Page Navigation

[sheschro68]

Hello,

I am working on creating a page navigation "system" in my desktop.pbix. I have tried two different ways and end up with the same results. I'm hoping someone here can help or tell me it can't be done. Here is my scenario.

I have 44 separate report pages along with a landing page. Each report falls into a report group, there are 11, 12 if you include the landing page. What I want to do is have the user click on a "navigation button" that opens up the report group menu. From there the user selects the page they want to go to and page navigator take them to the page. This scenario would be repeated on ALL report pages, allowing the user to access any report page from anywhere within the .pbix.

In my first attempt, I created a report group menu controled by a bookmark Nav_OpenMenu

Each report group button then opens a expanded menu which contains the report group buttons (hidden or visual) and a report page group of buttons that are set to page navigation.

All of this works beautifully on my landing page, however, as soon as I copy the visuals to the other report pages my bookmarks break. They only work on the landing page even though I have carefully created them and turned current page OFF.

No matter what I've tried the bookmarks stay bound to the Landing page and will not work on any other report pages. So...

After doing some digging I found the Page navigator and Bookmark navigator buttons. Wish I'd found them first. This time around I started with creating my Page Navigator buttons 

Then created a series of bookmarks to show/hide the appropriate report pages based on the report groups.

Again, works beautifully on my landing page but as soon as I copy it to my other pages the bookmarks only work on the landing page even with current page OFF.

I have spend too long searching for an answer so I am hoping someone here knows if this is possible and if so, where I am going wrong?

Any insight will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

[sheschro68]

If you are inferring to have 44 separate .pbix files, that is not possible. If not please explain what you mean by "separate reports". Thank you.

[RicardoTraNa · Accepted solution]

Hi! This is expected behavior in Power BI.. bookmarks are always tied to the page where they were created, even if “Current page” is turned off. That setting prevents navigation, but the bookmark still stores the visual state of its original page, so when you copy the buttons to other pages they still reference the landing page bookmarks and won’t work properly there. Unfortunately, bookmarks aren’t reusable across pages, so your options are either to recreate them on each page or switch to a more stable approach like using the Page Navigator and a fixed menu instead of show/hide bookmarks.

Hope that help! 

[sheschro68]

Thank you RicardoTraNa. I will move forward with a fixed menu approach utilizing Page Navigator.

[InsightsByV]

Hi, can you try recreating bookmarks keeping the same setups on 2 3 pages and try it they work on those pages. (basically, no copy pasting on each page and recreating them individually)

[lbendlin]

where I am going wrong?

44 report pages? Have you considered using separate reports?