Email subscriptions

Power BI also provides email subscriptions for Power BI Pro users of both reports and dashboards as well as users with Free licenses if the content is hosted in a Premium capacity workspace (a P or EM SKU). With email subscriptions configured in the Power BI service, a user is sent a snapshot of either the report page or the dashboard canvas as well as an optional link to the content in the Power BI service.

In Figure 13.31, a user with a Power BI Pro license has accessed European Sales (dashboard), as described earlier in this chapter, from within a Power BI app:

Figure 13.31: Subscribe to the dashboard

Clicking the Subscribe icon, as shown in Figure 13.31, opens the Subscribe to emails pane to configure and confirm the email subscription, as shown in Figure 13.32:

Figure 13.32: Subscribe to emails pane

With the yellow slider set to On, selecting the Save and close button (not shown) at the bottom of the pane enables the email subscription...