Filter another visual by different field

[Gregg]

I want the visuals to interact in such a way that only some of the filters in the selected visual apply to the other visual, while other filters do not.

Here's an example. The data is shown here (Date, Name, Amount). The Bar chart represents Name and Amount, and is filtered by date (2016-03-03). Assume there are hundreds of names.

The bar chart shows that H is has the larest value for 2016-03-03. So I want to select H to see only H's time series in the line chart and table. However both those visuals are filtered by 2016-03-03 and H, instead of just H. This behavior is expected in some scenarios, but how do I change hat behavior to show H for all dates?

When I select H, the bar chart and table should filter like this:

Is this possible natively? Otherwise I'm wondering if there is a way to create a DAX measure which will somehow "force" the line chart\table to unfilter by date. I tried doing this but had no success.

Thanks.

[WLogan]

I had this issue as well. 

I had the date filter (current report) on the bar chart itself. So when I filtered the line graph it would also filter for the current report instead of being all report date datapoints. 

The way I fixed this was to have a slicer that selected the current report for the bar chart. And then turned off the slicer for the line graph. Then when you selected the category name the line graph works. 

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@Gregg Based on your description I think controlling the interaction of the visuals will solve the issue.

Check out this link

[Gregg]

Thanks @Seth_C_Bauer 

While that link is useful, it does not quite address what I need. The options there are either

1. Filter (assuming by all filters aplied to the selected bar chart), or
2. Do not filter

What I need is filter by only one of the filters applied to the bar chart.

The Highlight option is not available on the Line chart (in this case... I'm not sure why) - see screenshot. Highlight would not be ideal anyway, because the time lines might to be scaled differently.

[Sean]

@Gregg Create a new measure like in the picture and get rid of the Visual Level Filter

(I've created a custom column Year-Mo = FORMAT(Table1[Date], "YYYY-MM") which I use to filter only March)

You can then even add to the bar chart your SUM of Amount so you have a TOTAL bar and March only bar as in 2nd picture

EDIT: You can of course improve the filter part of the Measure based on another custom column 

something like => FILTER(Table1, Table1[Custom Column]="Current Month")  or "Previous Month" etc...

[Gregg · Accepted solution]

That worked @Sean. I made a few modifications so that the filter is more dynamic, and can work for any date (not just months). Here are the steps I took.

1. Create a measure "Selected Date" which is the date selected.

- Here we use MAX(Date), given that if one date is selected MAX(Date) will equal the date selected

Selected Date = MAX(Data[Date])

2. Create a measure "Filtered Amount"

- This is the amount, filtered by the "Selected Date". Use this Filtered amount on the bar chart, instead of placing a filter on the visualization

Filtered Amount = CALCULATE(SUM(Data[Amount]), FILTER(Data, Data[Date] = [Selected Date]))

3. Add a date slicer to the chart so we can select the date that drives the bar chart.

- Edit interactions so that the Line Chart and Table are not filtered by the date selected on the Date Slicer.

4. Now when you select a date on the Date Slicer, the bar chart should filter by date, since it's using "Filtered Amount".

The Line chart and table should not filter since interactions are off for those two, and the chart\table reference [Amount]  and [Date] (not [Filtered amount] and [Selected Date])

When a bar is selected (eg "H" bar), the Line chart & Table will filter by Name = "H" only, and not by Name and Date.

Thanks for your help.

[konstantinos]

@Gregg  This is normal because when you select the bar of H it has 2 filters ( Date - on visual level & H as name ). 

You can replace the measure on the line chart so it doesn't filter by dates.

Btw it is better to have always a Date table as dimention.

Timeline =
CALCULATE ( SUM ( Table1[Amount] ); ALL ( Table1[Date] ) )

[Gregg]

@konstantinos I replaced Amount on the Line chart with the TimeLine measure. This has not changed the behavior - it is still filtering by Date (and Name), as in my second screenshot. I tried adding a date table, and adding a relationship to my fact table, then using then applying all to dimDAtes[Date]. That does not work either.

TimeLine = CALCULATE(SUM(Data[Amount]), ALL(dimDates[Date]))

Am I missing a step?

I realize the current behavior is normal, but it would be good to override this behavior, in this particular case. 

Thanks for your help.

[konstantinos]

This is strange..At least for the demo fata and schema works in my end.
Unless you have a different schema with Other dimension tables which might affect - or/ and bi directional relationships which affects crossfiltering.
Do you have the filter on date in Page or Report filter?