Is there a decimal number slicer in in PowerBI?

[jmbouffard]

I'm showing a collection of points on a map in PowerBI and I would like to filter them to show, for example, only points contained between latitude x and y.

I can do that using the filter panel by setting rules on my latitude so it shows only points with latitude greater than x and less than y. However, I'd like to use a visual component to do that. The "Advanced Time Slicer" from the Visuals Gallery seems to do something really similar to what I'd like to achieve however it works with date/time values only.

I think what I would need is a simple and generic slicer that can select a range within a set of decimal values. Is there any component in PowerBI to achieve this ?

[Anonymous]

Hi jmbouffard,

Besides using the filter panel to set rule for your latitude, there is no built-in decimal number slicer or custom visual that could be used to filter latitude range.

To work around this issue, you can consider to create a new column defining different latitude range in your source and create a slicer based on this column.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

[ankitpatira]

@jmbouffard Use time brush visual from custom visuals gallery.

[Anonymous]

@ankitpatira How is that helpful? The time brush visual still expects a date.  

[jmbouffard]

@ankitpatira The time brush visual tries to map my values into time format and I couldn't find any option to configure it diffrently. For example I tried a set of data with latitude values in decimal from 42.0 to 48.0 N and the component displayed years from 1942 to 1948 with months in between each year.