Mastering Power BI Bookmarks 

Bookmarks can give that 'application' feeling and are super easy to use. Thanks for sharing this Adam. I learned one can group bookmarks. That was new to me. Also, I've noticed it helps in your productivity to 1. Name each object in the selection pane from the start. It comes back throughout the entire development process. 2. Group items that belong together and base your bookmark state on the groups. This also makes it easy to add new items to a group without the need to change the bookmarks. Keep crushing it! BI Gorilla

Bookmarks are my go-to for taking my reports to the next level. They make everything so intuitive and clean.

I was today years old when I learned that clicking on the word "Bookmark" collapses it like Visualizations and Fields?!?!?!...how could I not have known that after using PBI for soooo long...Thanks for that btw ;-)

Way to fast and all over the place

This video is too fast to even understand what you are doing at each point. Please slow down a bit for beginners. Thanks

I don't understand what you did.

Mind blown...I could've clicked on the name to hide those panes.... after ALL THIS TIME.... what the heck?!

Thanks SO much Adam!! This video helped me solve several issues, one major issue being when we would click a button/bookmark, all other slicers/visuals would reset.. was such a major pain point for my team. I never understood why "Selected visuals" wasn't working for me.. then it CLICKED (pun intended :) )! And I LOVE the tip to only collapse but not close bookmarks/selections, I was constantly closing/opening these panels! Thank you @Markbdi!! BANANAS

Thanks for this, Adam. The 'Current Page' option name doesn't make any sense (to me, anyway - I guess that is why I have always struggled to understand what it actually does), but I can't think of an alternative name that could be used.

triggering Bookmars with Dax would be crate.. like Pagenavigation and Drill thtrough

Was difficult to understand.

OMG 😱😱😱 2:14 Thank you!!!!

Hi there! Thank you for all the great videos! We use a lot of bookmarks, because we have to deal with a lot of requests and specific views, however I was really looking for something which I can't make right now. Is there a possibility to have a bookmark acting on multiple pages? or 2 bookmarks sync to each other? Any suggestion workaround is appreciated! Thank you, Pamela

Is there a way I can have visuals affected by the buttons? Ie: I click my "Net Units" button, and then the "Actuals", I get sales data for this year only. Then, I click "Vs "LY" and it changes to how my sales are doing vs last year. Then repeat this for Gross Margin $, Gross Margin % and Net Sales?

Great job Adam! thanks for this wonderful video. I am currently working with on report with multiple visuals. I use Toggle with the bookmarks. I am having trouble selecting multiple (2 or more) toggles at the same time and bookmarked them, bookmarks defaults to a single toggle selection. Do you have any recommended way or resource to fix this?

Started using the 'Selected Visuals' option since recently after you talked about it in an earlier video. It's a fantastic way to limit the number of visuals on a page or the need for different reportpages and give the users indeed that 'app-like' feeling. So, thanks for (all) your videos. They sure do help in taking my Power BI report to the next level.

Q: Report having 10 columns like A, b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k how to display the first 5 columns and display the remaining 5 columns using bookmark

That's all great. However, I've created and published a report so it now falls under Power BI service; this report pulls info from a live document which lives in SharePoint. I need to update it with some bookmarks. Creating bookmarks is a bit cumbersome to do. Are there any videos on how to do this effectively using Power BI Service?

It would be nice to have "Not Selected Visuals" as an option. I have more than 30 visuals on page (half of them are hidden under Tabs), it is tricky to select them and click Update bookmark

sorry, any update for 2023? try to connect the button with the bookmark I created but doesn't work but I try in the bookmark itself its working well. already followed steps how to connect [button -> action/bookmark/bookmark name] please advise

Flipping through the pages "back to here, over to there" so quickly is quite hard to follow. Quite frankly, I don't understand why you chose to do it this way. It's just poor instruction.

Coming from Qliksense, Power BI seems to lacking a few things .. such as multiple actions per button (filter and then show a new page in one button). Some of the quirky stuff like clicking the name instead of the X makes the product look immature. I'm still learning all the quirks, thanks for the video

Thanks! Is there a way to save a bookmark-design (for a page-navigation or filter-panel) which you can use on every page? Just copy page and bookmark is related to the copied page? We are creating a new report-design for our company and struggeling how to set up an report template which already contains page navigation, filter panel, footline (openable) etc. Thanks!

Thnks Adam. Is it possible to change visual rows with Bookmarks?. I mean, can i have a bookmark navigator button that shows especific visual with line headers like year, client, product and another bookmark button to show the same visual but with client, year, product line headers ?. I can do it having a copy of the visual and hiding or showing the correspondent layout for the button selection, but it's a tedious workaround.

Hi Mister! Interesting video title. Unfortunately the access to demo file doesnt work, there is no email in my account or an option to download pbix.file. Can you please fix? Withouth this, information are muss less useful

Hi Adam, how did you set up the info image at 10:34? How did you control the size of the image to fit in with the background visuals and also the background transparency?

I don't know that we can do these many combinations. Also this improves performance.

Is it possible to set up a various bookmarks at various pages of a same worksheet in powerbi??? Bcoz everytime I am using bookmark it's counting on a single page bookmark list 😅 I want it separate! How to do it ?

When I change report name and publish to service...end-users' bookmarks no longer work. How to resolve this?

I Have applied your idea of swap visuals in my PBI dashboard in summary report for management view and I want to share my appreciation with you guys,thank you.just one request please think about if you can brainstorm about the swap visuals working with Slicer s somehow

So I am definitely down the rabbit hole of learning bookmarks and this is fantastic! Can anyone help me with how to keep the selections on the slicer panel when you switch from bookmark to bookmark?

Could you make a better example on how to use beginning to end? Please? Something with/for matrices.

Thank you for this deep dive into bookmarks this and the last view - Snap Power visuals got me out of a big hole I was digging for myself 😂👍👍

I felt like you could have used some better examples for this. Following your videos for a long time.

My bookmark also removes the "Filters on this page" in the filters pane. Is there a way to work around this?

I like to use bookmarks as much as i can because i feel like it makes my report more professional, unfortunately i see one huge drawback and that is when i select a section of pie chart for it to interact with the rest of the visuals it is only limited to the current shown bookmark, as soon as i switch bookmarks the selection of pie chart is gone.

Please do one more video on SELECTED VISUALS IN Bookmarks

Regarding the hide and show filters menu, is there a way to have a filter dropdown instead of a list? I tried that but when the menu pops up it changes the filter dropdown to a list.

Hi Mr. Adam, Do you have a technique or solution on how to use DAX or any other method using a button with bookmarks to SELECT as a default the first record in a table visual in PBI. And I mean whenever the end-user opens the page by default the first record on the first table visual will be selected. I have a table visual with a list of names with a add_date on the first column and want to make sure that when the user opens this page in PBI the first row is selected. I love your clarity and way of explaining things on technical solutions. Hope to hear from you and hope to find the best solution possible with your awesome help "a big fan of Guys in Cube" J

for some reason even when I select the visuals and update, it sometimes changes them on all bookmarks. Anyone else have this issue?

Wow. So much content in such a short time. I’m new. I’ve been doing QlikView for years and am transitioning apps to Power Bi (argh). I can’t find a way to give users a direct path to a specific view/layout/selections. We could embed bookmarks in the url for our QV apps. I can’t find a way to do that with PBi. Any suggestions?

Brilliant, much awaited video. Bookmarks are always confusing but very useful.

Is there a way to save some of these behaviors to be the default so every new selection view you make defaults to selected visuals instead of all visuals?

Adam is not as cool as Patrick (no one is) but he's just as awesome.

The video is not well structured and too fast to be a tutorial. It's not really a good one, guys!

Q.Could please do a video on that collapse/expand the menu one that we used in this report?

Hi I am getting this error while refreshings a data in power bi service it comes some times and completes successfully others Error: error":{"code":"DM_GWPipeline_Gateway_TimeoutError","pbi.error":{"code":"DM_GWPipeline_Gateway_TimeoutError","parameters":{},"details":[],"exceptionCulprit":1}}} while in power bi desktop data is refreshing easily Any help here Please

please slow down, internationals can't follow u!!!!!

i guess i have to watch the end part more than 10 times , 2 gone still , mehh , but thx

I'm running into an issue with the Selected Visuals bookmark control. I'm trying to keep a slicer value the same, but change the data (and filters) with a couple of bookmarks. I've used the Selected Visuals option on both of my bookmarks and selected all of the visuals except for the slicer. The slicer value remains unchanged as it should, but the filters are not being saved with the bookmarks. I do have Data selected in the bookmark options for both bookmarks. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

How can we get a note in power bi after we export to excel sheet.For ex Note:some text need to be come in excel sheet

How to stop the interaction between the bookmarks? Eg - Say I've got 2 separate visuals each one of them are having different bookmarks, now the issue is if I select 3rd bookmark on the 1st visual and 2nd bookmark on the 2nd visual, then the 1st visual automatically gets reset and shows the data within its 1st bookmark. Is there a way to handle this? Essentially, I don't want my bookmarks for either of the visuals to interact with each other.

Really took a lot of time to learn this. Video is great. But to remember and understand is difficult for the first time especially the ALL Visuals and SELECTED Visuals.

thanks so much for this video... in special the part about Only selected visuals.. thats tricky to get but now I think I made it work and it is very powerfull!

Great video, thank you! I'm using bookmarks to switch between times series and bar. If I click on eg Jan in time series and then click on bar chart bookmark, how do I only see data for Jan ?

It's Powerful Information.. Keep Teaching us, And we are supporting you

Thanks for sharing your video. I have an issue where I hope you can help. I have a Matrix of KPI's that I want to show the graphs associated with the indicator. For this, I created a panel with a group of charts. I want the user to be able to show or hide the panel so for this I created bookmarks for show/hide panel. My problem is witht the state of the panel. when I click button to show the chart group, it reverts back to the original slicer I had when I created the bookmark. I tried toggling off "data" but now it does not refesh the datA in the group. Is there a workaround for this?

I have a scenario where I need to use two date slicers and when I switch between the slicers I only want the selection from the current visible slicer to filter my visual

great video. A challenge that has not been discussed is what if you are taking over from another developer a power bi where book mark is heavily used with "selected visual" - many of them hidden filters !!! is this a nightmare situation? How can you identify which visuals are effected by a book mark with "selected visuals" ticked ? I can handle complex dax but maybe not when the power bi is made up of complex bookmarks !!

I am going to put this channel name in my resume like I keep myself updated from this channel.

thanks Guys it's Very helpful

Thanks for the video! I've used bookmarks but didn't know about All visuals / Selected visuals... Great idea to apply bookmarks to create a slicer panel! :)

Thank you! This has helped me to resolve why my Bookmark navigator buttons weren't behaving!

Jesus Christ, i got a problem in bookmarks level but here everything revealed. that's spectacular one

It would be interesting for me to discuss the effect of bookmarks on interaction editing. From what I noticed, bookmarks do not preserve the interaction between visualizations. Or maybe I missed something?

Is there a way to print all the bookmark views?

Very useful, especially All vs Selected. Bookmarks are a pain, but you've made my life a bit easier, thank you for this

Thank you! I was going crazy, trying to update someone else's bookmarks and hadn't noticed that All Visuals was selected. Going to go and watch all your other videos now.

Unable to receive sample file by e-mail.

Hi I have used bookmarks to recreate a monthly meeting deck which has similar view but filter only changes with product and sales region . But when I export as ppt from server I only get one slide the first one. Does that mean I need to create in desktop version itself different tab to mimic slides and then only I will be able to extract full slide deck or is there any work around

Was struggling with the 'Selected Visuals' but this vid clarifies it perfectly - thank you again! Your channel has helped me numerous times :)

Excellent explanation of the complexity (and power) of bookmarks. I love them, but have often overwhelmed myself. Knowing the details will help me avoid making more than I need.

If you have data that is on a rolling 13 month period and you wanted to bookmark a report specific date but over time some of that data drops off as it moves forward, will the bookmark still work? I guess what I am asking, does the data need to exist in the table to recreate that bookmark? Or does it take a snapshot of the data at the time of creating it?

Slow TF down bro. Some of us are here to learn.

I wanted to use the "Selected visuals" option to avoid some drop downs (slicers) from being reset at each bookmark. But the selected visuals option ignores the filters set on the page level. Did anyone else face this issue? Is there solution to this? For anyone else struggling, a possible solution is to have page level filters implemented as slicers (hidden) and then use the selected visuals option.

Whoa where's the video on making those selection panels on the left side? Those are amazing.

Hello Adam, What is the use case of "Current Page" option in the Bookmark?

ohhhhh thank youuuuu so soo much ... it was frustrating the hell out of me... while creating a pop up menu and visual swap ...

i keep getting the setting for one bookmark overwriting other bookmarks, how do i stop this?

Hey Adam, is there a way to have cross-filtering between two visuals that are in two different bookmarks?. Thanks for your help.

Can you do the "Selected Visuals" option across multiple pages? Example would be if you have a few pages with a slicer panel like that and you want the slicer panel to stay showing even if they navigate to a second page.

Damn, this would've come in handy 2 weeks ago. I created a report page that has multiple toggles: toggle between units and dollars. And toggle the line chart between weekly and cumulative sales (for both units and dollars, so 4 line charts are in use!) It was a pain to get every visual to work the way it's supposed to, but after watching this video I have a couple of ideas on how to simplify that process in the future. Thanks!

I have spent two days to make a complicated dashboard with many bookmarks like you show at the end of the video. With this video ı learned more things about bookmarks .

Thanks 😊 for this. It's really helpful thanks a lot..

that is too fast to be useful for beginners

SO helpful! Is it possible to create a table visual containing a column of bookmark links to report pages without the need for buttons?

I spent all weekend trying to get my bookmarks to work and all I had to do was highlight them all. Thanks for the tips!

Thank you

I just want to know who added the dislikes for this or any of your videos?! Awesome content. Thank you!

this is really insightful. I was wondering what the selected visual does. now I think I could up my power bi visual game.

OK, I give up. How do you rename a bookmark by just overtyping a new name - about 3:23. I only seem to be able to right-click and rename. Using April 2021 release

Great video. But recorded too fast. Slow it down a bit if possible please.

This was fun! I'll love using this in my next report :)

Hi very great video, i'm wondering how can i share my bookmark when i'm using Power BI online. My business wants to share with me a situation and it's more easy to use a personal bookmark

Well done on not mashing your lines when you were busy show/hide triangles/circles :)

Man believe me you are the only one explain this on youtube, really appreciated since i was searching for that. Thanksssssssssssssssssssss

Could you please upload or share with us a sample data which you are using in your reports? thanks for the video

Sample cant be downloadeed

Just really started using bookmarks in more complex reports recently and this video has given me plenty of ideas. Thankyou keep the videos coming please 👍🏽