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Hi Everyone,
A question regarding filters.
I have two tables VdateDim ( a standard date dimension table from SQL) and a data table called variance reporting.
On my report, I have a time and date slicer using the date from VdateDim. Then I have a graph with some data (say material on X and Total variance on Y). I have page filters set up from variance data: plant, manager name, EmployeeName. When I set the filter on Plant, I want it to change the other filter to only show the managers in that plant or for example I may select a manager and only see the employees for that manager. Also if I change the date on the slicer, I want to only show the managers (or employees) on that date with variances.
I have tried: changing the relationship to bidirectional, creating a summary table of managers and plants with an index to variance data.
Any help would be great
Regards, K.
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I think I'm still getting my terms correct. Slicer = visual, while filter = something in the filter tab.
I'm using the filter pane because it frees up so much space on the canvas.
Therefore, when someone selects a filter, say plant from the example, I'm trying to get the other filters to update with only the selections that are pertinent.
I think I solved the problem by creating a summary table of plant, connecting the summary plant table to variance reporting and setting the filter = plant.[plant] instead of variancereporting.[plant].
Is that the proper way to handle? It seems to work.
