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duddys
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7 months ago
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Changing pages via url

Hi, I need a way to switch between pages of my report via url. I tried bookmars and searching for their names in Layout file, same for Page names and putting them into the url but it still opens the ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 months ago

    Hi duddys ,

    Thanks for reaching out to the Microsoft fabric community forum. Thank you cengizhanarslan for helpful response.

     

    In Power BI Service, you cannot switch report pages using URL parameters. Any additional text added to the report URL, such as a page or bookmark name, will be ignored. When a report opens in the browser, it will always display the default page or the last saved page, based on how it was published. Bookmarks and page names cannot be used in the URL to control which page loads on refresh.

    This means that URL-based page cycling is not supported in the standard Power BI Service. Navigation features like page navigation buttons, bookmarks, and drill-through pages only work after the report has loaded, and cannot determine the initial page shown on opening or refresh.

    For TV or kiosk displays, the main supported option is to create a separate report for each page and rotate between their URLs. This is the only native way to control which page appears first using the Service alone.

    If you use Power BI Embedded with a custom application, you can set the landing page with parameters like pageName via the JavaScript SDK, but this does not work with regular Power BI Service links. Some teams use external automation tools to simulate page navigation, but this is not officially supported by Power BI.

     

    Thank you.

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cengizhanarslan
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7 months ago

You can’t switch pages via URL in Power BI (neither by page name nor by bookmark name).

Power BI simply does not support deep-linking to report pages using URL parameters. Whatever you append to the report URL is ignored, and the report always opens on:

  • the default page, or

  • the last saved page (depending on how it was published/saved)

Bookmarks don’t change this — bookmark names and page names are not addressable via URL.

 

You can:

  • Use Page navigation buttons

  • Use Bookmarks

  • Use drill-through pages

…but all of these only work after the report is already open. Or you could use default view option shown below:

 

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    duddys
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    7 months ago

    Im showing this report on a tv and I need to cycle between those pages, but as power bi opens on the default page, not on the viewing page after refresh, I think its unachievable, besides splitting the report into separate reports for each page?