How to create a Drill through Button In Power BI

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The Drillthrough feature in Power BI functions as an indicator for a Power BI Report. With Drillthrough in power bi report, you can create a destination target page in your report. When report viewer right-click a Data point in other pages, they drillthrough automatically filtered to that context. You can set up drillthrough in your reports in your power Bi Desktop or Services.

Step-1: Create a Table visual to using Customer Name, category, Sub-category & Sales fields, this is Main Page .

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Step-2: Now Create a another page for  Drillthrough data, in that page drag on Clustered Column chart and display the below fields.


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Step-3: Now drag the field for which you want to show with drill through function into the Drill Through Fields.


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Step-4: Add one blank button to main page for using Drillthrough function with Button> Go to Insert Tab > Click to Buttons > select Blank Button.



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Step-5: Now select button & assign the name to button & set the basic format colors and shape . And don’t forget to select Action> Type : Drill through & Destination: Page Name.


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Step-6: Now select any Customer Name, Category & Sub category & click to button to using Drillthrough function Ctrl+ Click


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Step-7: Output of selected Data.

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Rahul Prajapati
Data Analyst
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