How to exclude some values from a slicer?

[ibrahimsharaf]

Hello, I am using a slicer with takes a column of strings, some values in this colomn don't contain a value, I don't want to delete these records as its row has another useful data, how can I exclude those empty values from the slicer (as in the screenshot), maybe using a measure?, any help?

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to add to this that the workaround works again! You can change it to a table and select which ones and then change it back to a slicer.

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@Anonymous - they added in the functionality directly to the slicer now. You don't need to switch from table to slicer, you can just add a filter to a slicer like all the other visuals.

[v-haibl-msft]

@ibrahimsharaf

As Eno1978 said, the workaround does not work after the June update. You can vote the idea in below links.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-i​deas/suggestions/15091614-can-no-longer-filter-a-...

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-i​deas/suggestions/12545673-visual-level-filtering-...

Best Regards,

Herbert

[Seth_C_Bauer · Accepted solution]

@ibrahimsharaf Oh man, this one is a sore point with me. "Before" the June update, all you had to do was change the visual to a table and filter out any of the values, then change it back to a slicer and the filter would be respected. For some reason (unknown to me) they removed this work around and haven't yet provided a filter option for the slicer.

At this point, I don't see a way to do this simply. 😞