Power BI PAGE NAVIGATION Panel | HOW TO easily create with Bookmarks & Buttons

In this video, I will walk you through on how to easily create a custom PAGE NAVIGATION PANEL in Power BI with Bookmarks & Buttons. You will also learn many visualization tips and tricks along the way.
Creating a page navigation menu with a pane to navigate to different Power BI report pages is super easy when you know how to use the bookmarks and the Selection Pane well. I have used the latest buttons features released in September 2021 Power BI Desktop update in the above video to build a great page navigation experience. This is a Power BI desktop Tutorial video aimed at beginners and above.
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⏲ Video Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Start - Adding Buttons and Shapes
10:44 Creating and assigning Bookmarks to Buttons and Objects
20:39 Adding Data to Create Visuals
21:54 End
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[@paulmuldoon9671]

This was a great and very helpful video for someone like myself getting more familiar with PowerBI, using buttons, and creating a nav menu. I hope to take all these tips and work to build a similar mobile layout. Just a tip if anyone needs them. The background image, and white/yellow menu icons can be pulled from the sample file if you change the file format to zip and open the zip archive.

[@joebashour]

Thank you for putting this simple yet comprehensive overview of how to create page navigators in Power BI. It was definitely inspirational and helpful!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful

[@ernestosantos6763]

Excellent demo! This is what I was looking for.

[@hsinjulee0225]

Your explaination and steps are so clear and super helpful. Thank you!!

[@olenaoleary7218]

Very professional attitude! Lots to learn from you. Thank you

[@stalinr6226]

Explained well, thanks man! 👍🏽

[@soumyajeetmitra6958]

Thank You! Great Learning experience

[@laviteshvlogs5877]

Thanks for this valuable video, it will help me transfrom my Power BI reports completely.

[@AhmadBELAL-fs6sx]

Wooow. This was really amazing. Thank you for the great tutorial.

[@heanpichkosal8683]

Thank you for the great tutorial.

[@davefaust78]

This video helped me create a dynamic dashboard with such amazing functionality. My manager loved incorporating a navigation panel in my latest project, and I received very high remarks. Thank you for creating such a clear tutorial. Every dashboard I create going forward will have a cool variation on this navigation panel.

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it helped!

[@lazolangcengula9511]

This is absolutely amazing!

[@zamansshorts]

Thank you for your effort! Great and very infomrative video!

[@jeffersonsantos6534]

Great Video!!!
Thank you for sharing

[@adafox4278]

Amazing video. Thank you so much.

[@thegeoster]

This was super informative and very clear. I’ve personally been challenged by the nuances of display selection, etc., and the way you demonstrated everything was clear, concise, and easy for me to replicate on my own. Thank you for this!

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks and appreciate it

[@pinstripeowl]

Thank you for this video - it was really clear to understand and it looks great - I'm currently trying to figure out the best way to set up navigation for a report and this was really inspiring

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful

[@stefanh.1668]

A great Instruction, many many thanks ❤

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andredeoliveira3684]

Amazing! This is the best explanation that I've ever seen about bookmarks

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you think so!

[@mohammadrafishaik3533]

your explanation very clear..excellent

[@AkshayPatil-si2kz]

This is a great video. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@ExcelFort]

Appreciate it

[@Td101_31]

Thx this was so helpful 😃

[@aleksad.4549]

Thank you for this video! It's working perfectly!!!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it helped!

[@wilsongalucho1142]

Great tutorial!!

[@joanneosborne2428]

Amazing. Thank you for this tutorial.

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you like it!

[@sameermathur9196]

Excellent Video and perfect explanation.. Extremely helpful !!

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks 🙏

[@UnifiedCodist]

This is a very useful tutorial. Thank you for this. hope you create more tips and tricks. Appreciate you man!

[@ExcelFort]

More to come!

[@Tanveer9837]

Amazing creativity and thanks for sharing this wonderful tutorial!

[@ExcelFort]

My pleasure 😊

[@cosmosocran1424]

Great job! Gracias mucho!

[@abhijeetshetye3764]

Very helpful video… tysm😊

[@akeelkurishi7668]

Thank you for this video and it looks great.

[@ExcelFort]

Thank you too!

[@janardhanansgm521]

Fantastic!! There is no word to express my gratitude..👌💥🙏😊

[@ExcelFort]

So nice of you

[@tameraziz2104]

Excellent work and sharing... thank you.

[@ExcelFort]

You are most welcome

[@olisaemekaaghabuilo8688]

This I will say is uniquely informative. Thank you for making out time to create this wonderful tutorial.

[@ExcelFort]

Appreciate it

[@rai_nav]

Really useful video. Thank you!!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kayeearlbufete6032]

Very informative and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you

[@ExcelFort]

You are welcome!

[@joelngige5776]

Super helpful and great learning on how to utilize book marks and buttons. 👍👍

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks and appreciate it

[@ericaunzo717]

Awesome video. You made it look so easy. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you.

[@thanhtungang4313]

Excellent guidance man!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it helped!

[@osPA78]

This was a very informative video. Thank you for putting this video together and sharing it.

[@ExcelFort]

You are welcome 🙏

[@agungprstio]

Hi, thanks for this great explanation. Really helpful and very informative

[@ExcelFort]

You are most welcome

[@Visableonyoutube3]

Thank you so much. This is very informative and will help me a ton. Tysm!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you liked it

[@priscillabatterie347]

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@prabhatn]

Very informative tutorial. It really helps with clear instructions. Appreciate your effort on this.

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mahran34]

Excellent work

[@ketanshah1389]

Very much informative video. I was facing issue at navigation across Book Mark, but understanding of Group concepts made navigation very easy. Need more information if I select / filter using slicers and using navigation I can see relevant data on next page.

[@BlakeC341]

Amazing design.

[@aryansena7290]

Awesome design idea.

[@ExcelFort]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@AliBuKarrar]

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks, share with others, let them also get the benefit:)

[@lemonslice7286]

Thanks for this, there is an issue if your end user want to export the report, the navigation pane remains open on the page you've just navigated from, so on the export pdf or powerpoint the nav pane is showing. I couldn't find a way to overcome this.

[@workstuff5253]

Really nicely explained - thank you

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks 🙏

[@Robay146]

Thank you!

[@ExcelFort]

You're welcome!

[@huseyindalgc6941]

Great video, thanks for sharing

[@ExcelFort]

You are most welcome and appreciate it

[@didimoescobar2247]

Awesome Tutorial !!!!!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you liked it!

[@vidya9587]

Excellent info

[@lijunchen]

Thanks for the wonderful video with detailed instructions on creating the popup page navigation panel. I also likes the background image you inserted. Do you have a video on how to create a Power Point background image? Also with the new page navigation feature in Power BI, can we just add a page navigation pane without creating separate buttons for each page? Thanks.

[@saadatmane9101]

Amazing job!!

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you like it!

[@nkosanamathe1302]

Hi, thank you for this video it is very informative for me. how do I go about adding an icon after clicking "custom" under shape list? my version does not give the option to add an image.

[@nataliiaiatsenko7779]

The BEST!

[@trustnonor5139]

Thanks ❤

[@Asyouwish145]

Good effort and nice presentation with pin point too

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@regismarie4056]

nice and beautifully professional. Congrat'

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks for your encouragement

[@adelalharbi3834]

thank you help me alot many thanks

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful

[@pramothkj1754]

thank you sir

[@yahoobolt]

this ones nice thanks

[@shubham7564]

Really helpful, great work

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EXCELLENTDK83]

Cool, Keep it up👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@AbouElmajd]

Thank you so much for this informative video. you're just simply amazing. i learned alot from this video.

[@ExcelFort]

You are so welcome!

[@ozansen_ozibaba]

Wonderful.

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks 🙏

[@keyushshah7295]

Thank you for the amazing explanation, it was really helpful, thanks.
Also, just wanted to check if you have any video on end to end power BI projects.
I am gonna surely work on the same, if there is. Thanks again!

[@ExcelFort]

Sorry, I haven't made any end-to-end projects in Power BI. This looks like a good idea for a future video.

[@User1212swaa]

great indeed

[@muhammadimron8958]

a lot of thks very helpfull

[@ExcelFort]

You're welcome!

[@3danim8r1]

Nice one

[@gilsonjunior_narrador]

Thank you Sir for sharing !! If we use in a different size video, all png and charts will be automaticaly resized ?

[@ingridgwladys2827]

Thanks so much for this video. Great tips. I am working on a program and would love to have pages and subpages. With pages representing a project and subpages their corresponding reports. As an example : sales, cost, profit overview could be subpages to each project within the same program.
This will require each page to have a summary scroll down which when click on list all of the subpages and reclicked shows only the page.
Any chance you share tips on this please please. Truly appreciate all you share for free over here.

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks for watching the video
I will try to crate a video on how to create such navigation

[@isaddam7]

Awesome Video.

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks for the visit

[@prasadk5082]

Awesome 👍

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks 🤗

[@philipposorfanos209]

Great video. I am not sure if you covered this, but when I go back again to a page (I have already opened previously), the page navigation on the left remains open. How can we fix that so whenever we go back to a previously opened page to find it in a close format?

[@venkatareddykummitha5863]

Thanks for your Lesson from Basics to Pro. Do A video on Bring Forward/Send Forward Tabs.

[@ExcelFort]

Noted!
You can watch this webinar that I did for the UK Power BI User Group.
czcams.com/video/Ohuv9eYK1OY/video.html

[@Moon_Rise6393]

Hey bro
Round of applause for this video. You made life simpler by this video.
I'm now a big fan of you.
Also requesting to create a video where we can do something totally different from the bottuns and navigation.
Thanks

[@ExcelFort]

Sure I will

[@ssomtom]

Great and amazing

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks

[@joaozinhobc2015]

tks!

[@Kathirat3i]

Aweesome...

[@mustafasalihates2866]

Great video

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks for the visit

[@Moon_Rise6393]

Great Bro👌

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks for the visit

[@andresfelipe4092]

This video is just great. The panel is very useful, thanks for sharing it.
Do you know where I can get a home button that has a white outline? just like the ones you have. All the ones I look for have black outlines.

[@ExcelFort]

Appreciate it.
I use this website to make icons.
logomakr.com/

[@sebastianbaenaaristizabal6176]

First of all excellent video cristal clear, I just want to know why I dont have the same formates that you have, for example when I create a button I dont have shape option, or the custom buttun in order to put and image instead the default images

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks!
Make sure you have the latest Power BI Desktop version downloaded

[@nehajadhav2770]

Thanks for this! Looks amazing! On top of opening different reports, I am also looking for an option where the opening report can be filtered based on button click by passing parameter. Do you know how we can achieve this?

[@ExcelFort]

Glad it was helpful!
I am not sure if it's possible pass parameters, if you could explain more, it will help me understand your question better.

[@pieterlinden8292]

@@ExcelFort In SSRS, you can open a report and pass parameters to it, filtering the report, so you get a subset of the data (I think you do it with a bookmark and the Data property).

[@Marcsku]

Thanks for this! Looks amazing!
I use the app function to share my report with the users (because of the navigation).
But this means that 15% of the screen is always navigation. So this solution is extremely helpful.
Can you tell how to hide all the std navigation panes?

[@ExcelFort]

Appreciate it,
The Std navigation pane cannot be hidden,

[@04mdsimps]

Hi folks, really cool video. Assuming by standard navigation panel you mean the power bi service page navigation, you can simply hide the tabs except your primary tab(featuring the cool navigation featured in this video). You will still be able to navigate to the hidden tabs

[@saxhigh]

Hi Fowmy, thanks for this. Is there a better solution now using the new navigation button panels in combination say with the collapsing panel but without the overhead of the navigation bookmarks?

[@ExcelFort]

Yes, I did a webinar for a User Group recently where I demonstrated a technique but using the Bookmark Navigator.
Here is the link: czcams.com/video/cTByAaXZjKw/video.html

[@CountryViewMeadows]

so good! Can you explain the reason for selecting the menu objects before creating the bookmark? thank you

[@ExcelFort]

I wanted to apply the bookmarks only on selected objects so that later when we add visuals they won’t be affected. I selected the objects and set SELECTED VISUALS IN the bookmark property to accomplish that.

[@obreychuunda2756]

Is it possible to apply different filters as drop downs to the visuals in each page?

[@simranbansal2309]

Thank you so much for this video which is so clear and helpful. Also, the way you have explained it step by step was appreciable. Keep it going. Good Job

[@jsym741]

Great video. When I go to update my bookmarks, however, they both update so I cannot get the button functionality to work. Any ideas on this?

[@tushantsahu2468]

Thanks

[@ExcelFort]

🙏

[@stefanocoppola8802]

thanx for this tutorial, really helpfull and useful! .....but I have a trouble.....cause when I show or hide the right tabs (for example the visualization tab of power BI) the shapes and background move and the impagination doesn't remain locked adn/or it doesn't adapt itself......where am I wrong? thanks

[@ExcelFort]

Glad you like it!
It looks like an strange issue, I haven't faced it. Publish your file to Power BI service and check if the locations of the shapes change.

[@gabriel65454]

Excellent video. I did all the steps and it worked. all perfect. thanks for sharing. Only I have a doubt, when I created a bookmark, when I choose selected visualizations, did not work, I had to choose all visuals, and then it worked. Do you know why? thanks.

[@ExcelFort]

Thanks!
Before creating the bookmarks, make sure you open the Selection Pane, select the Visuals+Objects pressing CTRL then choose the option All Selected Visuals in the Bookmark

[@vishaljhaveri7565]

At 7:56 what type of button did you choose? And how you were able to disable the visualizations on that page.?

[@michaelthompson7054]

Thank you for this video. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this always defaulting to the Menu objects being open when moving from one page to the next (although admittedly it seems to be worse in Chrome). There is always an extra click required when going to the next page. It confuses the users. I've probably set something incorrectly. Greatly appreciate any advice on this. When using this, it would also be nice to remove the default navigation Pages menu that Power BI forces by default, otherwise there are always two navigation menus. The purpose of this for me was to give max screen size and width for those using smaller laptops. Appreciate any help on this. Thanks

[@prachigorwadkar6969]

Amazing video, thank you for sharing. One query, can we have the same bookmark for 2 different pages?

[@ExcelFort]

If it was possible, I would have saved a lot of work:).
Actually, bookmarks are specific to the objects that used at the time of creating them so you cannot dynamically change from page to page. Hope you got it