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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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How to keep slicer visible?

I have built a dashboard with several pages that are set up the same way. On one of them, the year filter/slicer disappears when you click on the pie chart that the slicer is connected to. I have tri...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    I did figure out how to fix it- I shrunk the pie charts so that the edge of the filer is just barely to the right of the pie chart. I don't know why bringing the filter forward didn't work. I have used this project for a couple of years, and I think this issue just popped up and I'm not sure why. But for now this is working!

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thomazinh
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3 years ago

Try the following: 

(A) You can turn off the background on your pie chart under Format>General>Effects>Background. This way it'll be transparent and the slicer will always show. 

(B) Ensure the layer order of the slicer is above the pie chart

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    Anonymous
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    3 years ago

    Turning the background off does keep the slicer visible, but then it won't let me select a different year after I have selected the pie chart. Is it worth trying to completely rebuilt the page?