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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.
Just got off the phone with support. They confirm that the visual will be deprecated, but the timeline for the official deprecation is unknown. Once this occurs, the reports that use it will continue to load, but the visual will show an error, will not load any data, and will have to be replaced. Current recommendation is to reconfigure reports to use the slicer visual or an alternative from AppSource, even though they acknowledge that there are no visuals with feature parity.
Further, they confirmed there is no way to identify all the reports that have been published containing this visual. Their recommendation is to manually navigate to each report, open it, go into edit mode, then confirm the visuals it is using and replace/reconfigure as needed.
Thank you for taking this to MS support.
The real issue that I read in most of the dialog here is:
> WHY is it being deprecated? and
> WHAT VISUAL does the MS PRODUCT TEAM (not the support call team ) expect us to use instead? The alternatives presented so far are suboptimal and the PRODUCT TEAM should have some insight.
DOES anyone know of a way to communicate directly with the team that makes these choices?
Thanks
The product team recommends using the Slicer as a replacement (WHAT VISUAL). My understanding is that they are migrating the functionality of the text filter to the Slicer (WHY), but they could not confirm that all of the functionality would be available before the text filter is officially deprecated.
Search functionality has been added to the Slicer for datasets that contain strings. It does not work with integers or dates.
BamDastard , Thank you for the reply.
I originally accepted your response as the solution to the posted question, but I changed my mind. Your response does explain some portion of the MS product team's approach, but does not solve the problem. The SLICER visual does not have the search functionality. I feel that they absolutely should add SEARCH functionality prior to deprecating the TEXT FILTER visual.