Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

[abhishek_sreesa]

Ability to select multiple items in a chart say multiple bars, pie's etc and automatically have filters applied to all the existing reports. this helps to highlight anomalies and see all the surrounding reports changes as we do it and showcase risks/opportunities

[luiz_fornazza]

Ow noo , i spent a lot of hours working in power BI to find out that it doesn't have an essential feature like this one ? I thought P BI was all about selecting filters in graphics .... i will not use power bi anymore until this feature comes out.

[jm_desmon]

All our users ask for this feature

[thubley]

This really needs to be an enhancement. Not being able to drill down on multiple visuals hinders the end user's experience

[mike_lees]

Just found a "slicer" visualisation tool in PowerBI desktop (not checked online version to see if it's there too). It does what it says on the tin! I have used multiple slicer tools on the same page, linked to different data fields and they produce multiple, stacked slices of the data. Using the tool when a field linked to the tool is already in another visual is a little wasteful of page real estate, but it's a small price to pay for this functionality. Well done DevOps team for listening to your customers and thank you!

[mike_lees]

I concur. I believe that it is possible to slice a report using up to three concurrent filters, but only using the "Visualisations" control in the desktop. The filters have "visual", "page" and "report" scope. It appears to me that this was the original intention, but that requests for "point and click" functionality caused the "visual" filter to be extended to accept a "point and click" event (fair enough) *and* extended to have "page" scope", which then causes logical hierarchy decision problems if this is extended to multiple clicks. Reason why I believe this is true. I experimented and found this behaviour: Create a report with multiple visuals, visualising the same data. Make one of them multiple level. Make a selection in a single level visual. Check that the visual in the multiple level visual changes (your data views intersect). Now go down one level in the multi-level visual. Click in an element of the visual. That visual changes but the single level visual doesn't. Now go up one level. The view at this level has changed (assuming that this view would change with the selection just made at the previous level). Implementation suggestion: Users need to make a functionality choice and know that they have done so and how to reverse out if it was a mistake or if they get "buried". So implement a high level filter functionality selection menu with filter scope selections: Single slice page only; Multi slice page only; multi slice all report; Reset filters. Breadcrumbs would be good to follow selection history. If the user could select any breadcrumb to get to that filter point then a "reset" option isn't needed in the menu.

[jean-marc_busca]

I also totally agree. I would be great to have an option on the "nothing" icon in "edit interactions" to avoid the selection on the visual to be removed when another selection is made on another visual. It would really improve data exploration with a better user experience.

[h_seiji_f]

This is a MUST for business understanding!

[maxburm]

This is partially implemented (multi selection within one chart). What is missing - selecting multiple items from different charts

[maxburm]

Missing this feature for ages! Why does it take so much time to add it, all the functionality is already developed 😞 Dear Power BI development team, please, don't "deselect" whatever is selected in a visual when I click another visual (if [Shift] key is pressed or some screen key for touch users)

[d_damhuis]

This is the most requested feature from Power BI Users in the company.