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Woodyy
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How to drill down between unrelated columns

Hi everybody, 

i have an issue related to the drill down feature. 
I would create a drill down starting from column A where is possibile to visualize three other columns (B,C,D) which are not related to the first one.

I have tried to create a hyerarchy by trying to set the columns B,C,D on the same level but I don't understand if it is actually possibile. 

as from the picture, only the tallest column(A) should be visible, while the other 3(B,C,D) should be hidden by the drill down. 

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 Thanks!!!

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Anonymous
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Hi @Woodyy 

 

If you're going to use Drill up/down, then your data must have a hierarchy, like this sample:

vzhengdxumsft_1-1730341163866.png

The Clustered column chart:

vzhengdxumsft_2-1730341181838.png

When you drill down the A column, this does hide the other columns, but instead of showing A, it shows all the subdivisions below A:

vzhengdxumsft_3-1730341458446.png

 

If you want to hide other columns, maybe you can use the Slicer:

vzhengdxumsft_4-1730341502999.pngvzhengdxumsft_5-1730341525406.png

 

 

Best Regards

Zhengdong Xu
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Thank you so much for the reply! 

unfortunately this is not the case since the database itself is organized in a different way. 
in fact instead of having a column for the ID, a column for ID2 and a column for values I have  a column for A, and 3 other columns for AAA, BBB and CCC, which are actually subsets of A. These columns are made up by the values that each item(AAA,BBB,CCC) shows for each month. Then, I also have date columns where year and months are expressed.

image.jpg

 however AAA BBB and CCC are subsets of A and I would like to show it in a drill down or something similar. What can I do? 

thank you!!!

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