Changelog

Changelog

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