. When the wizard pops up, make sure you have the color settings as follows: Can you help me with this? It has the same effect. Thanks for your article, its really useful and well thought ! Selecting a slicer value will filter all other visuals in the report. And is there a way to clear out all filters so that if you have multiple drill downs to the same page, it clears out all the filters by default first? Hi Jason, thanks for this tutorial really helpful. As consequence, is always showing data (Check Filtered always == 1). This works well, but can you recommend anything that would allow the user to be able to scroll up/down or drill down on the visualization that is shown after the selection? If you have a visualization that supports drilling, by default, drilling one visualization has no impact on the other visualizations on the report page. I had same problem. Hi Rajib, Hi John, Hope it helps anyone with same issue, the drop down is disabled for some visuals and enabled for others. Best Regards,Community Support Team _ JoeyIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. Hello! Here is my solution: Thank you, good post and demo video, I started out thinking this should be called the dynamic filtering tutorial until youpulled the rabbit out of the hat with overlaying the card and the transparency approach. Power BI Desktop. 1. I dont know of anyway to solve this particular problem. Hi Rich, Are you referring to the new Search Bar in the Ribbon, or the search that can be added to a slicer? In the case of the matrix being used in this example, this results in the matrix being rendered with just 2 rows visible. But our users have IE as the default. Anything I can do as a workaround? I have successfully used this technique on donut charts without issue. The hidden table will be fine, because cross filtering vs highlight filtering makes no difference to a table, but it does impact how columns are displayed, and thus we need the selection visuals to act as slicers and apply a filter across the page. Clicking a value on a scatter plot wont do that. But what you will need to do is have your slicer either with an inactive relationship, or no relationship at all, otherwise the slicer will filter the visual. Hello, Im having an issue with the Check Filtered measure when I add this into Filters on this visual I cant interact with it at all? You would have to manually place them over the customer names however, and that would be an issue if the chart redraws. Check Filtered = ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]) || ISFILTERED(Register[Region]) I like it. level 2 max of two options ( i.e. chart visual I'm working with a dataset containing all the approved travel requests from a certain period of time. i have the same problem where i cannot select the measure? Hope it helps anyone with same issue. The matrix does not show the slicer field. Simple and very helpful walk-through, I was able to follow it step by step and replicate the function. Hi, You can also use that measure within the dynamic title to have it display a message. Ive been trying to find a way to do this as well, the treemap approach is pretty brilliant. If you can edit a report, you can edit, delete, clear, hide, or lock this type of filter. Your guidance is very very helpful!! My question is, can we hide the Card browser visual after its click (like I want to hide the drop down visual after selecting one option from it and just see the table). See my response to Pam regarding the Gauge visual below. 1. Hi there, is there a way to amend the Make Transparent measure so that when a certain value is selected from the slicer the transparent treemap is activated, rather than no value being selected from the slicer. You have combined the [Check Filtered] and [Hide Visual] into one measure. Do you have an updated explanation based on the latest Power BI verion (March 2022). Unfortunately the Map wont disappear with the Check Filtered trick (even if you have a different column slicing on the map, you still have an empty map in view), so the only way to hide the map is to make the card completely cover the map, but if you do that you lose any interactivity with the Map. Transparency and everything works well. For example, I was using it for a detailed grid, I only wanted to show information in this grid for the barcodes selected by the user. I was stuck at the same step and changing the type made it work! )) I have sales 1, sales 2, customer1, customer 2, item1, item 2 , date, sales lines 1, sales line2, sales history table Step-2: Now add one slicer visual into report page and . Write an additional Message measure, that renders a blank card. The value of the measure seems to re-evaluate but the table visualization does not refresh based on the changed measure when a user resets the filter using the eraser. So, now we explore another issue described by a Power BI user. If you publish the report to your My Workspace, you should see the correct behaviour. Thank you. The answer is simple: Power BI is 4 years old, Tableau is 16 years old and Business Objects is 26 years old. I found that it seems to have a drawback, however, in that it cannot be used when you have the column which the slicer uses also in the rows section of the matrix. However, I would have thought that Microsoft would have recognized that a visual (table or matrix)is a complete object in its own right. SELECTEDVALUE will allow you to control one output only, with the other output being the value in case there is a single selection. In the Check Filtered measure, I had to test different columns of the master table ISFILTERED(MasterTable[FindTheRightColumnHere]) and all of a sudden it worked. If your target visual only requires the one value, and you just want to show or hide that, then skip the Check Filtered steps (skip: Write Check Filtered Measure & Filter Matrix to Render Blank), and just place the Message card over the entirety of the visual you are trying to hide. When certain conditions are met, you could display the appropriate instruction by changing the transparency. Dynamic Title to show Prior Month from Selected Value. For example, the following measure calculates the quantity by dividing the existing Sales Amount measure by the Unit Price value of the selected product. When nothing is selected in the slicer the matrix shows all items and the table shows none, as expected. I suspect the issue is that when you are selecting a value in Table A, [Hide Visual] is still returning 0, and hence Table B is remaining Empty. Ive been looking for the solution for quite a while and so glad I have finally found it! Until there, it worked perfectly, but I started experiencing issues with the visual, it wont become transparent when there are two categories (Country & City) in the shared axis field, or only Country in the field for instance. Hide Visual = IF( , 1, 0) Any idea of how to use it for that? Sharing for information & your thoughts; IF( OR( ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]), ISFILTERED(Register[Region])), 1, 0). The trick seems to be working slicers are used but not when a search bar is used. Yes, this would be another approach. Unfortunately it is not possible to use this logic to filter both the slicer and the visual by the same field. Basically, the result of a visual was used as a filter for another visual. But the final result video above is working fine. I want hide a report page. Might help with your problem aswell if you tried to scroll on your visual. When I put the Hide Visual into the Filters on this visual, the only option that it will give me is less than and I cant enter any values. The visual is a line and clustered column chart with 2 categories (Country & City) in the shared axis (theyre linked by a drilldown, Country > City ), So i created these 2 measures : When the wizard pops up, make sure you have the color settings as follows: You still need the [Check Filtered] measure to return a True/False response in order to work as expected. 2. Part Type & Part Number https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b05ea746-910f-ec11-b76a-281878e6855d, response to Pam regarding the Gauge visual below, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/plotting-2-fields-on-the-legend-of-a-chart/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/items-not-selected-slicer/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/expression-based-formatting-in-dax/, https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzg2YWJlNTAtMDI0MC00OTVlLWE5YmEtMmJjMTY5YjIxNTU3IiwidCI6ImZmMTA1ZDRmLTAzOWYtNDQ0Zi1iZDZmLTBlZDFlMzVkYWVmNCIsImMiOjh9, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y3kDvtsWiI9uDiBOUbutEEdXkBi9PUsX, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/conditional-formatting-with-a-text-field-in-power-bi/. My trick: I just added ANY normal table field to the visual and then hided it, in my case it was a grid so I just hided it by reducing the with of the column to zero I am using direct query with Tabular for our Power BI reports and Microsoft does not allow you to add additional columns to the Power BI model (you can only add Measures). When I select Belgium in the MAP, I want to see everything of RequestID=2 in the TABLE. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Hi Matt, Great Article, just one question does it work with live connection? Can you tell me what you mean by The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual. However, I noticed in the Filters section for the card the Hide Visual is (All). The largest, in-person gathering of Microsoft engineers and community in the world is happening April 30-May 5. Here is the link to the dashboard I created using thes tips: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzg2YWJlNTAtMDI0MC00OTVlLWE5YmEtMmJjMTY5YjIxNTU3IiwidCI6ImZmMTA1ZDRmLTAzOWYtNDQ0Zi1iZDZmLTBlZDFlMzVkYWVmNCIsImMiOjh9. The SELECTEDVALUE function simplifies the syntax required when you use a numeric column of an entity as a parameter in a calculation. I think this is essentially the same as what Sarah asked in the previous comment. The table does, but it still works. I like this trick, but ran into a quick issue when trying to incorporate my tooltips. Not ideal. But the problem is when I bookmark button4table , I dont know the above visual is in which state and that state should not change. Ok, so the obvious question is, what version are you using? Once you have set the Format By bucket to Format by : Field Value, then you should be able to select the Make Transparent measure. I want users to be forced to use the correct slicer depending on their Year Type selection. I hope they implement it soon. The process is the same in the Power BI service Editing view. Sadly, no. It just stays as is less than and doesnt allow me to change it. Hi Raju, I was stuck in the same issue. Power BI does not allow me to set the background conditional formatting (Field Value) to to Make Transparent. Make transparent onto card background, conditional formatting, field value Keep in mind Qlik is 27 years old and Power BI is 6 years old. You have to explicitly set the Make Transparent measure Data type: Text. I have one challenge in our BI reporting. I have no idea why it returns (All). 2nd challenge: sales history having the data until may 2019 remaining facts have data from June 2019. I guess yo could add 7 text boxes manually, and conditionally for at each of them to have the text transparent or black. Then when you select a value in your slicer, the Message card and the Message Blank cards will become transparent, so your Bar Chart will appear to have materialised based on the selection, and your bars will remain fully interactive, allowing you to mouse over for tool-tips, or click a bar for cross-filtering. In deed that was the issue. 1.Bar chart 2.Line Chart 3.Tree Map, Requirement is: Hi, I created all the measures as per the instructions here. Hi Jason, Thanks for the tutorial, it was really helpful! The || is a logical OR, but gives you the flexibility to move beyond a binary condition. If you have edit permissions for a report, you can use Visual interactions to change how visualizations on a report page impact each other. IF ( HASONEVALUE( Table'[ColumnName] ), VALUES( Table'[ColumnName] ), [AlternateResult] ) Does this solution still work in the most recent release? See my response to that. Hi Veronica, Where ever you can see the Fx button next to an item in the format pane, there you can use expression based formatting. Then provides the table name & click on Load button. Retrieve the selected date from the Date We use as a reference date the last date visible in the Date table, and we show the previous six months; Create a filter with the previous six months and apply it to the Previous Date table; Activate the relationship between Previous Date and Date, so that the newly computed filter operates on Date. When trying to select the measure as field value > 1. My measures [Check Filtered], [Message] and [Hide Visual] are all calculating correctly when filtering on my desired category; however I seem to be unable to use [Hide Visual]=1 in Filter this visual by in my card containing the [Message]. LOOKUPVALUE(Security[User],Security[See Chart],TRUE()) Hi Matt, This is great! I have found that sometimes, switching your X & Y axis is enough. Click on Conditional formatting, Select Format by as field value and then select the measure. I cant select any measure there Select the masking Card made earlier. Turn on the drill-down feature by selecting the drill-down icon. As described in the article about conditional based text colours linked above, you can set the result of a measure as being any HEX colour you want using conditional colour formatting. Before we can proceed with building our background switching card we need some measures. Then, I created a many-to-many relationship like this: Now I created a MAP visual based on Table_Orig and a TABLE visual based on Table_Copy. Hey MattI just spent ages trying to replicate your trick to no avail, until I finally realised that I was trying to trigger it from a Table (not a Slicer) and the default behaviour was to crossfilter the Treemap rather than filter it. Your insight of using Treemap as a controllable color shape was brilliant and an eye opener for me. and done in 10 minutes thanks to you. Jason I love this solution and have used it successfully. 2. The challenge of selectively showing report elements has plagued Power BI report developers for many years now, but there is no out of the box solution for this problem at this point in time. Test Concat String = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Products[Category]),Products[Category], ) My case however requires the transparency switch to be triggered when a single value is selected. If there are multiple places on a visual you want to cover with the card, you might be better off creating another card that just renders white or transparent based on the show hide. AFAIK, the Z-order for visuals doesnt change at run-time. You never showed it in your video, but I assume having multiple categories selected would also trigger the transparency? but by using these measures it doesnt move the mask card when i choose the select all option. thank you for your hints. The desired outcome is to show the matrix when the user has selected an item in the Product[Category] slicer and hide the matrix otherwise. It is only necessary if you desire to have a visual that can be clicked after the initial selection has been made. This is very ingenious. Thanks again!! It is not easy, but it can be done as long as you make the selection for the hidden visual to be larger than the one that hides it. Any idea on how to implement this to hide a single-select slicer? I used that technique, and it is working, but I cannot interact with those visuals where a card is implemented on top. This is achieved simply by holding CTRL down when you click between the charts. Excellent!! . If Check filtered == 0 the matrix is showing data. For customer presentations? -chart visual- The solution only works when the trigger column does not form part of hidden visual in any way. This interactivity can be controlled easily. So I hope and expect that at some stage we will be able to use a measure to make any visual visible or not. I used the isFiltered on product name however i think the hide visual is not only hiding the message but everything in Table B. I would like it where i can select any data from the columns in table A and the data shows up in table B. I mean in my case it may happen some time data will come some time it will not. do we have any alternative option for this or I am missing something. Those elipses are on July 2019 desktop version. The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual for this technique to work. To get this to work youll need two measures: Check Filtered = OR( ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]), ISFILTERED(Register[Region])) 3. @JarroVGIT, you're a life saver! @Matt Allington, can you please guide me on how to use this technique on donut charts and bar chart? 0) Now, I am facing issues to completely hide other slicers (Year/Month) based on primary slicer (Interval slicer with value Daily, Monthly, Yearly) selection. Heres hoping, anyway. ). Here I have an example where [Check Filtered] is leveraging SELECTEDVALUE. In Power BI Desktop, select Format > Edit interactions. nvm i found out. ). Step-1: Create a static table with measure name. And I want that zoom in/out control in Map. You can edit, delete, or clear this transient type of drillthrough filter. You can't use a measure directly in a slicer, so here's a way to get a similar exper. Hi, in my case I wanted to hide a table. I am trying to come up with a solution to hide a column from a group of users, I have set up OLS in tabular editor and it works it breaks the visual. Hi Matt, is it possible to made same hiding technique to the below scenario Solution Overview. Make sure your card is only covering the top of your hidden visual. thank you so much for such a simple yet effective method of achieving something you would hope is an option. Thanks to your article. Checked Total Sales = IF([Check Filtered], [Total Sales]) Hi Pim, Thanks for the tip. Hi Jueliette, Write a measure to check if there is a filter on the desired column (type Boolean) Write a measure to display a user message on the card based on the user selection . Thank you Jason for responding. When I get to the conditional formatting of the card, the the measures I wrote are greyed out and not available for selection under What field should we base this on?. Hi Abi, With Bookmarks you can control the visibility of individual visuals based on the click of a button. Report filter applies to all pages in the report. if you have got the results. Hope this helps. Thank you for the prompt reply. Select the visual to be hidden, open the Filters pane and place the [Hide Visual] measure onto the Filters on this visual, and set the Show items when the value: is 1. I am not quite sure what you are asking. You will need to set your Table up like the Matrix described in the article, with the CheckFiltered measure attached as a filter on this visual, and the Message measure to the card. It works nearly perfect to me. Thank you in Advance. The color formatting is not working as mentioned in my powerbi..i am unable to add measure in the formattingcan anyone help me, Hi Akhil, [Selected Calendar] = Financial Year, 1, Read the section Filter the Visual to Render Blank. One issue with testing the result of concatenatex over the values function as in your example is that If there are other filters that could be applied, you cant be sure which item will appear first in the array returned by values. The only problem, though, is related to our local report server, which is compatible only with updates until September 19 and doesn't have many-to-many relationships available, so now I'm trying to adapt the fully working PBI to the earlier version to be able to publish for others to see the dashboard, but this is an issue for another thread. One issue I am facing while doing this when I drag and drop the measure to the filter pane, the drop down is not working. Do you have any idea how to fix this? But the picture could not be over the table, as you cant show and hide the picture itself (currently). But I have an issue to select or show labels of the graphs that were hidden. Could you please let me know how to use with Matrix row selection (SelectedValue) instead of a Slicer? It is odd. category AND/OR subcategory AND/OR colour AND/OR shape. What this will show is the selected PO with all line items in that PO. You can format that page as you like, the filters will be passed to the new page, and hence the concept of testing for the existence of a filter should still work. The final requirement is to apply the [Make Transparent] measure to format the background colour of the masking Card. The CheckFiltered measure goes onto the chart/matrix you wish to hide. APPLIES TO: Power BI service for business users Power BI service for designers & developers Power BI Desktop Requires Pro or Premium license One of the great features of Power BI is the way all visuals on a report page are interconnected. This only returns True if a selection is made on Bikes, and therefore the hidden visual will now only appear if Bikes is specifically selected in another visual. Is this possible using Power BI ? First determine if the button is visible. Hi Jason, great content. In the Action settings, I chose Type = Page Navigation, and then selected the fx next to the Destination bucket. The best I can come up with is covering options with bookmarks (no drop-downs obviously) and bookmarking the selection.
