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Pre-Filtering Power BI Reports with URL Filters

Ben Richardson takes you to the right place:

Most Power BI users share reports one of two ways: they send the full report URL and ask people to filter it themselves, or they build separate reports for each team and spend the next year maintaining them.

Neither approach is ideal. Which is why URL filters are a great third option!

By appending a short query string to a report URL, you can control exactly what a reader sees the moment they open the link.

All without touching the underlying report, without duplicating it, and without relying on your readers to set up their own filters correctly.

This guide covers how URL filters work, how to write the syntax correctly, and where they will save you time.

Ben does cover the limitations around URL filters as well. This sounds like its best-case scenario is when there is another application that can serve Power BI URLs.

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