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Anonymous
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6 years ago

How to filter a legend on a visual?

Hi all,   I have a visual that has 3 filter tables applied: Position, Product, and Market Type.   I would like my legend to be filtered when selecting the various table filters. Is this possible?...
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sanimesa
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6 years ago

@helmsb One possible workaround - turn off the legend altogether. Then use a DAX formula to get the selected value for each filter condition and show it under the chart on a card. 

 

Something like:

 

position selected = IF(ISBLANK(SELECTEDVALUE(YourTable[position]), "", SELECTEDVALUE(YourTable[position])
 
 
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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Interesting idea! Would i be able to somehow format the cards to be a specific color tied to the specific filter condition? Otherwise it wont be possible to know which line is which in a scenario like this:

 

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    sanimesa
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    6 years ago

    Anonymous Not sure about this - my assumption was you are showing only one line at a time. In which case you do not need the color to distinguish.

    you may be able to set all the line colors of a particular type to a fixed color. So, assuming you have two filters and each correspond to a different color, you can probably use a fixed color on your card. 

    Again, I am probably not getting your use case completely. 

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      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      No problem. The reason why i really like this graph is that i can look at the market type or products of all my positions on the fly. So i can look at as many lines as i would like. I can compare Energy DA prices of all my positions or RT regulation prices of 2 positions, etc.

       

      The only issue i have is the darn legend not dynamically updating to show what each line represents. 

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      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      I also forgot to mention that all my data points are currently measures suming the column data. I like to do that since it simplifies the DAX forumulas i need to write.