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Create an advanced filter with more than 2 options
Anonymous -
Oh that is interesting...
For me if I went directly to Advanced filtering I was only shown two criteria like what your're experiencing. However, if you start with Basic filtering and then select the values for your criteria and then select Advanced filtering those criteria show.
I didn't expect that. I figured you would have to write the logic in your DAX.
Resident RockstarAnonymous -
Oh that is interesting...
For me if I went directly to Advanced filtering I was only shown two criteria like what your're experiencing. However, if you start with Basic filtering and then select the values for your criteria and then select Advanced filtering those criteria show.
I didn't expect that. I figured you would have to write the logic in your DAX.
Hi everyone,
this thread was created in 2019, and here we are 4 years later in 2023 with the same situation.
The solution of ChrisMendoza is obviously helpful, but to me, it just feels like a workaround. I expect better from a big company like Microsoft. It can't be that difficult to add a "+" (plus) button or something similar to add more options when using the Advanced filtering options, can it?!
- jdbuchanan71
Super User
Anonymous
You can vote for the feature in the ideas area here.
https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=866ea64e-d078-47d0-8221-3db1a8209fbe
Hi jdbuchanan71 , Thanks, just did.
- jonespossibly
Advocate I
This is insane.
Why the hell would this not work in the way everyone in the known universe (except for the power BI UX designers) expects it to work?
What if i want to filter a table on a value that might not exist on the table currently, but could if the criteria was right? It won't exist in the basic filter list. But if the UI was written in some even mildly sensible way, I could enter it into the advanced filtering to filter it if and when it does occur.
its sh*t like this that makes me look more longingly towards other BI products on an almost daily basis recently
I just want an easy and out of the box way to do simple OR filtering. Created On > 01/01/2024 OR Status = Complete. I can't find any way to do this without code or a long-winded data manipulation. 😞
Hello ChrisMendoza ,
you are right! :D
This is almost funny, because imagine you have a long list with
AAAsometext1
AAAsometext2
AAAsometext3
...
AAAsometextn
You can select 4 choices as is AAAsometextX, and then, in the advanced filtering, change to contain and change the strings for AAA, BBB, CCC and DDD :D:D
Regards
- jdbuchanan71
I just stumbled across this behaviour and was going to post it but your reply covers it very well already.
- ChrisMendoza
jdbuchanan71 - Guess it still 'works as intended' 🤷♂️
This does not seem to work in the latest version any other options ?
mraka9Helper III
Hello, is there a possibility to add more options, but not in this way? When it's done like this, all fields must be filled out before applying the advanced filter. This can be avoided by entering the same criteria in multiple options, but they cannot be left blank. Thank you in advance
callenbkdHelper II
This was a great post by you and enabled me to solve an issue similar to what the original poster had.
