How to get the content of the Report or App Description field

[BrunoM]

Dear All,
In the settings tab of a report, there is a field named Description that can be used to describe the Functional content of the report. 
There is also this type of information at the App Level, when you choose the button Update App.

We would like to build a report (using the REST API) giving to our User Community a global view of the existings APPs with a, short cut, the contacts and the functional description (using the Report Description field).

My question : how can we get via a script the information related to the Report Description and App description field ?

In advance thank you for your help

[Anonymous]

Hi Bruno,

Frustratingly, the workspace & report descriptions are not returned by these rest APIs.
Currently the only is to scan the tenant using the following API calls... 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/workspace-info-post-workspace-info

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/workspace-info-get-scan-result

Please vote in ideas to add workspace & report descriptions to the standard APIs!

Cheers, Steve

[AbdelSolis]

Hi guys, I have this same problem, I'm using both APIs GetReportsInGroup and GetReportsInGroupAsAdmin and neither returns the description filed that I set up in Power BI service for the reports.

Is there any solution to get this info?

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I am trying to retrieve the Report Description and Owner properties.
I can run the GetReport REST API but I only get the fields in the sample, not the full list.

These are the current output fields:
{
"@odata.context": 
"id": 
"reportType": "PowerBIReport",
"name": 
"webUrl": 
"embedUrl":
"isOwnedByMe": 
"datasetId": 
"users": []
}
Any suggestion on how to extract the remaining fields?

Cheers, Steve

[v-lionel-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @BrunoM ,

You can use the Reports - Get Report (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Docs to get the description.

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[BrunoM]

Thank You so much Lionel !