If you’ve noticed that screenshots captured in CoE appear blank/empty when you open or inspect them, this is expected behavior for Power BI views.
Power BI visuals are often rendered dynamically (client-side), and the “image” you see on screen isn’t always stored as a traditional, fully-populated bitmap in a way that survives inspection/export the way a normal webpage would.
What actually matters:
PIA doesn’t rely on the screenshot content for the data. When the screenshot step is triggered, PIA fetches the actual data directly from the Power BI source via the Microsoft API, using your specific chain/property context. In other words:
- The screenshot is mainly a trigger to initiate a refresh/update
- The data itself comes from the API, not the captured pixels
- So even if the screenshot looks empty, PIA still retrieves the right dataset for your chain/property
Net: the screenshot is a switch, not the payload.
