How to use drill through in Power BI This short guide shows you how quickly and easily you can add a rich data exploration function to your reports

1. Using Drill Through

2. Why set up a drill through?
Drill through is a powerful way to let
your report users explore deeper
into the data behind a visual
Built in drill through features in
Power BI allow you to set up a right
click driven drill through to a more
detailed report
In this example we will set up a drill
through from a high level summary,
through to a best sellers report
showing the top 20 items in that
category, subcategory or country

3. First step….Set up a drill through target page
As this is a retail example, we will set up
a best sellers page to help us see the
most significant products
Here we have set up a top 20 table of
Models by Sales Amount
Typically the sales are driven by a few
strong items at the top of the list with a
long ‘tail’ of smaller items which make
up the balance

4. Step 2. Set the drill through filters
On this new page,
We need to select the visual we want to
drill through to
We want to keep all applied filters, in
the Drillthrough section of
the Visualizations pane, set Keep
all filters to On.
New set the filter fields you want to
pass from the other report pages to
filter down your best sellers
Here we will select Category,
Sub Category and Country

5. Drill through from relevant visuals
Now we can go back to any of our other
pages and we can see a drill through
option showing where the relevant
Category, Sub Category or Country fields
are used in the visual

6. Hope you found this useful

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