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Power BI: Explore The New Bookmarks Pane Feature

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Introduction

In this article, we will explore the new **Bookmarks Pane Feature **that introduced in Power BI October 2017 update.

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What's Bookmarks Pane Feature?

Bookmarks Pane is a new preview feature that announced in Power BI October 2017 update.

  • It's a powerful way to save and share out your insights.
  • It lets you save interesting states as part of your report.
  • It works as a report navigation for your report.
  • It helps you to organize and make presentations of your report.

How to use Bookmarks Pane in Power BI?

By default, the Bookmarks Pane is not available because of it's still a preview feature.

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So you should enable it in the preview features section as the following:

Enable Bookmarks Pane

  • Open Power BI.
  • File > Options and Settings > Options.
  • From the left side, below Global > Select Preview Features.
  • Check the Bookmarks preview feature.
  • Go back to View tab > The Bookmarks Pane should be now shown.

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Add Bookmarks

 In this example, we have a report with different control like chart, table, and Slicer, we will try to add new bookmarks based on the selected slicers value.

  • Open your report via Power BI.
  • Filter your report based on a selected slicer value.
  • Go to View Tab > check the Bookmarks Pane option.
  • Click add, and rename the bookmark as you prefer.
  • Try now to filter with another value then go back to open Bookmarks Pane.
  • Click on the saved bookmark to show your report based on the saved setting.

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Note: When you add a bookmark to your report, it will include the following:

    • The current page.
    • Filters & Slicers & Sort order.
    • Drill location.
    • Any of the “focus” modes.

View Bookmarks

In the Bookmarks Pane, you can easily add multiple bookmarks and show it one by one, you can also show your bookmarks as a story or in a presentation by using View option as the following:

  • As above mentioned, add another bookmark with a new set.
  • Click on the View option in the Bookmarks list to show your bookmarks with a navigation bar.
  • Use the below navigation bar to go next and previous among your bookmarks.

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Reorder Bookmarks

In the Bookmarks Pane, you can also reorder the save bookmark as you prefer by drag the bookmark up and down as the following:

  • Open your report via Power BI.
  • Go to View Tab > check the Bookmarks Pane option.
  • The saved bookmarks should be shown, drag the bookmark up and down as you prefer.

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Delete Bookmarks

In the Bookmarks Pane, you can also delete the saved bookmark as the following:

  • Open your report via Power BI.
  • Go to View Tab > check the Bookmarks Pane option.
  • The saved bookmarks should be shown, select your bookmark that you need to delete.
  • Click on Eclipse '...' > select delete to deleted the selected bookmark.

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Conclusion 

In this article, we have explored the Bookmarks Pane in Power BI.

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