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Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

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Jake Carville on 21 Jan 2019 17:49:55

This idea has come about from the introduction of personal bookmarks in the PBI Service: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-personal-bookmarks-in-the-power-bi-service/

Many report creators use bookmarks as a dynamic way of showing/hiding visuals, or navigating between tabs. Exposing an end user to these bookmarks could be confusing for them and expose the underlying workings of the report.

Personal bookmarks are great, but an option in PBI Desktop to expose certain bookmarks in the PBI Service would satisfy both report creators and consumers.

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Steve Bedford on 02 May 2023 19:26:44

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

Why is this taking so long, Microsoft?

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Eveline De Bie on 13 Apr 2023 08:36:26

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

Would be of great value for our report consumers!

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Konstantinos Vlachos on 14 Mar 2023 18:53:14

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

This is a very useful feature because bookmarks are very often used for navigation and other UI interactions. I think a good solution would be to introduce a third bookmark category (Report and Personal Bookmarks already exist) named Navigation or Interaction Bookmarks and make them hidden by default or by selection.

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Edward Lutte on 05 Feb 2023 18:56:20

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

Definitely need this feature. For example, when using bookmarks for UI behavours - that showing the Bookmarks to end users is very confusing for...

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Matt Gibbs on 02 Feb 2023 09:58:43

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

This is a data security vulnerability for inexperienced users because it can expose areas of the report they thought were hidden. 4 years after initial suggestion and still not actioned by Microsoft. Poor

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Wasim Danawala on 29 Dec 2022 16:26:40

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

This feature is much needed considering our audience from varied groups and user experience

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Thomas Martens on 24 Dec 2022 10:40:54

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

With the Multiple Audiences feature in combination with a multi-report design some issues mentioned can be solved!Still, with the visibility of all bookmarks in the service, it is absolutely confusing for the end user, as the visibility of all the bookmarks e.g. used on a single page to "reset" slicers, makes no sense at all.It will be a great addition to Power BI's storytelling capabilities if a user can select a group of bookmarks to follow the path of a narration like " CEO presentation January 2022."Thanks,Tom

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Christopher Parker on 01 Dec 2022 19:14:54

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

This circumvents hiding of report pages. A user can access any hidden / non-published page via bookmarks. There can be one report page and 10 hidden with 1 bookmark on each report, and the user can access all 11. Terrible implementation.

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Niko Suomi on 16 Nov 2022 08:42:42

RE: Control which bookmarks are viewable in the service

Please, do it.

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Tao Jia chen on 09 Nov 2022 02:19:29

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100% need this feature!