Advanced power bi Filter

[Anonymous]

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

[v-chuncz-msft · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

You may refer to the following post.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Tricky-Slicer-Options/m-p/573381#M270846

[AlB]

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]

hi @AlB

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. 

[mussaenda]

if creating nother table is an option for you,

here's the pbix : slicer test pbix

I have encountered this problem also and this is how i solved it.

Hope this helps you too

[Anonymous]

Hi @mussaenda,

Your solution seems to be doing what I'm after but could you potentially explain the logic and how it works?

Thank you

[mussaenda]

Hi @Anonymous

I don't know how to explain this one. I just got the idea from this thread

as suggested by @Anonymous. Maybe he can explain you better.

Did this suggestion solved your issue?

[Cmcmahan]

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.