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Anonymous
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Visualization Table Grid Repopulates/Resorts when Record is Selected

Hello,

 

I have an important project I am working on.  I am building a Power BI report. I have a Pie Chart and a Grid.  The pie chart contains all the Products and the time working on these products.  When I select a product on the pie chart, the grid populates with only the records that go with that product as it is suppose to do.  The problem is when I click on a row in the table grid, the data in the grid repopulates/re-sorts instead of just highlighting the selected row(record).  How can I prevent this repoplating of the data in the grid when I select a particular record?

 

Kind Regards,

Kelly

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Hi @Anonymous,

 

That's the expected results. The highlight status can't be kept all the time. But you can keep the status by using "CTRL" + mouse click. You can give it a try.

Visualization_Table_Grid_Repopulates_Resorts_when_Record_is_Selected

 

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Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
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parry2k
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@@Anonymous

 

not sure which visual you are using for grid? Are you using table/matrix visual? When you select a row in a table/matrix, expected behaviour is that it will highlight the row in grid and filter the pie chart.  Not sure why it repopulating/sorting etc, please provide more details

 



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Anonymous
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Hello @parry2k,

 

I am using the table visual.  If I select a product (Product A) on the pie chart, the table then shows all the records for Product A, which it is suppose to do.  Then when I select a row in the table grid for one of the records associated with Product A, it repopulates/resorts the table and the table actually becomes faded (greyed out) until I reclick on the pie chart.  Any idea what is causing this?  I don't want the table to behave like this.

 

Kind Regards,

Kelly

@Anonymous not sure what is going on. Is it possible to do a screen grab of your action to show what is going on



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Anonymous
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@parry2k

 

I reproduced the issue using the AdventureWorksDW2012 database.

 

In the Picture, I select Product in chart.  Table grid shows correct values.In the Picture, I select Product in chart. Table grid shows correct values.Getting Ready to select record Brittany Price.Getting Ready to select record Brittany Price.After I select record, grid resorts to Aaron Hughes and the whole grid is dimmed out.After I select record, grid resorts to Aaron Hughes and the whole grid is dimmed out.

Hi @Anonymous,

 

That's the expected results. The highlight status can't be kept all the time. But you can keep the status by using "CTRL" + mouse click. You can give it a try.

Visualization_Table_Grid_Repopulates_Resorts_when_Record_is_Selected

 

Best Regards,
Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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@v-jiascu-msft

 

Perfect, Just what I was looking for!

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