Retain selection on visual, even when return back from drill through.

[ctspradeep]

Hi, 

I have summary page and detail page in my report which are connected by drill through. I am selecting a row from power bi table visual in summary page and then right click --> drill-through to detail page which is working fine. When I return back from detail page to summary page by clicking back button in detail page, prior selected row in table visual of summary page is not retaining. Is there a way to preserve selection in summary page while coming back from detaill page?

[camielendert]

Whenever a visual is hidden or another page is opened in PowerBI table selections are reset. There are 2 ways I have bypassed this in the past. 
Option 1: Extend the canvas and put your drill through table at the bottom and then users will have to scroll down to see the table.
Option 2:  Create a button for drill through and a button for returning from the drill through. Then place your drill through table on top of the selection table (if it is see through you will have to put an image under the drill through table to hide the selection table). Then you create 2 bookmarks and 2 buttons. One where you make the drill through table visible and the return from drill through button invisible make sure to leave the selection table visible in this one but keep it behind your drill through table so users can't see it, and the second bookmark you make the drill through and return from drill through button (and image if you used one) invisible and the drill through button visible. Now connect these to the bookmarks to the buttons you made and then the user can select the row they want in the table, click on the drill through button you created and then click on the return from drill through button and the selection will remain. 

[Anonymous]

I copy the need to be able to retain the selection state of the page where the drill-through was acted on. The customer gets lost, when returning from the detail page which I totally understand.

[v-robertq-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @ctspradeep 

According to your description, I think the only way to achieve this is to change the “Action type” of the “Back” button to “Bookmark” and select the bookmark you created based on the status you want to keep when you went back:

But the disadvantage is that you can only select one status for the back button so that the original page can’t change dynamically.

You can also follow mahoneypat’s advice to use the tooltip page instead the drill through to achieve the similar output. Please follow these documents:

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

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

Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Robert Qin

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

[JasonDiV]

Is there an explanation for why the selection on the source visual is "reset" when returning from the drillthrough page? Do we know what is causing this situation in the first place?

[mahoneypat]

I don't think that's an option.  However, you could consider using a Report Page Tooltip instead of drillthrough, so you never leave the page.

Pat