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Thank you. Im new here. First post. Lots of the videos on youtube show a home page that has
a navigation pane. I dont have that. Yet it is the place in these videos where you find dashboards etc.
All i have are 3 icons. one for reports, then data, and relationships.
No navigation pane. Ive checked settings. what am i doing wrong?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @Anonymous,
It seems you are looking for the startup page like below. If so, please find out the cached User.zip file and change a setting from 0 to 1. The path in my computer is C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\User.zip.
Best Regards,
Dale
Hi @Anonymous,
Could you please mark the proper answers as solutions?
Best Regards,
Dale
Hi @Anonymous,
It seems you are looking for the startup page like below. If so, please find out the cached User.zip file and change a setting from 0 to 1. The path in my computer is C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\User.zip.
Best Regards,
Dale
Hi @Anonymous
Can you refer any video link which is showing the mentioned navigation pane. Are you refering to the "Queries pane" in the query editor?
Regards
Affan
Navigation pane. Do you mean Bookmarks pane? If you go to "View" at the top in Desktop then you can turn on the Bookmarks Pane and the Selection Pane.
Hi @Anonymous
Do you have a picture, to show what it looks like?
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