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Anonymous
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New to Power BI where is the navigation pane

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?

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

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.

New-to-Power-BI-where-is-the-navigation-pane

 

Best Regards,
Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous,

 

Could you please mark the proper answers as solutions?

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

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.

New-to-Power-BI-where-is-the-navigation-pane

 

Best Regards,
Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
affan
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

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

Greg_Deckler
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Community Champion

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.



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Hi @Anonymous

Do you have a picture, to show what it looks like?

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