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gblanks
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Power BI Paginated Report have one parameter effect the available selections of another parameter

Hello, I have a very specific thing that I want to do within Power bi paginated reports, and I can't seem to find any way of doing it. Specifically, I want to have two separate parameters: a "Project" parameter where the user selects the specific project that they are working on, and then a "Report Number" parameter that has the specific report that the user wants to export, where the available values for the report number parameter change based on the selection of the project I can't seem to find any way of doing this. I can set up the first parameter pretty easily; I just set it up like a normal parameter, but I can't get its selection to edit the available values for the report number parameter. It always shows up with every report number between all projects, along with multiples of the same report number, so basically it isn't filtering the selections available at all. Ideally, what I would want is that when I make a selection with the "Project" parameter, it would limit the possible selections for the "Report Number" to only the report numbers from rows that have the selected project as their parent project, but if thats not possible, just some way of making the report number parameter filter not have duplicate values, and then later, like in the query for the reports, I just use a where clause to refine the query. Thank you!

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v-yaningy-msft
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Hi, @gblanks 

 

Based on your description, you want to create two parameters in a paged report and one of the parameters can influence the selection range of the other parameter, Cascading Parameters in a paged report meets your needs. You can define a set of related parameters so that the list of values for one parameter depends on the values selected in the other parameter. For example, the first parameter is independent and might display a list of product categories. When the user selects a category, the second parameter depends on the value of the first parameter. Its value will be updated using the list of subcategories in the selected category. When the user views the report, the values of both the category and subcategory parameters are used to filter the report data. Please refer to the official documentation for details on how to do this.

Configuring cascading parameters: Add cascading parameters to a Power BI paginated report - Power BI | Microsoft Learn


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Yang
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v-yaningy-msft
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Hi, @gblanks 

 

Based on your description, you want to create two parameters in a paged report and one of the parameters can influence the selection range of the other parameter, Cascading Parameters in a paged report meets your needs. You can define a set of related parameters so that the list of values for one parameter depends on the values selected in the other parameter. For example, the first parameter is independent and might display a list of product categories. When the user selects a category, the second parameter depends on the value of the first parameter. Its value will be updated using the list of subcategories in the selected category. When the user views the report, the values of both the category and subcategory parameters are used to filter the report data. Please refer to the official documentation for details on how to do this.

Configuring cascading parameters: Add cascading parameters to a Power BI paginated report - Power BI | Microsoft Learn


Best Regards,
Yang
Community Support Team

 

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

How to get your questions answered quickly --  How to provide sample data in the Power BI Forum

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