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Anonymous
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Disable Drill down/expand option in matrix visual

HI,

 

I am working on a Matrix visual and have fields like Year, Period and week. I want these fields in separate columns rather using in hierarchy.

Please suggest how to do this.

 

Thanks 

 

@ITGeek555 

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Hi @Anonymous ,

If I understand your requirement correctly that you want to show the matrix like this?

Capture.PNG

If you want to disable the Drill down/expand option in matrix visual, you could turn off it in visual header and it will work in power bi service.

diable the drilldown option.PNG

If I misunderstood your requirement, please share your desired output so that we could help further on it.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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dkavinash
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First  go to Format visual->row header->+/- icon and uncheck it.

 

 

 

dkavinash_1-1741711633287.png

After first step finished gotot  Layout and style presets and change layout to Tabular and click on the drill down option on the visual to see the data

 

dkavinash_0-1741711607349.png

 

dkavinash_2-1741711834362.png

 

 

v-piga-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

You could create the calculated column to calculate the Year, Month, Quarter and Week with Dax functions separatly.

Please refer to the functions below.

YEAR(<date>)

MONTH(<datetime>)

WEEKNUM(<date>, <return_type>)

If you still need help, please feel free to ask.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Hi @v-piga-msft /Cherry,

 

Thanks for your comment but i already have those fields (year, period and week) and this is not the issue.

The issue was to use them in a separate columns rather putting them in heirarchy. 

 

I have achieved that by right click on the field and then click on 'Expand to next level' option. You can suggest if there is another way to achieve it.

 

Thanks.

Hi @Anonymous ,

If I understand your requirement correctly that you want to show the matrix like this?

Capture.PNG

If you want to disable the Drill down/expand option in matrix visual, you could turn off it in visual header and it will work in power bi service.

diable the drilldown option.PNG

If I misunderstood your requirement, please share your desired output so that we could help further on it.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Hi, this answer looks to be the previous version of Power BI.  Those options have changed, and the drill-down toggle option doesn't look like it's there anymore.  ould someone, please provide an updated solution?  That would be really helpful!  Thanks!

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