Bookmarks not working Power BI Desktop

[Anonymous]

Hi - I have looked at all solutions here for the bookmarks to work and NONE are working....I do NOT know why! I know a couple mentions updates as the culprit BUT these are long ago. 

Thanks 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 

May I ask if you have resolved this issue? If so, please mark the helpful reply and accept it as the solution. This will be helpful for other community members who have similar problems to solve it faster.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 
I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided by @rohit1991 and @Irwan . Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. If their response has addressed your query, please accept it as a solution and give a 'Kudos' so other members can easily find it.
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Will do - had a death in the family. Now back at work trying to get caught up. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 
I wanted to check if you had the opportunity to review the information provided by @Irwan and @rohit1991 . Please feel free to reach us if you have any further questions. If their response has addressed your query, please accept it as a solution and give a 'Kudos' so other members can easily find it.

[Anonymous]

My apologies. I am still working on it but got sidetracked with other requests on the other dashboards. I will get back with this as soon as I can. 

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Sorry I got slammed at work...Going to test all above suggestions. Will be back in a bit

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 

May I ask if you have resolved this issue? If so, please mark the helpful reply and accept it as the solution. This will be helpful for other community members who have similar problems to solve it faster.

Thank you.

[rohit1991]

Hi @Anonymous ,

It appears that your bookmark buttons in Power BI Desktop are not functioning as expected despite correct setup. This issue can often arise if the bookmarks were not properly updated after setting the desired visual states. To resolve this, ensure that each bookmark is capturing the correct visibility and filter state by selecting the desired layout and then right-clicking the bookmark to click "Update." Additionally, verify that the buttons have the "Action" toggle turned on, with the action type set to "Bookmark," and are correctly linked to the corresponding bookmark. From your screenshot, it’s good that “Allow Deselect” is turned off, as this helps maintain button selection behavior. Also, make sure all related visuals and buttons are on the same page and are not grouped in ways that interfere with visibility toggling.

Use the Selection Pane to manually check what each bookmark is showing or hiding, and confirm that visuals are properly layered. If the issue persists, try deleting and recreating the bookmarks and buttons. Finally, test the functionality in Power BI Service, as bookmark behavior can sometimes differ between Desktop and the published report.

[Irwan]

hello @Anonymous 

if you are in PBI desktop, assumed you assigned bookmark to button, to run the bookmark you need to press CTRL+Left Click at the button (since pressing Left Click on the button in PBI desktop will select the button and open the visualization options).

however if you are in service (apps) display or workspace display, only pressing Left Click will run the bookmark.

Hope this will work.

Thank you.