The absence of this basic feature has been such an issue for me that I had to create my own system for keeping track of selected visuals in each bookmark when I'm developing them from scratch. Still though, if you have the misfortune of having to modify existing bookmarks that apply to unknown selected visuals, you're really just SOL.
For those interested, here is my crude "system" for developing bookmarks that apply to selected visuals only:
In a PBI Desktop Report file...
- Go to "View" > Enable "Bookmarks" & Enable "Selection"
- In the "Selection" pane, rename the objects that you're going to select for the bookmark using any unique identifier as the prefix (I personally use ! or _ or *)
> e.g. "!Matrix", "!Table", "!Button"
- Multi-select those objects and create your bookmark
- Somewhere in the name of the bookmark include the same unique identifier
> e.g. "!ExampleBookmark"
When developing bookmarks this way, for example, I'd be able to convey that the selected visuals for "!ExampleBookmark" are those whose names are prefixed with a "!".
When I have a bookmark selected I can't see what visuals it pertains too. The only time you can tell for certain is upon creation or update, after that you must remember. This is poor practice in ter...
