filter out sales people

[gellismyers]

Hello,

I have a list of sales reps that I want in a slicer.  Is there a way to filter out reps based on another slicer that is filtering for time period.

So, a certain set of reps had no sales in 2018 because they didn't work for us.  Is there a way to eliminate those reps from the Sales Rep slicer?

Thank you

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@gellismyers seems like you have sales person and date dimension and realted to sales table. You can set relationship cross filter direction to "both" and that will show only sales person based on period selected in date dimension.

Keep in mind, cross filter direction can have performance impact on large datasets.

[gellismyers]

Nevermind, I made the date-sales by manufacturer table bi directional rather than the sales dimension to sales by manufacturer table.  Once I fixed that it worked.

Thank you so much for your help.

[gellismyers]

Thanks a bunch.

When I go back and do that, it blows up some of my visuals:

'Couldn't load data for this visual'

Calculation error in mesaure "xxx":  function 'sameperiodlastyear' expects a contiguous selection when the date column comes from a table on the 1 side of a bi-directional relationship'

Any thoughts on that?  Sorry if that is an easy fix.  I'm a relatively new user but I've learned a lot.