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The challenge we have is users often bookmark their dashboard with many filters set. For example they may have selected 50+ items to filter for. These bookmarks often get wiped when the PBIX gets republished and we'd like to use URL filtering to help as described here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/collaborate-share/service-url-filters
Does anyone know how to use power bi to generate the custom url that would essentially be their 'bookmark' to use for their current set of filters on a page? this would be much easier for us to tell users how to get permanent bookmarks (assuming attributes dont change names).
The idea I had was using 2 steps:
step 1: us some Dax to show all active page filters.
step 2: make a formula to take the active filters in step 1 and write it into the url format that powerbi accepts for url filtering, and place this into a card visual.
That might work but will produce report level filters, not Bookmarks.
the process behind the bookmark creation is not exposed to us. If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.powerbi.com
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