Download SSRS report as a PDF with Power Automate – Part 2

Checkout Download SSRS report as a PDF with Power Automate – Part 1

In this blog, we will see how to extract the value for PdfDownloadUrl so we can load it into another request and get our PDF. We’ll do this in 3 parts.

Step 7 – The start of the URL – Add a compose action for the following:

add(indexOf(outputs('HTTP_-_POST_Report_Viewer')?['body'],'"PdfDownloadUrl":"'),18)

Step 8 – Length of PdfDownloadUrl – Add a compose action for the following:

sub(indexOf(outputs('HTTP_-_POST_Report_Viewer')?['body'],'","PdfPreviewUrl"'),outputs('PDF_Download_Start_-_Index'))

Step 9 – Extract and convert the PdfDownloadUrl from the body – Add a compose action for the following:

Replace(substring(outputs('HTTP_-_POST_Report_Viewer')?['body'],outputs('PDF_Download_Start_-_Index'),outputs('PDF_Download_String_Length')),'\u0026','&')

Step 10 – Download PDF

Step 11 – Use a variable to send the Report PDF data

Step 12 – Send an Email

Output –

Hope this helps!