Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

Configuring drillthrough filters

As we have seen with Power BI, we are limited to the space that is given to us within each report page, so we have to make the most of what we are given. Until now, that is. The main purpose of the drillthrough feature is to allow communication between two pages in your Power BI report. You can now create a page within your report that focuses on something very specific and detailed that you might have left out because there wasn't enough room on the page that had visuals relating to this data. Now you can use drillthough filters on that focused page, and your users can right-click on any data point on any other report page and they will be taken to the focused report, which will be filtered by whatever context ...