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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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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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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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    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. 

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      v-deddai1-msft
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      6 years ago

      Hi Anonymous ,

       

      I'm afraid it's not able to use slicer to change legend dynamically. Would you please check the jakepwills's reply in https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Dynamic-Legends-via-Slicer-2017/m-p/162296#M70688 to see if it will help.

       

      As a workaround, could you please combine the buttons and bookmark: https://radacad.com/bookmarks-and-buttons-making-power-bi-charts-even-more-interactive

       

      If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

       

      Best Regards,

      Dedmon Dai

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        Hi,

         

        This ended up not helping me too much. Is there a way to filter out the blank columns after a table filter has been applied? I think this would fix my legend issue. I tried using a visual level filter (show items when the value 'is not ' 0') but that ended up causing the entire visual to go blank regardless of what filters i selected.

         

        Thanks,

         

        Brian