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ImaKickUrBut
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How to deselect visual table rows with a button

Hello!

 

I have a couple of cross-sliced table visuals with a medium amout of rows and my users are getting confused about why the "Clear All Filters" button clears slicers but doesn't de-select table rows. They don't always realize when they have a row selected, so they submit trouble tickets because they can't find the additional related rows and think there's data missing, but they just need to scroll to & deselect a table row.

 

Is there a way to deselect table visual rows with a button? or is there another on-page approach to reset tables to their un-selected state?

 

Thanks in advance!!

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danextian
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Hi @ImaKickUrBut 

You can bookmark the deselected state of a visual.  For it to go back to the deselected date, Data option must be checked which also means that if a visual filter is applied to the viz, it will go back to the state prior to applying the visual filter.

danextian_0-1730522322348.png

Another option is, of course, to educate your user through training or by adding a guide somewhere in the report.

 





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danextian
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Hi @ImaKickUrBut 

You can bookmark the deselected state of a visual.  For it to go back to the deselected date, Data option must be checked which also means that if a visual filter is applied to the viz, it will go back to the state prior to applying the visual filter.

danextian_0-1730522322348.png

Another option is, of course, to educate your user through training or by adding a guide somewhere in the report.

 





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Thank you @danextian! this solves my table record de-selecting issue.
Is there a way to clear all slicers AND delselect the table visual records? the bookmark resets all the slicers & sets the visuals back to their original state for the most part, but a user typed some letters in a slicer search dropdown & bookmark does not clear that text, but clicking a 'clear all slicers' action button does. is it possible to add both bookmark & clear all slicers actions to a button?

Hi @FreemanZ ,

 

thanks, I have a 'clear all slicers' (labeled clear all filters) button but it doesn't deselect table rows. 

 

Is there a potential solution with bookmarks mentioned in the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/buttons-apply-all-clear-all-slicers?tabs=p... article? I haven't used the bookmarks feature yet!

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