- Yooo! What's up? This is Patrick from Guy in a Cube. And in this video, I'm gonna show you how to take page navigation (text popping) to the next level. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm just gonna show you how easy it is to set up page navigation with the new page navigator
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both Adam and this guy. Okay. Page navigation can be a pain in the to maintain and to set up. They did make it easier when they allowed the new page navigation option for buttons and before the page
navigation option came out, we would set up bookmarks
and then setup the state, and then create them all and have all these
bookmarks for all our pages. But to maintain it across multiple pages, it can be cumbersome. It can be something that
is not very enjoyable. Well, in the latest release
of the Power BI desktop, they actually made it so much simpler and that's what I'm gonna
show you in this video. So you guys know how I like to do. Instead of all this
talking, let's do what? Let's head over to my laptop. We've set up this report
where the United States is the landing page. And then we focus on California and Texas, because that's our big money states and we added these buttons at the top to navigate across the pages. And you can see if I go to California, it'll bring me to the
United States in Texas and if I go to Texas, it'll bring me to the
United States in California. It's a pretty comprehensive
navigation here. But what if I wanted to add a new page? (text popping) What if I wanted to reorder things? What if I wanted to delete something? Huh, man, that would be a lot oh, work. But with the new page navigation option, so much easier. Let me show you what I'm talking about. I'm gonna get rid of all
these buttons on every page. And then I'm gonna head
back to the default page, and I'm gonna go to
insert, look for button, go down to the navigator
and choose page navigator. Boom. Look at that. All those buttons are
auto-magically created for me. Now, there's one that's showing up, it's hidden and then I'll show you how we can get rid of that one easily. But you can see, right? All of them are there, for all my pages. One's not showing and one is showing, that I don't wanna show. So if I wanna get rid of that, we'll head over here to the format option. We'll go to pages and
you'll see where it says "Show hidden page" and
"Show tooltip pages." Tooltip pages is automatically hidden, hidden pages, is not. I'm gonna go ahead and hide that one. A lot of times when we
have this page navigation, we just hide all the pages and the buttons will not allow you to navigate to one. The tooltip pages, I don't know if I would ever use that because I don't want people
to navigate directly to them. They're just used when I do
hovers and things like that. But the hidden option is
definitely something that I would take advantage of going forward when I started creating
all my beautiful reports. Now, if I click California,
it takes me to California. And then same thing, if I click Texas, it'll take me over to Texas and it just works. There's some other options here. If I just go ahead and choose it, go to the format panel, I can change the shape and look at the list of
shapes that I can choose from. There's all types of shapes and one that I like the
best is this Chevron arrow. I really like that one. And I'm going to squish
this down a little bit using Adam's really
technical term, squishing. And then there's a little option that I saw under style to turn on a glow. Oh, look at that. I like it. Now what happens if I want to add a page, I click the plus, boom. If I go back to United States, it actually adds that page, but that's not what I want to do. What I really want to do, get rid of that. I wanna duplicate Texas. I'm going to call it Washington. I'm going to go change my filter because I only want to see
the info for Washington on this guide and not Texas. So now if I go back here, you'll see that it's United
States, California, Texas, and Washington. If I move Texas over here, it'll change it up automatically for you. It just kind of handles
the management of the page navigation, button, groups,
whatever you want to call it. I don't have to do anything. It just works. The last thing I like to
do is I'm going to copy it across all my pages. Once I get it formatted
the way I want it to look, I simply click it, Ctrl + C and then go to all my pages and just go, boom, boom and boom. So now my navigation is ready to go. If I click here and go Texas. If I click here, I can go to
United States, California. And now I don't have to
worry about anything. Adding new pages, deleting
pages, reordering pages, formatting it up, it all
happens as a single unit. All right, what do you guys think? Do you have any questions? Do you have any comments? Have you used the new
page navigation feature? I love to know. Let's continue to conversation, where, in the comments below. If it's your first time
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