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bdherh
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3 months ago
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Turn off navicagtion pane

This should be easy but the documentation online is not showing in my setup.  I simply need to turn off the pages pane once deployed.  I have navigation buttons on my dashboard.  I looked at a Pages ...
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  • v-menakakota's avatar
    v-menakakota
    3 months ago

    Hi bdherh   ,

    If `?navContentPaneEnabled=false` (or `&navContentPaneEnabled=false`) is removed after the report loads, this can happen in some current Power BI / Fabric Service experiences.

     

    This parameter is commonly used as a workaround, but it should not be considered a guaranteed permanent setting for every standard Power BI Service report URL.

     

    At present, Microsoft provides settings to change how the Pages pane is displayed for example, showing pages as tabs at the bottom, but there is no universal report setting that permanently disables the Pages pane across all Power BI Service experiences.

     

    For a more reliable workaround, you can keep one visible landing page and use buttons/bookmarks to navigate to hidden pages. If the report is shared through a Power BI App, you can also review the app navigation options there.

    References -

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/power-bi-report-settings

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/configure-report-settings

    https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Service/How-to-hide-page-navigation-pane-or-open-report-i…

    If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. 

    Best Regards, 
    Community Support Team

  • Poojara_D12's avatar
    Poojara_D12
    3 months ago

    Hi bdherh 

    The reason you cannot find a global "Pages toggle" in the standard workspace settings is that the left-hand Pages pane cannot be entirely disabled inside a raw workspace view; it is a native container element of the Power BI Service interface. However, since you have already built custom navigation buttons on your dashboard, you can easily completely hide that standard Pages pane from your end users by publishing the report inside a Power BI App. When you build the App, go to the Content step of the setup, select your report, open its individual settings, and uncheck the "Show in navigation" or "Visible" toggle for all the underlying sub-pages, leaving only the main landing page active. This forces the App wrapper to hide the left-hand navigation structure entirely, providing a clean, seamless experience where users are forced to use your custom buttons to move between the views.

     

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oussamahaimoud
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3 months ago

Hi bdherh,

Hope you're doing well!

 

The Pages pane toggle was moved. Here's exactly where it is:

File → Options and Settings → Options → Current File → Report Settings → Pages pane

Uncheck "Show pages pane" there.

However, that controls the authoring view. For deployed/published reports, the correct place is:

In the published report on Power BI Service → the Pages pane visibility is controlled via the report's View settings, but the definitive way to hide it for end users is:

In Power BI Desktop, go to View tab on the ribbon

Uncheck Page Navigator if visible, but more importantly:

Go to File → Options → Current File → Report Settings and uncheck "Show the pages pane"

When you publish after making that change, the pages pane will be hidden for viewers in the Service too.

 

Note: If you're on a newer version of Power BI Desktop and don't see it under Report Settings, check View → Page Navigator on the ribbon, toggling that off removes the pane entirely upon publish.

 

The confusion online exists because Microsoft moved this setting at least twice across versions, it used to be under View, then moved to Options.

 

Hope this helps! Don't forget to mark as solution and thumbs up if OK in order to keep helping others.

 

Best regards,

Oussama (Data Consultant - Expert Fabric & Power BI)

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bdherh
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3 months ago

Yes, I looked under that.  It does now show an option to hide the page navigator.  Under View in desktop, it does not show an option there either.