Automationg documentation of reports

[jbetkowska]

Hello

I was asked for creating documentation of reports existing in our organization.

One of key thing in this documentation should be list of data sources (tables) particular report is based on. I can do it manually but I am looking for some automating solution in case somebody will change a bit data model in some report and then forget about updateing file with documantation. Is there any API I could run from time to time to update such file automatically?

[v-xiaotang]

Hi @jbetkowska 

You can search for audit log entries for activities done by specific users. Enter one or more user names in the Users field. The user name looks like an email address. It's the account that users log into Power BI with. Leave this box blank to return entries for all users (and service accounts) in your organization.

you can also restrict results to only Power BI activities by following these steps. 

For more, see  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-auditing#operations-available-in-the-a...

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Tang

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[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@jbetkowska ,refer this blog

https://data-marc.com/2020/07/28/external-tools-document-your-power-bi-model/

You have rest APIs for power bi, not sure that can help

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/

[jbetkowska]

Thank you, I will check this.