A Deneb Visual that contains only Radio Buttons

[y5famfnatudu]

Hello,

I have a field in a table that is called is_employee, this field is either 0 or 1. I want to create a Deneb (vega-lite) control that shows "2 radio buttons", the first is called "All", and the second is called "Employees" Selecting an option, filters the other Power BI visuals accordingly

Best regards,
Simon

[dm-p · Accepted solution]

Hi @y5famfnatudu,

Sounds like you're trying to use Deneb as a slicer? Unfortunately a custom visual can be built with functionality to either cross-filter or slice, but not both. Because slicing works very differently in the back-end to cross-filtering (you need to create your own logic to build and route filters to the main window), and because the majority of use cases for Deneb favour cross-filtering, Deneb doesn't have the functionality coded to perform slicing and it is not on the roadmap to do so, due to the aforementioned limitations with how visuals work in Power BI.

If you cannot model a solution that works with native slicers or filters in the pane, your best bet would be to develop a custom slicer visual using the visuals SDK specifically for this purpose.

Regards,

Daniel

[dm-p · Accepted solution]

Hi @y5famfnatudu,

Sounds like you're trying to use Deneb as a slicer? Unfortunately a custom visual can be built with functionality to either cross-filter or slice, but not both. Because slicing works very differently in the back-end to cross-filtering (you need to create your own logic to build and route filters to the main window), and because the majority of use cases for Deneb favour cross-filtering, Deneb doesn't have the functionality coded to perform slicing and it is not on the roadmap to do so, due to the aforementioned limitations with how visuals work in Power BI.

If you cannot model a solution that works with native slicers or filters in the pane, your best bet would be to develop a custom slicer visual using the visuals SDK specifically for this purpose.

Regards,

Daniel

[y5famfnatudu]

Sorry @dm-p to bother.
What if I want to use this Radio Button to slice other visuals, and not concerned with cross-filter. Would that still be possible? That would be so much appreciated.

Regards, Simon

[dm-p · Accepted solution]

Hi @y5famfnatudu,

Deneb doesn't contain the ability to slice other visuals at all. The functionality to slice other visuals cannot exist in a custom visual if it wishes to implement cross filtering or cross highlighting.

Whether you enable or disable cross filtering for the visual you're designing in Deneb is immaterial; Deneb itself cannot change to behave as a slicer because the custom visuals framework does not allow us to change this dynamically - the capability to specify a custom visual should behave as a slicer Has to be declared and coded before it is compiled into a .pbiviz.

Similarly if you were to code a custom visual that is declared to be a slicer, this cannot be cross filtered or cross-highlighted from other visuals.

Regards,

Daniel

[y5famfnatudu]

Tank you Daniel, for your clarification, I appreciate it so much