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Unique Ask For Drill-Through: Can it be turned off?

While holding a training on Power BI a few weeks ago, I was explaining the differences between a drill through page and drill-down capabilities on a visual.  Both are great tools to take advantage of when building your reports.  Drill down is wonderful when you want your end-user to see the details of your data on a smaller scale.  Think of seeing your data on the country level, then the state level, then the city level, zip code, okay you get the point :)  Now, a drill-through page on the other hand will take you to a brand new page where any visual you place on that page will be filtered based on a specific field from a visual on your current page. So what unique question/request did I get....? While explaining how a drill-through works, I was asked, "can a drill-through be turned off?"  For clarification, I explained "Do you mean if a drill-through was set up by the "state" field and you had multiple visuals with the "state" field could you turn t...