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Hi there, I am new to Power BI and I don't know the full functionality of the tool.
I am an advanced Spotfire user and one part of Spotfire's functionality I miss is the ability to highlight a section of a graph (by dragging the mouse across it) and have the details for the highlighted section populate in a table. Is this method of filtering possible in Power BI?
To explain further I have a scatter plot with each point representing a person. I'd like to highlight a section of the graph (so a section of the population) and have the information for the highlight people appear in my data table I've created.
Can anyone help?
Cheers
Paul
Agree, its something a feature which Spotfire provides.
Per my experience, doesn't seem its possible today.
You can vote the below idea raised by one of users who need this too -
Regards
cast my vote!!!
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