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fchukoskie
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10 years ago
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Drill down and filter

In a Power BI desktop stacked bar chart, I'd like to drill-down by clicking to see which 2nd-level items (Subjects) make up the 94 replies in a survey. However, that double-click renders the entire c...
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    10 years ago

    If that is how it is working for you, it sounds like it is broken or a bug. Drilling down should actually be a drill down. I'll have to see if I can replicate your issue, I do not usually use stacked charts. I have had success with non-stacked charts having drilldown work properly. Are you on the latest release (January) of Desktop?

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fchukoskie
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10 years ago

Yes on the release question. Version: 2.31.4280.361 64-bit (January, 2016)

 

Thanks for fact-checking me. I'm new enough to the tool that I don't yet have a sense for what's a bug and what's self-inflicted.

-Frank

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10 years ago

Drill down only works on the axis labels. So when you click on the bar that you're hovering over in the screenshot, you should expect to see all [Subject]s that are associated with a [Rating] = 1.

 

I think you're expecting to see either all [Rating] = 1 for [Answer] = "It's not helping me", or to see all [Subject]s with [Answer] = "It's not helping me". Is one of these the expectation?

  • fchukoskie's avatar
    fchukoskie
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    10 years ago

    I'd expect to see the breakdown by Subject where Rating = 1 and Answer = 'It's not helping me'.

    • greggyb's avatar
      greggyb
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      10 years ago

      That's currently not supported behavior. You'd have to take two steps:

      1. Drill down on [Rating] = 1
      2. Apply filter to [Answer] = "It's not helping me"

      I know of no way to combine those into a single step in Power BI.