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Vasek00005
Helper I
Helper I

Problem with bookmark (direct use vs. button)

Hi,

 

I have a slicer which I want to toggle show/hide by a bookmark. I have two bookmarks - 1st one shows the slicer, 2nd on hides it. Both slicers are set to affect display only, not data.

 

When I use bookmarts through bookmark pane, everything works fine and the slicer holds its settting (means selected values). But when I use the bookmark through a button (Insert -> Buttons -> Blank; Format -> Action -> Type = Bookmark, Bookmark = <my_saved_bookmark>, then the slicer shows but the selected values get cleared. Do I miss something or am I going crazy?

 

Many thanks,


Vašek

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Update - it must be some bug in Power BI Desktop. I published the project and it works perfectly in Power BI Service.

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Vasek00005
Helper I
Helper I

There must be some kind of bug that I am overlooking. I recreated all the objects and it worked for the first try. But it gets cleared for the second and other try.

Update - it must be some bug in Power BI Desktop. I published the project and it works perfectly in Power BI Service.

Anonymous
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Good news!

Anonymous
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Hi @Vasek00005 

 

This is probably caused by that the button was created after the bookmark had been created. You can update the bookmarks after setting up the buttons. 

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Best Regards,
Jing
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That does not help. I tried to update the bookmark, even delete it and create again. The bookmark itself works when is called directly from Bookmark pane. But when I call it through the button then the slicer gets cleared.

What is interesting is that when the visual is visible and I press the "show button" (with the show bookmark") then the slicer is OK. But when I hide the visual (with other bookmark) then the slicer gets cleared after hitting "show button" again. 

Ritaf1983
Super User
Super User

Hi @Vasek00005 
Try to switch off the toggle "data" / take a look at the linked tutorial

If it doesn't help
please attach the link for some dummy pbix + show what is the desired result.
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T tried to toggle Data but did not help.

I think something must be with the Button. The bookmark itseft works fine. I tried to delete the button and create it again but with the same result.

Hi @Vasek00005 
As I mentioned please attach the link for some dummy pbix + show what is the desired result.

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Rita Fainshtein | Microsoft MVP
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