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Text Search Deprecated - what is its replacement?
All ( Anonymous pmurz mlucking motoray ),
MS support just contacted me and confirmed that the Text Filter visual will NOT be deprecated in response to community requests. The deprecation warning will go away within a week.
EDIT: It looks like they have pulled it from AppSource and the warning has returned. I have reopened my case and reached out to the product team for an update.
Hi pmurz ,
Please see the similar post:
It is suggested to use Search option in the slicer instead.
Best Regards,
Stephen Tao
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As others have said, the Standard Slicer is NOT a suitable alternative. It is replacing an elegant solution with a clunky work around.
Some examples:
- I want to pull up a graph for a certain part number prefix. There are 200 parts with that prefix. I'm suppose to use the search in the Slicer and manually select all 200 boxes?
- In theory, this shouln't happen much.. but I have seen it much. Inevitably at some point, when using multiple filters, a user ends up with boxes checked in the Standard Filter that don't show up becuase they've gotten lost in the longer list. It is not immediately apparent that something is filtered, and users get frustrated wondering why things aren't showing up. With the Text Slicer, this happens much less often because they see their entry up there.
- I use the Text Slicer because it uses minimal real-estate... 1 line. I will have to completely redesign numerous pages to fit a Standard Slicer because you need enough room for the checkboxes.
Finally, I have not seen a satisfactory WHY from MICROSOFT. I have seen some here say it is because the functionality is in the Standard Slicer. Unless there is going to be substantial improvement in the Standard Slicer to accomodate what the Text Slicer already provides, this is not a valid answer.
Anonymous
I agree that the slicer option isn't the same. I have the same issue with selecting certain part numbers but I use the Filter Panel and add the slicer/filter there. Then you can set those to "advanced filtering" and it gives you a number of ways to filter, including "starts with". Once you put something in there and apply the filter, it will filter the visual on the page to those products vs having to select each one manually if you use the slicer on the page.
Oh... yeah... now that's intuitive for users!!! NOT!!!
Again, replacing a simple, elegant solution with an inferior one.
The search filter on the standard filter slicer does not have the same functionality. For example, if you have multiple customers with "citi" in the name, the Text filter will filter all visuals on that page to all those customers that have "citi" in the name automatically. If you use the standard filter slicer, you have to manually select all the customers after the search unless I am misunderstanding how you use the standard filter slicer search option. Thanks.
Hi mlucking ,
What you said is correct. I recommend a similar alternative view. It is not guaranteed to be 100% the same. The developers of Text Filter visual don't maintain it anymore. Probably, it will be removed from AppSource soon. Please use alternative visuals.
Best Regards,
Stephen Tao
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So I'm wondering what we should do if--like us--you have a lot of reports published that use this visual? There isn't an alternative that provides the same functionality...at least none that I'm aware of. Just yesterday I was out trying the various alternatives in App Source and they don't filter the same way--at least not the free visuals.
I just realized that I can set the standard slicer (which we put in the Filter panel), to "advanced" and then use the "contains" function to get the same result as the Text Filter visual so that is a solution. Thanks!
It is not a viable alternative as we sometimes needs a search function on text fields where there is no reason neither added value to trade it for a slicer...
Anonymous Because of the community requests, the visual will stay and the error message will disappear soon. See solution to this topic :).
You are very right though that the slicer is no valid replacement for this visual, but luckily a replacement is not needed anymore!
