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How to get drilldown or drillthrough the data
- 11 months ago
Hi manojk_pbi
You can do this in Power BI with the Drillthrough feature. Here’s how it works step-by-step:
1. Create a summary chart
- Build a column chart on your main page with Year >> Month >> Bug_Type as the hierarchy on the X-axis.
- Use a measure like:
- Bug Count = COUNTROWS(Bugs)
so you get counts of bugs per month/type.
2. Create a Drillthrough page
- Add a new page and rename it (e.g. Bug Detail).
- Insert a Table visual with fields like WorkItemID, SnapDate, Bug_Type, Severity, State, Priority.
- In the Visualizations pane, go to Drillthrough filters and drag in the fields you want to pass from the chart (for example Month, Year, or even Bug_Type).
- Turn ON Keep all filters.
- Add a Back button (Insert >> Buttons >> Back) so users can navigate back.
3. Test the Drillthrough
- On the main chart page, right-click any bar (e.g. March - Active3).
- Select Drillthrough >> Bug Detail.
- This takes you to the Drillthrough page and shows only the detailed bug rows for that month/type.
End result:
- Page 1 = summary chart (bug counts).
- Page 2 = detail table (only the filtered rows from your selection).
This is why, in my screenshot, when I clicked March >> Active3, the second page showed only those 3 bug records.
Hi manojk_pbi
You can do this in Power BI with the Drillthrough feature. Here’s how it works step-by-step:
1. Create a summary chart
- Build a column chart on your main page with Year >> Month >> Bug_Type as the hierarchy on the X-axis.
- Use a measure like:
- Bug Count = COUNTROWS(Bugs)
so you get counts of bugs per month/type.
2. Create a Drillthrough page
- Add a new page and rename it (e.g. Bug Detail).
- Insert a Table visual with fields like WorkItemID, SnapDate, Bug_Type, Severity, State, Priority.
- In the Visualizations pane, go to Drillthrough filters and drag in the fields you want to pass from the chart (for example Month, Year, or even Bug_Type).
- Turn ON Keep all filters.
- Add a Back button (Insert >> Buttons >> Back) so users can navigate back.
3. Test the Drillthrough
- On the main chart page, right-click any bar (e.g. March - Active3).
- Select Drillthrough >> Bug Detail.
- This takes you to the Drillthrough page and shows only the detailed bug rows for that month/type.
End result:
- Page 1 = summary chart (bug counts).
- Page 2 = detail table (only the filtered rows from your selection).
This is why, in my screenshot, when I clicked March >> Active3, the second page showed only those 3 bug records.
- manojk_pbi11 months ago
Helper V
Hello rohit1991 , thanks for your suggestion. I will follow the steps and explore.
If possible pls share me the pbix file.