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Hi PBI Community,
In my company I need to work by the DirectQuery mode to visualize data from the following table:
My assignment is to the following table with two slicers of it:
Now I've been told by my customer that they want to keep all items in the top Product Category slicer visible, even if they're not available in the selected company:
Not this:but this:
So in the case visible above, my customer wants to see an empty table when you set the Product Category slicer to 'Cars'.
Since it's in directquery mode I can't add columns. I can only add measures.
I'm not able/allowed to make changes in the source file.
Can anyone help me figure out how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Above is a simplified example, in reality this list consists of more companies and a total of more than 10K products.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @HansWeltenV
You can manipulate your slicers with format options from the report view.
Follow these steps:
1. Select your first slicer (company name in your case) + in format options click on "edit interactions":
2. Turn off the filtering option:
Result of Selecting category and subcategory which not exists
Link for sample file: Here
If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly
This works great.
Now I've got a further question. Besides the interaction between visuals, how to change the interaction of a visual (same slicer in this case) when you reach this tab by drill through (that filters it to one item of "company").
I tried selecting the drill through filter and see if I could change the relation of that slicer to it, but with the drill through I don't see any edit interactions option.
Thanks in advance!
I added this as a separate item:
Great! That seems like it should work. I'll try it tomorrow.
Thanks!
Hi @HansWeltenV
You can manipulate your slicers with format options from the report view.
Follow these steps:
1. Select your first slicer (company name in your case) + in format options click on "edit interactions":
2. Turn off the filtering option:
Result of Selecting category and subcategory which not exists
Link for sample file: Here
If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly
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