The drillthrough feature is a great addition to this tool, however I don't think it measures up to other reporting tools drillthrough capabilities and I am not sure if this would be considered a bug, or the intended functionality.
Specifically, the drillthough functionality does not take into account other filters that have been applied to the page even if the field is in the drillthrough filters pane.
My example is:
Report Page: I have a matrix on a page that is summarizing volume of work by 15 minute interval, geographic sector, and work task type. I have a date filter on this page, but that date column is not in my matrix.
Drillthrough Page: My drillthough page contains a table visual that lists the details that makes up the summarized volume of work. The drillthrough filters are on 15 minute interval, sector, work task, and date. This is a very simple summary to detail drillthrough reporting requirement.
Results: When I click on a cell in my Matix to drillthough I see the drillthrough report page filtered on 15 minute interval, geographic sector, and work task type. The results show all the records that meet these three criteria regardless of date.
Expected Results: The drillthough would recognize the date filter from the first page that is used to filter the results of the matrix and pass that through to the drillthrough report along with the other criteria.
Workaround: To achieve the expect results, which again is very basic drillthrough functionality for any other reporting software, I have to include the date on my matrix. So this means you can only expect the drillthrough functionality to work if those fields are actually on the specific visual you are drilling from.
Is this how you intend the solution to work? I think it will create a lot of confusion on what your drillthrough page is actually displaying. My experience in the reporting world is when you click to drillthrough from one page to another, you would bring through existing filters.
If this is the intended functionality and not a bug, and will not be corrected quickly, then we will need the ability to turn off drillthrough from specific visuals as they will return results that will not make sense to report consumers.
For example a pie chart Let's say I have filtered my data and have a pie chart with the results. If I drillthrough from that pie chart, none of the other filters on the page will be applied because they are not in the visual. My report consumers are going to have no idea what the have drilled to since the results will be totally different than what is in that original pie chart.
Please advise on this issue.
