How to make a bar chart in highlight mode instead of filter mode under a slicer

[charlie77]

Just silly enough not to find a way out for such a simple thing - advice needed. A barchart with a slicer as blow

This is however not what I want - once select in the slicer, the barchart only shows the selected bars. What I want is a highlighted style (as below) which is perfect if I use a table instead of a slicer, after I swithched from filter mode to highlight mode as shown by the red cricle that is non-existent using slicer (when  "Edit interaction" is activated).  

I don't really want, however, to use a table as a slicer as it's not easy for muptile selections.  Avice please.

Thanks

charlie77

[v-chenwuz-msft]

Hi @charlie77 ,

The slicer removes unchecked data and is an cross-filter, cross-highlighting will keep unchecked data.
However, the slicer does not support retaining unchecked data.

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ chenwu zhu

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

[charlie77]

Is there anyone e.g. from MS who could confirm that there is no such functionality to swithch a chart controlled by a slicer from filter mode to highlight mode? If confrmed, I will try Wenjie's suggesiton to close the case. 

Thanks

[Chew_WenJie]

Hello, you can follow this thread, i think it will help you.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Filtering-a-value-in-a-slicer-and-coloring-it-by-different-...  

[charlie77]

Thanks but I didn't expect that comlex. For the other guy's problem, if using a table instead of a slicer for employees he/she will solve the problem instantly (only one employee needs to selected each time anayway ). if for multiple seletion he/she needs to press and hold Ctrl - not convienet at all. 

I'll give my problem a bit wait to see if there is any simpler way. I'd presume P-BI should have this built in.