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rodrigj
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6 years ago

GUI Interaction - Allowing Users to Upload a Criteria Set to Query

Does Power BI allow designers the ability to program widgets to allow users to upload a file of criteria?  For example, I want to allow the user to upload an excel file with a set of criteria about an employee and Power BI return the eligible employees in a drop down menu. 

 

I know how to do this in Excel VBA given a file, but is it possible for Power BI to replicate this functionality with live data and produce an interactive table that users can select from a drop down menu and that selection would cause another filter to activate with another drop down menu? 

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  • d_gosbell's avatar
    d_gosbell
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    6 years ago

    So you can build custom visuals using the the Typescript SDK and in those you could add a button that triggers a file upload (the synoptic panel from OKViz does this sort of thing). And you can build custom visuals as slicers so that they filter other visuals, so this *may* be possible, but I can't say I've ever seen anyone attempt anything like this before.