Automate Power BI Paginated Report Distribution with PDF & Excel Bursting in remiCrystal
If you work with Power BI Paginated Reports, you already know how powerful they are for generating pixel-perfect, print-ready documents. But when it comes to distributing those reports—especially when you need to send individualized pages to different people—the native tooling can fall short.
That’s where remiCrystal’s new PDF & Excel Bursting for Power BI Paginated Reports comes in. It’s a simple but ridiculously powerful way to split, personalize, and deliver large Paginated Report exports automatically.
What Is “Bursting” for Power BI Paginated Reports?
Report bursting is the process of taking a single report that contains multiple groups (for example: clients, employees, regions, departments) and automatically splitting it into individual files—each containing only the pages relevant to that specific recipient.
Traditionally, this required:
Re-running the same report for every group
Building complex subscriptions
Configuring Premium capacity
Writing PowerShell or API scripts
Or… doing it manually
With remiCrystal, you can now burst PDF or Excel outputs from a single export
How remiCrystal Bursting Works (It’s Surprisingly Simple)
.All you do is add a tiny tag in the report header of your Paginated Report:
{burst=true|email=test@test.com|name=Mike Jones}
You can include as many fields as you want—email, name, region, customer ID, cost center, manager, etc.
When you export the report from RemiCrystal:
remiCrystal scans the PDF or Excel file
Locates every occurrence of the burst tag
Extracts the metadata (like email, names, etc.)
Splits the report into individual files per group
Delivers each file to its recipient automatically via email, FTP, network folder, or SharePoint
One report in → a fully personalized distribution pipeline out.
No Premium capacity.
No coding.
No subscriptions.
No re-processing.
Why This Matters for Power BI Users
✔ Massive Time Savings
Instead of running the same Paginated Report 50, 200, or 1,000 times, you just run it once.
✔ Perfect for Row-Level Distribution
HR reports
Finance statements
Client invoices
Sales performance reports
Regional breakdowns
Audit reports
Franchise summaries
If your report uses grouping, you can burst it.
✔ Works With Any Power BI Paginated Report
No schema changes
No rewriting your RDL
No custom APIs
Just add the tag to your report header and set its foreground color to white so it is not visible to the end user.
✔ Enterprise-Grade Delivery
remiCrystal supports:
SMTP
Office 365 email
Secure FTP/SFTP
File shares
OneDrive / SharePoint
Printing
You control the rules and schedule.
Power BI Paginated Report Automation
If you’re searching for ways to automate Power BI Paginated Reports, burst Power BI PDFs, or schedule Paginated Report delivery, remiCrystal offers one of the most complete and flexible automation engines on the market.
This feature helps with:
Power BI report bursting
PDF bursting for Power BI
Excel bursting for Power BI
Paginated Report distribution automation
Power BI report scheduling
Pixel-perfect report delivery
Power BI row-level export automation
remiCrystal handles the entire workflow—generation, bursting, personalization, delivery, logging, and audit trail—without you touching a thing.
A Quick Example of a Bursting Tag
Want to send a personalized regional sales report? Add this:
{burst=true|email=sales.east@company.com|region=East|manager=John Doe}Or per client:
{burst=true|email=client123@domain.com|customerID=123|name=Acme Corp}
remiCrystal extracts these fields and uses them for:
Email recipients
File naming
Folder paths
Logging
Why We Built This Feature
More and more businesses are adopting Power BI Paginated Reports for operational reporting, but the biggest complaint we hear is:
“I love Paginated Reports… but distributing them is painful. Throttling and rate-limits always get in the way”
Bursting solves that.
And by embedding the instructions directly inside the report, you have full control without managing a giant configuration file.
Try PDF & Excel Bursting for Power BI in remiCrystal
If you’re looking for a clean, automated, scalable way to distribute personalized Paginated Reports, this feature will save you hours each week.
You can try it out today with any existing RDL/Paginated Report.