Get started creating paginated reports in the Power BI service

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In this article, you learn all the ways your can start creating a paginated report in the Power BI service. You can use the feature to create paginated reports in any workspace in the Power BI service, including workspaces that aren't in a Power BI Premium capacity.

To create a paginated report from the Power BI service, you can start in a number of places:

Prerequisites

License requirements for Power BI paginated reports (.rdl files) are the same as for Power BI reports (.pbix files).

List view in the Power BI service

  1. Go to list view for any workspace, including My Workspace.

  2. Select More options (...) for a Power BI semantic model, then select Create formatted table.

    Screenshot of Create paginated report in the Power BI service.

  3. Create your paginated report.

Data hub view in the Power BI service

  1. Go to Data hub view in the Power BI service.

  2. Select More options (...) next to a dataset > Create paginated report.

    Screenshot of Create paginated report in the Data hub.

  3. Create your paginated report.

The Dataset details page in the Power BI service

  1. Select a dataset in the Data hub view of the Power BI service.

  2. Under Visualize this data, select Create a report > Paginated report.

    Screenshot of Paginated report on the Dataset details page.

  3. Create your paginated report.

Power BI Desktop

  1. Open Power BI Desktop, and on the Insert tab, select Visual gallery. Scroll down to the Other section > select Paginated report.

    creating a paginated report in Power BI Desktop.

  2. In the visual, select Create paginated report.

    select Create paginated report.

    The Power BI service opens.

  3. In the Choose the data you want to connect, filter or browse to the dataset you want, and Connect.

    Choose the data you want to connect.

  4. Create your paginated report.

Considerations and limitations

  • You can create a paginated report in any workspace.
  • You can't create a paginated report from Power BI semantic models based on a live connection.
  • The online editor does not replicate all existing Power BI Report Builder functionality.