Quick summary
Adding buttons in Power BI lets report builders create interactive navigation and action triggers directly inside their dashboards. This step-by-step walkthrough covers inserting a button, customizing its appearance, and assigning an action to make it fully functional.
Steps
- Navigate to the report that you want to use a button.
- Go to the Insert tab and select Buttons.
- Open the Format button pane on the right side of the screen.
- Under the Button options, customize the style, color, size, and transparency.
- Select an icon type, color, and placement for the button icon.
- Go to the Action tab in the Format button pane.
- Turn on the Action toggle to enable interactivity.
- Choose the desired action from the available options to assign button behavior.
- Your report now has an interactive button that functions as a clickable element in Power BI.
