Hyperlinks in Power BI

I’m currently tracking a bunch of products in Power BI to see whether tariffs or the Iran war is having an impact on our affordability.

But their update (or Next Release Date) do not happen on the same day.

So, I have what I call an Index page to show me through what date the data runs through, when FRED updated the date, and when is the next release date. For milk, data is up through April 2026 and was updated on 5/12/2026. The next update will be 6/10/2026.

All of these dates are measures: two scraped from the FRED site (UpdatedDate and NextReleaseDate) and the third calculated as a MAX date. I did a post on this a couple of posts ago.

This is a wonderful handy way to see at a bird’s eye view what needs updating.

Hyperlinks

I also included hyperlinks back to the pages showing visualizations for the products. Instead of paging through the tabs, I can just click on the arrow (or rather CTRL click on the arrow) and it will send me to the proper tab.

So, yes, Power BI has hyperlinks.

All I did was ask CoPilot if Power BI offered hyperlinks, much like Excel. I dream up what I want and then ask CoPilot if it is possible.

How to add hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are added as buttons.

• From menu Insert – Buttons

• There is a tiny down arrow beneath the word Buttons. Click on that.

• I chose the right arrow at this point.
• This next piece is not obvious: go to the “Format button” pane and turn on the Action.

• Open up the “Action” and make the “Type” “Page navigation”. In image 5 below, I’m showing you the various options.

• And then finally, select your destination page. (I’m having problems with WordPress – the image is currently coming up oversized!)

And now you should have the hyperlinks set up.