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EaglesTony
Post Prodigy
Post Prodigy

Is there a way to base a drill through off a slicer value ?

I have 4 pages on a report:

 

Parent     

   Child

      GrandChild

            GreatGrandChild

 

I can drill through Parent-->Child and Child-->GrandChild and GrandChild-->GreatGrandChild.

 

Now I have a new page with all 4 levels on a table(no certain order) WITH a slicer on type (i.e. Parent/Child/etc).

 

Slicer: (Values in here are Parent,Child,GrandChild,GreatGrandChild)

Parent1     

Parent2

Child1 of Parent1

Child2 of Parent1

GrandChild of Child1

GrandChild of Child2

GreatGrandChild of Child2

 

What I want to do, is if the slicer has "GrandChild", I want to dynamically drill through to GreatGrandChildren  (and other levels as well). Thus, basically any level can be a drill through but smart enough to drill to the right level.

 

 

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mariussve1
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

If you use a button for drillthrough its possible to use conditional formatting (transparence) on diffrent buttons based on slicer selection.

 

Marius


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Marius
BI Fabrikken
www.bifabrikken.no
Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @EaglesTony ,

Regarding your question, Power BI does not appear to support dynamic drilling through slicers. You might be able to achieve what you need using field parameters.

The Table data is shown below:

vzhouwenmsft_0-1721184501141.png

Create field parameter.

vzhouwenmsft_1-1721184568956.png

Replace with the column name that needs to be drilled.

vzhouwenmsft_2-1721184653407.png

 

Final output

vzhouwenmsft_3-1721185280501.png

vzhouwenmsft_4-1721185293682.png

 

Best Regards,
Wenbin Zhou

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