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Add a drillthrough action on a paginated report (Power BI Report Builder)

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The Power BI paginated report that opens when you select the link in the main paginated report is known as a drillthrough report. This drillthrough link enables a drillthrough action.

When you're publishing to the Power BI service, you must publish drillthrough reports to the same workspace as the main report. You can add a drillthrough link to any item that has an Action property, such as a text box, an image, or data points on a chart.

To add a drillthrough link to a report, you must first create the drillthrough report that the main report will link to. A drillthrough report commonly contains details about an item that is contained in the original summary report, and often contains parameters that filter the drillthrough report based on parameters passed to it from the main report. For more information on creating the drillthrough report, see Drillthrough Reports (Report Builder).

Add a drillthrough action

  1. In Design view, right-click the text box, image, or chart to which you want to add a link and then select Properties.

  2. In the item's Properties dialog box, select Action.

  3. Select Go to report. Additional sections appear in the dialog box for this option.

  4. In Specify a report, type the name of the report. Alternatively, select the expression (fx) button to create an expression for the report name.

  5. In Use these parameters to run the report, select Add. A new row is added to the parameter grid.

    • In the Name text box, type the name of the report parameter in the drillthrough report.

      Note

      The names in the parameter list must match the expected parameters in the target report exactly. For example, parameter names must match by case. If the names do not match, or if an expected parameter is not listed, the drillthrough report fails.

    • In Value, type the value to pass to the parameter in the drillthrough report.

      Note

      Values can contain an expression that evaluates to a value to pass to the report parameter. The expressions in the value list include the field list for the current report.

    For information on how to hide parameters in reports, see Create parameters for paginated reports in the Power BI service.

  6. (Optional) For text boxes, it is helpful to indicate to the user that the text is a link by changing the color and effect of the text on the Home tab of the Ribbon.

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