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cmckinney
Helper IV
6 years ago
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Using navigation buttons on dashboards

I created a button that, when clicked, sends you to a different report page. This works fine in the report view but not in the dashboard view. Is there a way to get navigation buttons to work in the report view? 

  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    6 years ago

    Buttons don't work in the dashboard. The Dashboard feature is meant to be a quick display of data, and honestly I avoid it. I only use the Dashboard feature for Power BI alerts that I can pass to Power Automate and take action.

     

    I build "Dashboard pages" in my reports that can look like a dashboard, but have the full functionality of all reporting tools.

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  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    Community Champion
    6 years ago

    Buttons don't work in the dashboard. The Dashboard feature is meant to be a quick display of data, and honestly I avoid it. I only use the Dashboard feature for Power BI alerts that I can pass to Power Automate and take action.

     

    I build "Dashboard pages" in my reports that can look like a dashboard, but have the full functionality of all reporting tools.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    Hi cmckinney 

    Dashboards are different from report.

    A dashboard can contain pinned charts from different report. It is not logical/possible  to have the same functionality on dashboard.

  • v-xicai's avatar
    v-xicai
    Community Support
    6 years ago

    Hi cmckinney ,

     

    Your demand is a good idea, while it is unsupported to get navigation button for dashboard in Power BI currently. You can post your new idea in Idea Forum , add your comments there to improve Power BI and make this feature coming sooner.

     

    Best Regards,

    Amy 

     

    Community Support Team _ Amy

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

  • edhans's avatar
    edhans
    Community Champion
    6 years ago

    cmckinney - I think you have your answer - doesn't work. If you could mark my original response as the answer so others looking for the same thing know that is solved. If you add it to Ideas feel free to post that link back here. I'd vote for it! 👍

  • ENICHOLS's avatar
    ENICHOLS
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    I have the same issue, except navigating between bookmarks on the same page - showing or hiding visualizations depnding on the selection. No page navigation. 

     

    edhans is this also not supported? Functionally, this is the same as choosing an item from a slicer but it looks better and is easier. Slicers work on live pages pinned to dashboards, which seems counterintuitive that dashboards are meant to be a quick view of the data. I get it for page navigation, and I also agree about dashbaords. The customer likes using them, so this is what we do. 

    • edhans's avatar
      edhans
      Community Champion
      6 years ago

      It doesn't appear so. 

       

      I suspect your customer likes dashboards because it is a one stop shop for pages from various reports. I suggest you show them what a Power BI App is for a workspace where you can create an app that they can arrange the reports and pages order, as well as hiding/showing pages you want. Then, the full functionality of the reports exist. I really discourage the use of the "Dashbaord" feature for all but two scenarios:

      1. Very high level visuals with key info. Never matrixes/tables, things with slicers, etc. Use Reports for that.
      2. Cards used for Alerts that can be passed off to Power Automate for workflows to kick in. In thse cases, I rarely even show users these dashbaords and do not include them in Power BI Apps.