Changelog

Changelog

V3.7.2 - 2025-11-17

  • Microsoft Graph API: Resolved an issue where inline images were incorrectly sent as attachments.

V3.7.1 - 2025-11-13

  • “Add from Web” Option in Playlist Configuration: Introduced a new Add from Web option that allows rendering any URLs.

  • Password-Protected PDF Export: Added the ability to set a password for PDF exports, enhancing security and preventing unauthorized recipients from opening the documents.

  • Dynamic Playlist Execution via API: Added the ability to send all required playlist parameters directly within an API call, allowing reports to be executed dynamically without the need to create or edit playlists in the PowerBI Robots Backoffice.

V3.6.36 - 2025-10-15

  • Excel Template Export: Introduced the ability to export playlists using a predefined Excel template. This feature allows seamless integration of reports into a desired format, ensuring consistency and efficiency in report distribution.

  • Playlist Expiration: Added the option to set an expiration date and time for each playlist. Once the defined period ends, sending and execution automatically stop.

  • Bulk Playlist Management: Enabled multi-selection of playlists to apply management actions (Execute, Duplicate, Delete, Activate/Deactivate) simultaneously.

  • CSV Export: Added a new export option in CSV format.

V3.6.23 - 2025-09-10

  • Multi-Agent: It is now possible to centrally configure and manage which server is responsible for executing each playlist. This feature allows distributing processing across multiple agents in an efficient and controlled way

V3.6.19 - 2025-08-12

  • Integration with Fabric API: Added functionality to connect and interact directly with Microsoft Fabric’s API for improved automation and data operations.

  • Selective Migration of Playlists to New Account: Introduced the ability to migrate only selected playlists when moving to a new account, allowing for greater control and customization.

  • Export of Power BI Report Pages to Excel: Enabled exporting specific pages from Power BI reports directly into Excel for enhanced data analysis and sharing.

V3.6.1 - 2025-06-17

  • Multi Output: Option to send reports as PDF or PNG attachments while also embedding the image in the email body.

  • Execution Prerequisites: Ability to define conditional rules for report or recipient execution using DAX queries.

V3.5.15 - 2025-04-22

  • API: Added functionality to manage recipients and apply custom filters.

  • File Security: Support for password-protected Excel files.

  • Slideshow Controls: Implemented actions for controlling slideshows: pause, play, next, forward, and rewind.

  • Playlist Execution: Progress tracking for playlist execution visible on the PowerBI Robots Backoffice.

V3.5.13 - 2025-03-24

  • Multitenant access (Premium Licenses)

    • Add multiple users under the same AccountID to manage multiple playlists

    • Centralized access management and improved collaboration.

  • PDF Style Customization

    • Personalize the background color of your PDF reports.

V3.5.1 - 2024-06-04

  • Agent

    • Added support for a new email provider: Microsoft Graph API.

    • Fixed email encoding when sending emails using the Gmail API.

V3.4.4 - 2023-12-12

  • Agent

    • Added support for a new email provider: Gmail API.

V3.4.2 - 2023-07-26

  • Agent

    • Fixed missing SMTP configurations on the 'Providers' tab.

V3.4.1 - 2023-06-29

  • Web & Agent

    • Added support for Google’s SMTP with OAuth2 authentication

    • Added a new option for customizing the margins of PDF files

    • Added retries when the SMTP email server temporarily fails

    • Fixed an issue regarding Microsoft’s SMTP OAuth2 authentication

    • Fixed network connection issues when executing the playlist

    • Improved technical logging

    • Updated the certificate used to digitally sign PowerBI Robots' desktop agent executable

V3.3.25 - 2023-03-30

  • Agent

    • Added new setting "Ignore report Timeouts"

    • Added new setting "Extra Logging"

    • Fixed an issue when sending emails with Microsoft Authentication

V3.3.20 - 2023-02-08

  • Agent

    • Fixed paginated reports export when orientation is vertical

    • Fixed PowerBI Robots Windows Service stopping unexpectedly

V3.3.18 - 2023-01-24

  • Agent

    • Fixed send email with "From Address"

    • Added new setting to control the number of playlists that run simultaneously

    • Added technical logging when exporting Paginated Reports

    • Fixed PowerBI Embedded Management when multiple playlists are run simultaneously

V3.3.17 - 2022-12-14

  • Agent

    • Fixed the issue where the pdf generated was blank

V3.3.15 - 2022-11-07

  • Agent

    • Added support for SMTP OAuth authentication for Office 365

V3.3.12 - 2022-10-11

  • Agent

    • Fixed report filters not applied

V3.3.10 - 2022-07-13

  • Web & Agent

    • Fixed the issue Agent Status "Unknown"

V3.3.2 - 2022-03-28

  • Web & Agent

    • Added new option to group email sending by recipient email.

    • Minor fixes.

V3.3 - 2022-02-15

  • Web & Agent

    • Automatic Excel formatting option in the playlist.

    • New modern SharePoint authentication method in the desktop agent.

    • MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) upgrade in the web agent.

    • Fixes related to exporting to Excel.

    • Token support on email Cc and Bcc splited by ";" or ",".

V3.2 - 2021-11-16

  • Web & Agent

    • Ability to use a DAX query on when exporting a Power BI dataset to Excel.

    • New Power BI report delivery method: Webhook.

    • Ability to choose between Summarized or Underlying data when exporting to Excel.

    • New Excel style option lets users add color formatting to files exported to Excel.

    • Paginated Reports support.

    • New recurrence options: Last day of the month and multiple times per hour.

    • New API methods:

      1. /playlist.delete

      2. /playlist.list

      3. /playlist.info

      4. /playlist.rename

      5. /playlist.setRecurrency

      6. /playlist.execute

      7. /playlist.history

      8. /playlist.create

      9. /playlist.edit

V3.1 - 2021-08-16

  • Web & Agent

    • Users can now transfer an account license and playlists to another account in Settings.

    • An Admin account can now be notified by email if an error occurs during the delivery of a playlist.

    • SharePoint folders are now available as a delivery destination.

    • Users can now export and import a list of recipients using an Excel file.

    • Users can now add custom columns to recipients.

    • Custom columns are available as tokens for other inputs and in filter selection.

    • Playlists can now have tags (available in the General tab) and users can search playlists by tags.

V3.0 - 2021-04-27

  • Web & Agent

    • New Public API method: playlist.execute with this method, you can now execute your PowerBI Robots playlist through the API.

    • Removed the need to sync the desktop agent after making changes to a playlist As long as your desktop agent is online, you no longer need to open the desktop agent and hit sync whenever you create or edit a playlist on PowerBI Robots. If your desktop agent is offline, you must access it and click sync.

    • Added clear all recipients and clear all visuals buttons – instead of deleting recipients and visuals one by one when, the Recipients and Visuals tabs now have a button that allows you to clear all of these elements with a single click.

    • Added an Execute Playlist button accessible from a playlist’s dropdown menu on the home screen.

    • Added a progress bar – your playlists now have a running progress bar, visible from the home menu, that let’s you know if it’s being executed. Once it’s executed, the user is notified.

    • Added a Filter by Status option to the Playlist History.

V2.6.8 - 2021-02-24

  • Agent

    • Fixed the issue "No connecting to https://login.microsoft.com"

V2.6.1 - 2021-02-02

  • Web & Agent

    • Added new output to to publish to Azure Blob storage

V2.5.5 - 2020-09-29

  • Agent

    • Fixed an issue that prevented playlist with reports from SQL Report Server from running without a valid Power BI login.

    • Added more logs when reports fails to render

V2.5.3 - 2020-09-22

  • Agent

    • Fixed an issue that prevented the PowerBI Robots agent from synchronizing the configuration in some computers.

V2.5.2 - 2020-09-11

  • Agent

    • Fixed an issue that occured when using token replacer in slicers.

V2.5.1 - 2020-09-10

  • Agent

    • Added a new Power BI authentication method using a Service Principal account

    • Added the possibility of managing (Resuming and Pausing) Power BI Embedded when authenticated using the Service Principal method

  • Web

    • Added the possibility of using Row-Level Security in Power BI Reports.

    • Dynamic fields/tokens for each recipient are now available to use in visual titles, that will appear in Excel sheets names when exporting to Excel, as well as in the file names

    • Fixed a bug where users could create playlists with invalid recurrences and invalid visual type/export format combinations.

    • Improved site performance when creating a playlist with a large number of recipients.

    • Dynamic fields/tokens for each recipient are now available to use in visual titles, that will appear in Excel sheets when exporting to Excel, aswell as in the file names.

V2.4.21 - 2020-07-03

  • Agent

    • Fixed a bug where some visual filters were not applied when exporting to Excel, PDF or Image.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented Anonymous Authentication option not being loaded when the form is begin open.

    • Improved Playlist history information that is sent to the Backoffice.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented two playlists with the same name running at the same time.

  • Web

    • Added Agent Version and Server Name on Playlist History

V2.4.15 - 2020-05-19

  • Agent

    • Fixed a bug that prevented some SMTP servers from sending emails containing bare line feed characters.

V2.4.14 - 2020-04-21

  • Agent

    • Export to excel using visuals from different pages fixed

  • Web

    • Usage of token for the previous month - #PREVIOUS_MONTH_YEAR# - in Playlist Title and Email Subject fixed

V2.4.11 - 2020-03-24

  • Agent

    • Improved the description of error messages sent to the web execution history.

    • The token for single digit days and months is now the same as in the web agent (e.g., 3 is now 03).

    • Fixed the rendering error that stopped prints whenever there were PowerApps in the report.

    • New option to automatically select the Gmail and Office 365 SMTP configuration.

  • Web

    • There’s a new token for the previous month - #PREVIOUS_MONTH_YEAR#

    • The top-level domain (TLD) of emails in the CC and BCC fields can now have over 3 letters.

    • Improvements when importing/exporting filters using Excel

    • Added the option to ignore changes in a report after a playlist is rendered (e.g., if there was a timer on a report, PowerBI Robots used to wait for it to end to get the print and data timeout).

V2.4.8 - 2020-03-19

  • Agent

    • Added option to send emails anonymously via SMTP

V2.4.1 - 2019-12-20

  • Web

    • Bookmark support – select bookmarks from Power BI to your playlists

    • Slicer support – add filters set by slicers to your playlists

    • Dynamic fields in the recipients’ tab – associate any number of categories of your choice to a recipient by adding new columns next to the name and email fields. These new fields will show up in the tokens’ list wherever tokens are available

    • Duplicate visuals – visuals in a playlist can now be duplicated with a click

    • Public API – gain access to the ability to activate and deactivate playlists through an HTTP request

    • New limitations introduced to the PowerBI Robots trial version – the free version of PowerBI Robots now supports 5 playlists with up to 5 visuals each, and 5 recipients per playlist

V2.3.4 - 2019-10-04

  • Agent

    • Added option to set the name when sending email

  • Web

    • Added new keywords for recepient email and name

    • Added option to export visuals to Excel

V2.2.1 - 2019-08-01

  • Agent

    • Removed mandatory Power BI Login when a playlist is for SQL Report server

    • Improved multiple playlists render performance

    • Added more information when an error occurs

  • Web

    • Added new keywords on email body

    • Added keywords in Playlist Title, Visuals Title, and Email Subject

    • New recurrence option - you can now select the weekdays

    • Added Export/Import filter to JSON file

    • Added Power BI Report Page Visuals

    • Added new settings for image output: Margin, Auto Crop, Timestamp

    • Added more information when an error occurs

V2.1.11 - 2019-04-11

  • Agent

    • Send an email with CC and BCC.

  • Web

    • Added option to customize email CC and BCC.

    • Added option to export/import recipients from an Excel file.

V2.1.7 - 2018-12-20

  • Agent

    • Fix an issue that prevented the embedded image from showing in the email.

    • Removed the image embedded max width from the email body.

V2.1.6 - 2018-12-11

  • Agent

    • Fixes when generating PDf files

    • Fixes when updating playlist history

V2.1.1 - 2018-11-03

  • Agent

    • Users can now choose to stop sending playlists whenever they encounter a timeout/error

    • Images can now be embedded into emails instead of annexed

    • Improved PDF image quality – now exactly the same as when you export from Power BI

    • New PDF size format available: US letter size

    • Overall improved performance

V2.0.8 - 2018-10-11

  • Agent

    • Render performance improvements

V2.0.7 - 2018-10-04

  • Agent

    • No longer mandatory to specify an user to run the PowerBI Robots service

V2.0.4 - 2018-09-25

  • Agent

    • New engine: improved timeout and rendering ability

  • Web

    • Apply filters hotfix

    • Option to enable/disable playlists

    • New output format: pdf will adjust to the image width

    • Option to reorder visuals in the playlist

    • New rendering options

      • Full dashboard

      • Add link from Report Server

V1.4.1 - 2018-07-02

  • Agent

    • Playlist now run on local machine time (previously was on UTC time)

  • Web

    • Added HTML Edit to customize the email body

    • Added tokens to use in the email subject and body

    • Added playlist execution history

    • Added Duplicate option to playlist

    • Added rendering settings to playlist

    • Added recurrence minutes

    • Improved report/dashboard navigation

V1.1.0 - 2018-01-03

  • Agent

    • Timeouts Fixes

    • Fixed problem with Windows zoom

    • Other minor bug Fixes

  • Web

    • Create/Edit playlist new wizard

    • Added new delivery - PowerBI Robots Cloud

    • Added playlist slideshow

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