Bookmarks, buttons and navigation

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Kevin Feasel

CTO, Faregame Inc

Navigation and stories

• Stories benefit from structure
• Structured navigation helps tell the story for reports

Bookmarks

• A way of capturing pre-defined state in Power BI
• Similar to browser bookmarks...
• ...but not the same as browser bookmarks

Bookmarks and state

• Currently selected page
• Filter settings
• Slicer selections
• Visual selection state
• Sort order
• Drill location
• Visibility of objects

The bookmark navigator

Buttons

• Perform actions on pages
• Drill through to a new page
• Navigate to a specific page
• Select a bookmark
• Navigate to a web URL

Navigator

• Built-in capability
• Automatically create a navigation based of:
  • Bookmarks
  • Pages (including hidden and tooltips)
• Page navigator automatically syncs with your report pages
  • Titles match page display name
  • Matches the order you define
  • Selected button is the current page
  • Automatically updates as you update

Let's practice!

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