Duplicate Text in Multiple Text Filters

[andrewa521]

Hey all,

I have an aytpical problem where I am afraid there is not a good solution to, but I figured I would ask.  Basically I have to Text Filters on the same page, and would like whatever the typed text is to be duplicated between the two text filters.

I would try to simply combine the tables, or create some relationship, but there is not a 1 to 1, or many to 1 match despite the fact that the same text automatically appearing in a second text filter would get the result I am looking for.    Any other creative solutions are also welcome!

Here is a simple screeenshot, to help you understand:  Basically after I typed ABC in text slicer 1, I would like that to automatically be the value in text slicer 2, so the user doesnt have to search the same thing twice. 

Thanks for reading my post,

Andrew

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @andrewa521 ,

If you can accept the existence of only one slicer, and then filter one slicer to filter the two results, you can refer to the following method:

Sample data

Table 1:

Table 2:

Following your explanation, you want text filter 1 to put the ID column of Table 1 and text filter 2 to put the ID column of Table 2. Then Text Filter 1 can sync the entered text to Text Filter 2 after entering the text.

You can create a third table with distinct IDs to solve it.

Third table created using DAX:

Table =
DISTINCT ( UNION ( DISTINCT ( 'Table 1'[ID] ), DISTINCT ( 'Table 2'[ID] ) ) )

Create the relationships.

Now you can see the result. The field in the text filter visual is from the third table.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[andrewa521]

Thanks so much, that worked!