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Ability to group report pages to organize them by subject

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jaguinaga on 07 Jun 2018 01:06:32

When you have 20, 30, 50 pages in a Report, it is hard to navigate. But also, 8 of them respond to a "Customer" perspective, and 5 of them to "Product" perspective, and so on. I suggest you can group pages behind a main theme (main page), so 50 pages show up like -say- 6 and behind each of the 6 the author can put the pages he considers appropriate. To navigate, when you clic a "main" page (one of the 6), one can peek at the pages below that (the tabs) so the user can go directly to a specific page or stay on the one in the top. Kind of Onenote style.

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on 07 Dec 2020 19:46:09

RE: Ability to group report pages to organize them by subject

Group Tabs within Power BI Desktop:

In Excel you can Group rows & columns and collapse and expand them.

It would be great to be able to Group tabs within a Power BI file... and then be able to expand and collapse them, especially as a report gets many tabs in it and you are forced to do a lot of left and right scrolling to reach various tabs to work on them.

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on 07 Dec 2020 19:36:02

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I want to Group the Tabs in Power BI say by POs and Invoice. Under POs I want to have multiple Tabs and Under Invoice I want to have Multipe Tabs

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Mathew Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:24

RE: Ability to group report pages to organize them by subject

This would be super helpful. As you start to get a lot of reports you need a way to organize them.

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Sander on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:51

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I often find myself in the situation where I have more visuals than I can fit on one page for a certain topic. Instead of working with bookmarks, making invisible pages, or some other solution, it would be great to group pages in a hierarchy. Page navigation could have collapsible/expandable pages, allowing for smoother navigation.

This also ties in really well with the new page navigation action.

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nhlahla on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:16

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I agree.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:19

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And color coding tabs

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Leonardo Elmor on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:05

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Index, Grouping tabs, hiding them would be much helpful.

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Cornschitt on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:22

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Solved: turn the report filters into page filters

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AndrewK on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:21

RE: Ability to group report pages to organize them by subject

Enable assigning pages in a report to sections.

Say your report was looking at customer lifecycle. Logical sections might be acquisition, engagement, and retention.

This would give greater clarity to a report page's subject. Section filters would streamline and add clarity to building reports as well.

Here's one example I'm working with now. I use the report filters to do exclude "bad" or "problematic" or "trivial" data from the dashboard. I would however like to have a section at the end of the report where these filters are not applied so that I can see exactly what/how much is being excluded -- and the workaround of turning the report filters into page filters is hard to maintain & time intensive. Sections + section filters would solve this.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:45

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It would be great if you could add a Menu option, in order to have a better navigation of the report itself. I mean, like grouping by pages. For example, I have a schema for my reports in Excel, and I group my sheets by different submenus, in Strategic level I group all my KPI's, in the Tactical Submenu I group all my charts and some tables, and in the Operational submenu, I group all tables with more detail, in Excel I use Hyperlink but in Power Bi can´t find a way. Thank you.

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