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mmace1
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Do you (by default) use Slicers, or the Filter Pane for user-driven filtering?

Just curious what everyone else does / your thinking. 

 

For standard user-defined filtering, there are 3 options

 

Curious what you use and how it works for you / your thoughts on what is by default 'best'? 

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jeroendekk
Responsive Resident
Responsive Resident

@mmace1 
The filter pane is in experience the worst option for users. It to complicated for most my users and not very user friendly. I only use it for report design filter and usually hide it from the users.

So my solution are usually a "Slicer Panel" (I'm not sure why it would trouble) or just a regular slicer if there is only 1 or 2 needed.

Best regards,
Jeroen

mmace1
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Thanks.  I think a slicer panel is easy if the report is simple. But once the report starts using bookmarks for other purposes / it gets a bit painful to maintain imo. 

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