Highlight filter when filter is used

[Flappy8Flapjack]

Dear reader,

Please help me out. In my dashboard I have various filter options (dropdowns). My end-user would like to have the filters highlighted when used, but I can not figure out how to solve this in the visual options. For example, my dropdown box is now lightgrey, but when selected/used i would like to make it a darker colour. In the section when you can wright down 'if/or --> then' it only selects som. But That is not a solution for me. I hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Jochem

[DAXStreetBoys]

I had the same requirement recently. Googling uncovered that border/background colors of slicers cannot be conditioned on a measure.

My workaround was to place a rectangle around (and behind) the slicer (making it 100% transparent), and conditioning border color of said rectangle on a simple measure that checks if the slicer field is being used to filter - example below:

IF(ISFILTERED('Table'[SlicerColumn])=TRUE(),1,0).

If your slicer has multiple levels (3 for example), you can use IF(ISFILTERED('Table'[Column1])||ISFILTERED('Table'[Column1.1]||ISFILTERED('Table'[Column1.2]) = TRUE(),1,0) to check each one.

The condition I applied to the rectangle's border color was based on the output of the measure being 1 or 0 - either orange, or white/colorless respectively)


Pictured above - Slicer and conditionally formatted rectangle around dropdown

It's probably too late for your requirement. Took me a while to figure this out, so throwing it out there for posterity 🙂

[GeorgeVepkhvadz]

This is what I did as well, but there should definitely be simpler solution to this, then this workaround for the future. 

[GeorgeVepkhvadz]

Not sure why answer was accepted as solution, but question wasn't about higlighting the visuals, but about highlighting the slicers which are in use with different colour. 

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Flappy8Flapjack ,

As far as I know, Power BI only support us to filter the visuals by filter field or slicer. If you want to highlight your visual, I suggest you to create a visual (not slicer) and then use cross-highlight in Edit interactions option.

For reference:

Change how visuals interact in a Power BI report

Filters and highlighting in Power BI reports

Result is as below.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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