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nirrobi
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View pdf file in power bi desktop / service

Hi all,

 

I am trying to view / preview pdf file in the PBI desktop / service.

Till now I only succeed to open the pdf file (locate in my one drive business) in the web browser.

I made a table with URL of the file destenation - as describe in the following link.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-hyperlinks-in-tables/

 

Is it possible to view the PDF file in the PBI itself and not in other app (web browser)?

I tried to use custom visual StrippetsBrowser but not succeed 😞

https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/show/StrippetBrowser16424341054522

 

Thanks in advanced,

Nir.

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lkbansal1993
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can you suggest how to open pdf file in the iframe...actually images are loaded easy but pdf not loaded. so please help me 

v-yuezhe-msft
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Hi @nirrobi,

The StrippetsBrowser visual is not suitable to view PDF file. In your scenario, I am afraid that you need to open the pdf file in the web browser via clicking the Hyperlinks in Power BI tables. Or you can consider to create your own custom visual.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

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Hi Lydia Zhang, we have not managed to visualize a PDF from a table as you mentioned in the post. Can you help us?

Any tutorial that can help me?

@ravelezpI guess you have a field in a table which has path to the pdf file, if yes, select this field , go to modelling table and under data categorization, set it to web url. Now you will see this filed will become url in a table and on click of it will open the file.

 

I hope it answered you question. 



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It´s perfect. Tank´s

Still no ways to preview PDF files in Power Bi based on a link (Not download and open a file) but an actual preview.. tons of em for images but not for PDFs...?

Yes, that's what I found! Thank you and this earring of some new!

Hello Lydia Zhang, I have not managed to open a hyperlink from a Power Bi table to see the PDF, can you explain how to do it? 

 

Any tutorial that can help me?

Hello Lydia Zhang, I have not managed to open a hyperlink from a Power Bi table to see the PDF, can you explain how to do it? 

 

Any tutorial that can help me?

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