Fabric Quick Tips: Hiding Power BI Report Page Navigation in Workspace Apps and Organizational Apps

Do you want to share Power BI Reports with End Users through an app, but hide the Page Navigation of the report?

This is especially useful if you have built-in navigation using Buttons, Sidebars or other menus in your report.

Luckily, there is a quick solution. Well, two solutions actually, depending on whether you are using Workspace Apps, or the new Organizational App item in Fabric.

Workspace Apps

In Workspace Apps, any report that you include by normal means will have its Page Navigation visible to users:

However, there is a workaround. If you instead of adding the Power BI report as normal content, choose to add a link:

And in the Link textbox add the Embed URL of your Report, with the following suffix added at the very end “&navContentPaneEnabled=false” (remove the “”).

Then you get an embedded report (security still enabled), without the page navigation:

Bonus Tip: This method of adding reports even works cross-workspace!

Organizational Apps

In organizational Apps, it is much easier.

Here you just toggle off the option “Show Report Pages Pane” in the Customize options:

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