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title: Power BI Custom Visuals - Drilldown Player
description: The Drilldown Player Power BI Custom Visual acts like a slicer that animates other visuals around it on your report.
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# [Power BI Custom Visuals - Drilldown Player](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/power-bi-custom-visuals-drilldown-player)

 Written by [Devin Knight](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/author/devin-knight) | Jul 20, 2017

In this module, you will learn how to use the Drilldown Player Custom Visual.  The Drilldown Player acts like a slicer that animates other visuals around it on your report.

### Module 60 – Drilldown Player

### Downloads

- Power BI Custom Visual – [Drilldown Player](https://pragmaticworksonline.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/FileShare/Ejn3BZIKy-NHk0DHsQUqT5QBx8WaO5HCyu0Qo7pWOzaWmw?e=G2cUIB)
- Dataset – [Sales By Product.xlsx](https://pragmaticworksonline.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/FileShare/EpDVkizTyV9Ovu9g9-3hWFkBoKCmfm_P7Zo1ysp0jQB4ow?e=j2siZa)
- Completed Example – [Module 60 – Drilldown Player.pbix](https://pragmaticworksonline.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/FileShare/EpDVkizTyV9Ovu9g9-3hWFkBoKCmfm_P7Zo1ysp0jQB4ow?e=j2siZa)

Key Takeaways

- Acts like a slicer that animates other report visuals.
- Supports three levels of a drilldown hierarchy.

<https://devinknightsql.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/image12.png>

*This Drilldown Player automatically applied cross highlighting to other report visuals based on the product category and subcategory.*

- Under the **Format** paintbrush there are a few sections available to modify the appearance of this visual.
- Under the **Animation Options **section you can set the visual to automatically start playing when opening with the **Auto Play** option. You can also set the visual to continuously loop and control how long it spends on each value.

<https://devinknightsql.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/image13.png>

- The **Control Colors **properties allow you to set specific colors on the Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, and Next buttons.

<https://devinknightsql.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/image14.png>

- Under the **Enable Caption **section you can control the text color and size that appears below the control buttons.

<https://devinknightsql.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/image15.png>

In addition to these properties, there are settings that appear on every visual to adjust the background color, add a border around the visual and lock the aspect ratio.

### Find Out More

You will always be able to find this video module and advanced viewing of future modules on the Pragmatic Works On-Demand Training platform or [view my previous blog posts](https://blog.pragmaticworks.com/topic/power-bi-custom-visuals).

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