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Slicer in Power BI Designer
I am trying to use a slicer with a chart in Power BI designer but it won't let me configure the slicer to list values horizontally? Am I missing something? The slicer looks ugly without this
- Two new features that should help you here Olly! Firstly, you can now set Slicers to 'horizontal' orientation (look in the formatting pane under the General section). And also you can use the 'Visual Interactions' feature to control whether charts cross-highlight or cross-filter other visuals! You can see details of that in our November update video: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-latest-update/#november-2015-update-2294217221 Hope that helps Will
But selecting a point in a chart HIGHLIGHTS that data, it doesn't FILTER it.
Two new features that should help you here Olly! Firstly, you can now set Slicers to 'horizontal' orientation (look in the formatting pane under the General section). And also you can use the 'Visual Interactions' feature to control whether charts cross-highlight or cross-filter other visuals! You can see details of that in our November update video: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-latest-update/#november-2015-update-2294217221
Hope that helps
Will