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Cofinia
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8 years ago
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data entry in a visualization in your report

Hi all, I have a report that I use for several companies. Each company has different FY and data set and we add those in parameters to set it up quickly.   One of page of my report is for actual ...
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    v-chuncz-msft
    8 years ago

    Cofinia,

     

    Try to add a table and create relationship, then a slicer might be helpful.

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Have you considered using Query Editor parameters?

 

You could offer a series of these to the report user which drive some Query Editor functions around date start/end ranges etc

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Cofinia
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi Phil,

Thank you for helping me.

Yes I tought of it, but I want to keep it really really simple for the user.

I was wandering if I could add tile to the first page of the report and have the user enter a value that I could then push to the parameter.

I would not want the user to go into desktop to add parameters

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    v-chuncz-msft
    Community Support
    8 years ago

    Cofinia,

     

    Try to add a table and create relationship, then a slicer might be helpful.

    • Cofinia's avatar
      Cofinia
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      HI

      I thought about that yesterday.

      I'm going to add an excel spreadsheet so the can enter the numbers and I will add this file to my data model.

      Thank you for your help