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Power BI has no real pagination. A bar chart or table with 50 categories either scrolls awkwardly, or you show a Top N and lose everything below it. The proper fix — rank the items, show N per page, and give readers page buttons — is a fiddly build: a disconnected table for the page numbers, the ranking and windowing measures, a visual-level filter, a button slicer, and (when bookmarks show and hide the visual) the grouping that keeps the slicer in sync. This skill builds the whole thing from one command — on a single visual or several at once, each with its own independent paging — run it with /paginate-visual.

How it works

Type /paginate-visual, point it at your visual(s), answer a few questions, and the skill builds everything:

Reads your visual — finds the dimension to rank, the ranking measure, the measure table, and whether the visual sits in a bookmark group
Asks the setup — items per page, a max-page ceiling (suggested from your data when a VPAX is present), rank direction, how to handle ties, any values to exclude, and a short prefix for naming
Builds the page table — a small disconnected table of page numbers that drives the button slicer
Writes the ranking — measures that rank the items, keep only the current page's slice, and hide page buttons that would be empty (all in a PagesLogic folder)
Filters the visual — a visual-level filter so only the current page's N items show
Drops in the buttons — a compact horizontal page-number slicer, default page 1, sized to your theme
Follows bookmarks — if the visual shows and hides with a bookmark, the slicer is grouped and wired to it; if the visual is already inside one of your own layout groups, the slicer joins that group instead of disturbing it
Keeps visuals independent — point it at several and each gets its own page table and buttons, so paging one never moves another

What you get

A page-number slicer — a compact horizontal row of page buttons, default page 1, sized to your theme
Paged visual — a visual-level filter so each page shows exactly its N ranked items, and empty page buttons disappear automatically
The DAX behind it — a page-number value measure plus item-rank, item-filter, and page-filter measures, tucked in a PagesLogic folder
A page table — a small disconnected table of page numbers (prefixed when several paginated visuals share a page)
Bookmark grouping — set up for you when bookmarks show and hide the visual, and respected when the visual is already in one of your own groups

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