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petersi
Helper II
Helper II

Report Filter on specific Values not dataset values

I have a report, and there is a field that I am filtering on. The field has two values

  • true
  • false

I am seeing that when applying the filter if the field in the dataset the filter is applied to does not have a value then it is not able to filter across. This makes sense since the filtering is based on the values in the associated field. What i would like to know is how can I configure a filter but specify the values of the filter instead of having it use the dataset field values.

 

for example

 

data set

field 1   field 2

true      john

true     doe

 

- want to apply a filter to Field 1 of the above data set (i.e want to filter on field 1) - but I'd like the filter to be setup to have true and false in the selection - and not just true as would result because the dataset has no false values in field 1.

 

Peter

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @petersi,

 

In this scenario, you may need to add a new table with a single column which contains values TRUE and FALSE, and create a relationship between your source table and the new created table. Then you should be able to use the column in the new created table as a Slicer to filter your source table. Smiley Happy

 

t1.PNGrelation1.PNGr1.PNG

 

Regards

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @petersi,

 

In this scenario, you may need to add a new table with a single column which contains values TRUE and FALSE, and create a relationship between your source table and the new created table. Then you should be able to use the column in the new created table as a Slicer to filter your source table. Smiley Happy

 

t1.PNGrelation1.PNGr1.PNG

 

Regards

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