This is a great tip, much cleaner than the way I used to create toggle buttons using 2 overlapping button images! Will definitely be implementing this in to future reports. Great video as usual Bas
Great tip, as always! I’ve always used multiple images to achieve this, and getting the image with the exact size and colour for every project can be time consuming. This is definitely super efficient especially for mockups to present different options to end user before actually building the full report.
Great idea, Bas. I am always amazed at how you make these all tricks with visuals. Your videos are very inspiring. I did the toggle button as you showed in this video, but somehow I can't read off some very thin border around the border. The border color is the background color I chose for the button.
Hello, I've been on the BI landscape for a long time, but I'm just a beginner into Power BI world. I can say that your videos are a motivational source of inspiration to look for not-so-plain-not-so-funny reports/dashboards :) I'm sharing with my team, too. Thanks!
Something to be aware of is that not all Unicode characters are supported on Mac. So if you have users that will consume reports on a Mac then make sure you select a Unicode character supported on both Windows and Mac.
Hi Bas, as you may have noticed from multiple comments, the toggle text is not resizing and actually not even switching between 2 states. Maybe you can help us troubleshoot this issue. Thanks.
Maybe I solve it randomly. In the visual where you can apply settings to states if you change it to forexample selected from default and you start to resize there than go back to the default you can change the size normally It looks like a bug, but after changing the states it works perfectly fine for me I hope this help
Brilliant video, thank you Bas. One question though… I can’t resize the unichar for some reason? The number changes when I type it in but the symbol remains the same size?! Any ideas? Thank you.
Heck yes.... I'm in the middle of migrating my workspace to new data sources and the timing of your videos this week have been amazing you're going to cut my workload in half and make everything looks 100 times better b
built-in limitations of PBI text padding make it impossible to get this down to the required size. However with character U+26AB, I can manage it (but this cannot change colour unfortunately). Thanks for another amazing vid!
I saw the title and started building overlapping circles on a pill, then watched the much-better solution. Thanks. Keep up the great tips and techniques. How did you get the click sound effect ? LOL. Of course, you can make the main visual a high-level line, and the second visual a detailed report.
I used to add two overlapping toggles images and now I am trying to follow your method. But it turns out the text size doesn't change when I re-size it. I just updated my desktop version. Any suggestion?
You could also just find or create blank button import a custom icon that you just download from a icon library, and then just use the "icon" option switch between two costom icons with selected and deffault state, abit easier.
Thank you for the guidance! However, when I attempted to apply it, I encountered an issue with formatting the symbol. Do you have any advice on how to resolve this?
Thank you so much for showing us how to do this. I have built the toggle and it changes some filters but not all. It also doesn't filter the tables. When I click on 'edit interactions' no symbols show anywhere. How do I ensure the toggle filters all visuals please?
Super! Quick question, for some reason when I resize the button some sides of the padding doesnt work, specially the bottom and the left. Do I need to keep the size for a certain aspect?
Thank you for sharing. Have you also done a video in case you would like to add toggle buttons to other pages? Or does anyone from the comunity know how this could be done? it doesn't work with the same approach :) which seems to be obviously. Thank you!
Bas, your videos are awesome and help me a lot every day, so I feel thankful to have found you 😁 Is this possible de set a size chart with toggle ? Like on OFF its 600 width and on ON it's 300 width ? The idea behind is to show 1 graph rougly full size of the page, and on toggle ON it's show 3 graphs so all 3 get smaller to fit on the page ?
This is for bookmarks .. maybe check the last example of this video which shows an alternative toggle NEW Button Slicers in Power BI | 3 Examples You Don’t Want to Miss! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-czq-HRFQRnc.html
Just made this toggle button using images and its way too much hassle to manage if any changes are made in the report Thank you so much for this I didn't know about this Unicode characters idea
Very Nice. But how can I do it if I already have other bookmarks? Like I already have 2 bookmarks for other things, and I want to create this switch for new bookmarks.. When I insert the button, it shows me all 4 bookmarks.
Hello and thank you very much for this incredible tip ! I have a question, how do you manage to do another toggle button on another table of your report ? When I try to do another one it changes my first one.. Hope this is clear
Hello, thank you for these explanations. I use Power Bi and I have Toggle buttons. However, when I have filters, once I turn the toggle on or off, I have to redo my filter selection every time. Do you know if it is possible to leave the filters active while turning the toggle off and on? Thank you for your help.
Hi , Can you help me with my scenario. 1. I have added multiple 5 toggle button instead of 5 slicers. All 5 slicer is having yes or no value so i used toggle. 2. But case 1 :- each toggle is working independently. Case 2:- if user wants to apply 2 slicer then how it will work. Brother Please help me on this .
Hi Bas, after clicking on any slicer or datapoint, if we toggle the view, it again shows whole report rather it should the filtered report. How can it be achieved?
There is a new button slicer, you can now create it without bookmarks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CYwzUjgI2TA.htmlsi=FyrHWcRgSiqN1mAR
Beautifully presented and very clear, BUT... I can't get it to work the way you demonstrated. It's fine up to 3:31 where the bookmark manager 'toggles between two states'. The two states invoke the correct bookmark filters, but the text on the button remains the same regardless of which way round I set the group, the bookmark and the deselection bookmark. By making the text of the main bookmark "Show / Hide Filters" I can deliver a usable solution because that text makes sense in both contexts but it is not as satisfying as your unicode trick. I tried it on multilple reports across different machines with different versions of PBI installed. Clearly I am missing a step, being remarkably stupid, or both. Either way I would LOVE some guidance here because your toggle switch is such an elegant and efficient solution (if only I could get it to work!
Thx for this high quality content! One question about additional tools, do u recommend to use software like Figma for dashboards design purposes or u think that power point is just enough?
