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Get selected item after filtering using context menu

lucmax — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:56:45 GMT

Hi,

is there a way to get information about the selection that gets created when including/excluding a datapoint using a context menu?

We have a custom visual and need to know, if the user included/excluded a datapoint using the context menu so we can show a button to reset this selection.

Using the selectionManager.clear() method isn't working.

Best regards

Re: Get selected item after filtering using context menu

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:02:15 GMT

Hi @lucmax,

I think you can check the following link about the data point selections on custom visual if it meets to your requirement:

Power BI visual data point selections - Power BI | Microsoft Docs
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Re: Get selected item after filtering using context menu

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:28:10 GMT

Hi @lucmax,

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Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Re: Get selected item after filtering using context menu

lucmax — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:48:58 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

unfoutunatly it did not help. What we actually need to is either get the selected item when clicking on the filter buttons within the context menu, or to disable/hide the buttons when creating it. Maybe there is a way to disable/hide the buttons within the context menu?

Regards,

lucmax

Re: Get selected item after filtering using context menu

dm-p — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:29:56 GMT

Hi @lucmax,

The context menu is governed by the main window and the visual only has the option to display it (with the option of passing a selection ID in order to trigger enable data point functionality for end users). There is currently no support for obtaining information or events (e.g. through callbacks) from this menu.

As you've probably observed, including/excluding data points will cause Power BI to employ a visual-level filter for those conditions. As this shown in the filter pane and is external to the visual's dataset there is no current way of telling that these filters are in-place from within a visual; an exception being if your visual is designed to work as a slicer (but then only knows about the filters it has explicitly set rather than those imposed by the main window or other slicers).

If you want to be able to determine this, then it would need to be a feature request. It could be worth framing this is to obtain details of any visual level filters that are applied to the visual as this might cover additional cases other than the context menu events. This might be seen as giving the visual more data than it should technically know about, but that's a call for MS. I would personally love to see some kind of feature parity with Power BI Embedded here, as it can create all kinds of potentially useful additions for visuals.

Regards,

Daniel