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MP_123
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago
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dashboard's slicer

hi,

i created a dashboard using two reports.

i took one slicer from one of the reports but when select something, it doesnt affect the tiles in the dashboard, what's the point?

how can i change it?

 

thanks!

 

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5 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    10 years ago

    Hi MP_123,

    Currently, in Power BI service, you can only pin entire report page which contains slicer to your dashboard by selecting Pin Live Page in the top navigation bar. This way, you can use the slicer to filter the chart within the tile. For more details, please check the following blog.

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-weekly-service-update-1210/

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

  • wonga's avatar
    wonga
    Continued Contributor
    10 years ago

    MP_123,

     

    Dashboards are supposed to provide a general overview of the content one would like to see. If you wanted to get into further detail you would click on a particular visual which then leads you to the origin of that visual.

     

    Slicers are meant to be fully interactive in the report view, not the dashboard view.

    • t-atgeor's avatar
      t-atgeor
      Microsoft Employee
      10 years ago

      Hi wonga,

       

      thanks for the response, however, often users are not interested in the details and would simply take a brief / fast look on certain attriutes. Then a slicer in the dashboard, working on the whole dashboard, would minimize the time significantly and allow the user to establish the needed view quite faster. Is there a current solution to that issue? I understand that users would spend more time on the source/ report view, but sometimes you only need a figure or very concrete view.

       

      Thanks, Atanas

  • vishal0soni's avatar
    vishal0soni
    Advocate III
    9 years ago

    In Dashboards, the Q&A feature should be used, as it provides much better experience than slicers. 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      I disagree. 

       

      I'd much rather see a filter with clickable option than a blank query box and try to guess at how I might be able to filter a report via writing text.  

       

      The basic problem we have here is that we can add components, but not the slicers to filter them. Or we can add a live page view which is the same view as the base report. What we don't have is a way to add a subset of visualizations with filters.