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mjmar025
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Aid User In Drill Down

I am wondering if there is a way in Power BI to help the user maintain a sense of context while they are drilling down on a bar chart.

 

My specific bar chart has an axis with three levels - fiscal quarter, product type and product family. When I drill down into the product type breakdown for a specific fiscal quarter, there is no graphical indication of which specific quarter I am looking at the product type breakdown for.

 

Does anybody know of a way to make this series of clicks less confusing for the end user?

 

Thank you.

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Greg_Deckler
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Use the "branching" drilldown (furthest right) instead of the double arrows drilldown?



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v-yulgu-msft
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Hi @mjmar025,

 

Have you worked out your requirement? If so, would you please kindly mark the corresponding reply as an answer or share your resolution so that it can benefit more users. If you still have any question, please feel free to ask.

 

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Yuliana Gu

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v-yulgu-msft
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Hi @mjmar025,

 

Please refer to below two images.

 

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Best regards,
Yuliana Gu

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Greg_Deckler
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Use the "branching" drilldown (furthest right) instead of the double arrows drilldown?



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