Advanced filtering with User-Input

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

for an user requirment I need to filter a custom visual (Acterys Matrix). The filter has to check if:

• Field status is not "ACT" and a Date selected by a User is larger or equal than the field ReportDate
• or the status is not "FCT" and a Date selected by a user is smaller then the field ReportDate

In SQL the Query would transfer to: 

WHERE (ReportDate >= '2021-04-30' AND status <> 'ACT') or (ReportDate < '2021-04-30' AND status <> 'FCT')

In the Filter Pane it seems like I can not add different fields to the same filter - And it would be convienent that the date could be selected from a drop down list. 

As the Visual provides Write-Back functionality I have to work with the original query table- meaning I can only filter the data here and not with an "output"-table that is filtered by a look-up table... 

What I tried so far was passing Parameters to the query which works fine . However, the End-User uses PowerBI web-service and I haven't found how a web-user can change/manage the parameters in the web version.

Any help apppreciated!

Max

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I found a solution to my problem. 

• Create Table/Query from what users can select the date - do not build a relationship to the measure table or other dimension tables - date /filter field needs to be the same data type /format like in measurement table!
• Put filter selection field into a slicer visual
• In the fact table create a selectDate measurement using "selectDate = SELECTEDVALUE(filterDates[filterNum])
• Create another measurement that references the measurement "selectDate"

AmountSelect = 
if(
   OR(
      OR(
         OR(
            AND(
               SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenDimension'), "ACT", [Name])= "ACT", 
               SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenZeitDimension'), "yearmon", [yearmon]) <= [selectDate]), 
           AND(
              SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenDimension'), "FCT", [Name])= "FCT", 
              SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenZeitDimension'), "yearmon", [yearmon]) > [selectDate])),
         
        SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenDimension'), "ACT", [Name]) = "SomeOtherCondtion"),
        SELECTCOLUMNS(RELATEDTABLE('OLAP KennzahlenDimension'), "ACT", [Name])= "SomeOtherCondition2"),

 SUM('OLAP CUBE'[Amount])
)

[v-easonf-msft]

Hi, @Anonymous 

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