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Filter Table Without Including the Column You are Filtering On

Hi,

I have a fact table:

AccountType

1A
2B
3B
4C
2C
1C
1A
3A
1D
4C

 

With an Account dimension:

AccountName

1W
2X
3Y
4Z

 

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?

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AlexisOlson
Super User
Super User

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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AlexisOlson
Super User
Super User

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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