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amdavis8787
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5 years ago

Sticky Select Visuals -- How do I use visuals as slicers?

Hi,

 

Background: In order make efficient use of space in our dashboards, we have been using the Power BI customer visual "Attribute Slicer". This visual is essentially a vertical bar chart that also slices the data.

 

i.e. when you click a bar on the Attribute Slicer visual, it stays selected, even if you click other visuals. For standard visuals, if you click another visual, it will deselect all other visuals unless you use ctrl+click.

 

My problem: our organization will be disabling all non-certified visuals and the Attribute Slicer is not certified.

 

Is there a way to make standard visuals (bar chart, etc.) have sticky selections? Ctrl+click is not a viable alternative for our users, it is too confusing.

 

Thanks for any help / ideas.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    5 years ago

     amdavis8787

    I cannot think of any workaround. See if the default slicer with horizontal orientation can achieve similar output.

     

     

    Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team

    • amdavis8787's avatar
      amdavis8787
      New Member
      5 years ago

      Hi V-pazhen-msft, thanks for your response. Unfortunately this does not work, because I would need to have both Items and Values. The standard slicer only lets you show one dimention. For example, I want a slicer that can let me filter on different products, but also shows how many have been sold in each category. 

       

      The best solution to this would be if Microsoft would enable "sticky" selections (or essentally CTRL+Click without having to hold CTRL, like a slicer) on any visual.