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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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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

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

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        Anonymous
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        6 years ago

        I thought i would circle around and give a final determination on this. A dynamic legend is a must in my book. But since Power BI doesnt have it, what i did is used colored shapes behind the position slicer options and then manually formatted the colors to be the same. 

         

        This is still not ideal as i had to break 1 graph out into 3 graphs; otherwise one couldnt diferentiate the different products tied to the same resource. And there is a "understood rule" that the darker line is the DA postion while the lighter line is the RT position. Dynamic legends please.

        Thanks,

         

        Brian