Keep visual selections when publishing

[ChrisMarini]

I have a dashboard with a heatmat (shape map visual) of PA by county (see below)

When I publish this to a workspace for embedding in a webpage, I want Centre county to be highlighted, like below.

I know that if I use a slicer to make this selection, the slicer will be preserved when published, but that gives me the image below, which is not what I want.

Is there any way to retain the visual selection when publishing, or alternatively is there a way to have the slicer highlight rather than filter the visual? I have tried using edit interactions, but it only gives me filter or no interaction and have not been able to find anything else to try through google.

Thanks

[v-pnaroju-msft]

Hi ChrisMarini,

We are following up to see if what we shared solved your issue. If you need more support, please reach out to the Microsoft Fabric community.

Thank you.

[v-pnaroju-msft]

Thankyou, @Irwan for your response.

Hi ChrisMarini,

We appreciate your inquiry through the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum.

We would like to inquire whether have you got the chance to check the solution provided by @Irwan to resolve the issue. We hope the information provided helps to clear the query. Should you have any further queries, kindly feel free to contact the Microsoft Fabric community.

Thank you.

[Irwan]

hello @ChrisMarini 

i assumed the other value will be greyed out (not the slicer selection that will remove all not selected value).

if you save your pbix while that value being selected, the selection will be preserved in published version similar to slicer selection that you mentioned above.

Thank you.

[ChrisMarini]

I am not certain I understand. If you are suggesting to make the selection in the visual, then save with the selection made, I have tried that. When the file is reopened or published, it opens with no selection made. It saves slicer selections but not selections made in visuals.

[Irwan]

Hello @ChrisMarini 

if that does not work, i think you can do with bookmark.

here is an example.

- create a bookmark and update with the desired visualization.

- publish it, then in workspace, go to edit.

- go to bookmark pane at view in above ribbon. then go to personal bookmark.

- in personal bookmark, add bookmark then tick make default view.

this should save the bookmark as default when opening the report page.

Hope this will help.

Thank you.

[ChrisMarini]

Irwan, 

That did work for getting the dashboard to open in the webapp. I had tried using a bookmark, but was missing the step in the webapp setting it to default view. However, when the link was embedded and opened in the external webpage, it is back to opening with no selections shown. Any idea why it might be doing that?

Thanks

[Irwan · Accepted solution]

hello @ChrisMarini 

you need to tick "Make default view" on in personal bookmark workspace or else it will show your visual without the saved selection.

Thank you.