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Anonymous
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Filtering using separate visualisations

This may be a simple one but I've not been able to do it.

 

I'm using the data matrix preview on a set of data in exchange of a data slicer (it's much more useful for this particular purpose and allows me to display separate values in addition to the filter category).

 

This filters a set of other visuals and graphs on the page. Great so far. However, when I want to further filter by clicking on one of the graphs, the original filter (on the data matrix) resets. This wouldn't happen on a data slicer.

 

Is there a way to retain my original filter when I click on other visuals? I've tried using ctrl but while this works on a single visual it doesn't seem to work here.

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

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v-ljerr-msft
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

Currently, it is not possible to do multiple cross-filters in multiple visuals to further narrow down the filtering(as Slicers). Here is a similar idea shared on Power BI Ideas. You can vote it up and add your comments there to improve Power BI on this feature. Smiley Happy

 

Regards

Greg_Deckler
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Community Champion

You could try using the visual interactions editing to not have those other visualizations affect your data matrix visual. Nope, nevermind, doesn't work, just tried it. Weird.



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