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Power BI Ideas Admin on 03 Oct 2014 07:12:28

Create a filter that allows me to say 'Show the top N categories by value', e.g. 'Top 5 countries by sales'

Administrator on 10 Jul 2020 16:04:36

I'm very pleased to say we've just released the ability to add TopN filters to your visuals in our October update. More details here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-october-feature-summary/#analytics Please keep submitting ideas and suggestions for other things we can do in this area!

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Joe Natarajan on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:26

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It is much needed for presenting insights and summaries . thanks

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sk on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:00

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Can't believe a BI product is designed without it > Who are my Top 10 customers, products, sales people

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Ranbeer M on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:57

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This functionality is available in Excel Pivots. Hoping this to be added in Power BI Visuals.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:37

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Yes please most useful

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Carlos Cruz on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:17

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Would be a very useful filter

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Saurabh Srivastava on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:09

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Need a way from which we can create some visualization for Top n say Top 10 subsidiaries in sales without doing any changes in model. This should also work with live connections.

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Greg on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:48

RE: Top N Filters

To those saying that the RANKX () workaround as described in the link below is a sufficient workaround, I disagree very strongly. This requires the model designer to know in advance exactly which field and measure combination needs to be able to have a Top N filter. This is unreasonable, especially if a report includes many Top N visuals. One of the major promises of the Power BI Service is that the same user need not understand modelling to be able to put together powerful reports.

https://dataonwheels.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/adding-top-10-charts-to-power-view-which-honor-filters/

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Ferdinand on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:24

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As Michiel Rozema stated, you can include the top10 rule via DAX, using the RANKX function

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Breno Abramoff on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:19

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Top 10 AND Cummulative (eg. Cumulative % of sales, etc.) ...please.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:22

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RANKX is seems to be useful if you're using a calculated column against an entire data set, but if I'm using a filter, for example, wanting to rank within a specific reason, I don't have a way to show TOP N within the scope of that filter.

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