an email inbox or a file share.
There are two types of subscriptions in Power BI Report Server:
- Standard subscriptions
Standard subscriptions are created and managed by individual users. Standard subscriptions are useful for users when they need a frequently viewed report delivered on a regular basis with a consistent file format and set of parameter values.
- Data-driven subscriptions
Data-driven subscriptions are subscriptions that obtain subscription information at runtime by querying an external data source. The external data source provides information to specify a...
