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Anonymous
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NO Drilldown button

Greetings,

 

I followed the Poweer Bi tutorial to create a Drill Down page and tool.

 

When I select the INSERT tab and select button, I don't see a Data or Drill Down button option??

I tried a Blank button, still no Data or DrillDown option??

 

I would appreciate any pointers to resolve this.

 

Regards,

Clive

 

Power-BI-Drilldown.png

 

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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Drill down is not a default button,so you cant directly find it in "buttons",try to import a similar visual online:

v-kelly-msft_0-1611824981569.png

 

Then check below reference to link the button the related page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-buttons

 

Best Regards,
Kelly

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Anonymous
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Hi,

 

Thanks for your reply, unfortuanetly that doesn't help.

 

I have a MS Spreadsheet in Power BI Report. The Report has 15 Categories, and each category has a number of sub-categories. 

 

I want a button for the main category eg LAND, then another button for each sub-category that can be toggled on and off.

 

The image illustrates what I am trying to do when the user clicks the Category and sub-cateogry button/s,  the filtered data fills a table.

U&A.png

 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Drill down is not a default button,so you cant directly find it in "buttons",try to import a similar visual online:

v-kelly-msft_0-1611824981569.png

 

Then check below reference to link the button the related page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-buttons

 

Best Regards,
Kelly

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@Anonymous 

 

I think you can also try to create bookmarks for each category/sub-category views, then call this on different buttons, and this will lead to that point of view.

Hope this makes sense.

mhossain
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Hello @Anonymous 

 

Please see this link: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/how-to-use-a-button-instead-of-drilldown-option/m-p/667874

 

Hope this solves.

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