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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Advanced power bi Filter

Hello, Suppose i have the following dataset:

ID, colour
1, Amber
2, Red
3, Amber
4, Red

 

If i create a slicer using the colour, it could return 2 options: Red and amber.

 

I would like the slicer to show the following 2 options: slice1 and slice 2 where

 

slice1 shows all All red or amber rows

slice2 shows all All red rows

 

The problem that's proving difficult is the overlap between the selection. I have thought it about leaving the select all option on but the labelling will not be clear as i believe select all can not be renamed.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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  • AlB's avatar
    AlB
    Community Champion
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    One quick solution would be:

    1. Add  calculated column to the table:

     

     

    NewColumn =
IF (
    Table1[colour] IN { "Red", "Amber" },
    "Slice 1",
    IF ( Table1[colour] = "Red", "Slice 2" )
)

    2.  Use NewColumn for the slicer

     

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      hi @

       

      Thank you for your answer. Unfortuantely its not exactly what I am looking for. The if statement will evaluate the colours column and there are only 2 possible colours which are amber and red. As the first if statement checks for red and amber colours, it will always return true. The second if statement will never get a chance to execute as a result of that.  

       

      When i drag the new column to the slicer, it will only show slice 1 in selection box. 

      • Cmcmahan's avatar
        Cmcmahan
        Resident Rockstar
        7 years ago

        One thing I did was to add "Color is Red"  as a visual level filter on the slicer.  Then it only shows the option to filter Red items, but clicking off of it goes back to all items. You may also want to use a custom visual like the Chiclet Slicer.  

         

        I'm curious, why would "Select All" be too confusing for your use case?  It seems pretty straightforward to me. It could even be combined with the visual level filter from above so that the slicer only shows "Select All" and "Red", but works as you describe.