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Filter Table Without Including the Column You are Filtering On
Hi,
I have a fact table:
AccountType
| 1 | A |
| 2 | B |
| 3 | B |
| 4 | C |
| 2 | C |
| 1 | C |
| 1 | A |
| 3 | A |
| 1 | D |
| 4 | C |
With an Account dimension:
AccountName
| 1 | W |
| 2 | X |
| 3 | Y |
| 4 | Z |
So there is 4 Accounts (W, X, Y and Z) and the fact table has 4 Types (A, B, C and D).
I want to create a table showing the Account names that filters with a slicer for Type. The problem is that I don't want Type to be one of the columns displayed in the table. But if I don't include it in the table, the slicer won't apply and the table will just show a list of all accounts.
Does anyone know a way around this?
It sounds like you want bi-directional filtering on the relationship between the tables (I'm assuming you have a one-to-many relationship from Dimension[Account] 1 -->-- * Fact[Account] ).
Bi-directional relationships can cause relationship ambiguities though so it may be better to do the cross-filtering within whatever measures you are using.
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It sounds like you want bi-directional filtering on the relationship between the tables (I'm assuming you have a one-to-many relationship from Dimension[Account] 1 -->-- * Fact[Account] ).
Bi-directional relationships can cause relationship ambiguities though so it may be better to do the cross-filtering within whatever measures you are using.