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MiguelMartinez
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft EmployeeSlicer 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
You might consider adding chart against the same data source and use that to slice the data. Since the charts are linked in the reports when you select a bar or pie slice ( for example) it should dynamically filter the other charts that are connected similar to how the slicer might behave.
But selecting a point in a chart HIGHLIGHTS that data, it doesn't FILTER it.
- WillT
Community Admin
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 - andre
Memorable Member
If you use a line chart, it will get filtered (unlike a bar chart) , but generally speaking you are right, having formatting options for a Slicer would definitely be much better.
