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Add others options to TopN Filter

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on 14 Nov 2016 02:22:53

Add "Others" option to the current TopN feature. That would greatly advance user experience as it allows to compress the data set, highlight the most important insights (e.g. Top 5 Sales), but still gives an overview of all of the data.

Jeroen ter Heerdt (administrator) on 18 Apr 2022 20:22:12

We have considered this as part of other enhancements to filters but need more votes to prioritize it.

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Steven Myers on 07 Mar 2022 15:21:59

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

This would be very helpful as you do not know the relation of top N to the rest of the grouping.

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Chandra Vadana Rajamohan on 21 Jan 2022 04:02:42

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

Top N + Others is available in Inforiver, you can also choose Bottom N and Top + Bottom N using an intuitive interface. Check out this demo.

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Antoine URRUTIAGUER on 13 Jan 2022 09:41:48

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I think this is a Must Have in Visualization options without having to code complex DAX

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Stephen Johnson on 06 Jan 2022 16:51:34

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This would be great, I can't believe it's not in already. Qlik can do this why can't Power BI.

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Mark van der Meij on 05 Oct 2021 12:48:52

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Qlik has had this option for ever. I was highly disappointed to find this missing in powerbi. And the need to create an additional table for "others" for each dimension you want, is rediculous. How would one of my end users be able to do that? especially since I'm only offering them SSAS cubes for use.
Please add a checkbox to the filter settings, with "Show others" and a field with "Other Description" where you can set the text. That would be much appreciated.

TopN is a much used feature in reports.

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on 30 Sep 2021 21:41:02

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

I almost always consolidate small values in Pie / Bar charts into an "Others" Category to reduce the noise and size of charts. It would be great if this was a default property of the Visual. So if any value is below a % or absolute value of the total amount, roll the legend item into Other. Just like how we do for Custom Groupings.

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on 30 Sep 2021 21:41:02

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

Let's say I have a set containing 100 elements and i would like to visualize (either in a table or in graph) the top 6 individually (i.e. by Sales amount) and the bottom 94 as an aggregated "Other" element (by mean, sum, etc. depending on the need).

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on 30 Sep 2021 21:40:53

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I am creating a monthly profitability matrix on top 10 customers and it would be great to have an "other" bucket to represent the customers not in the top 10!

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on 30 Sep 2021 21:40:53

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

It would be awesome if you could configure a dynamic 'TopN' group and have Power BI automatically group everyone else 'Not in TopN' into a separate 'Others' group so the values could be displayed in the same chart.

There is currently no straightforward way to achieve this.

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on 30 Sep 2021 21:40:53

RE: Add others options to TopN Filter

Allow defining the maximum elements to show in a TreeMap, allowing to group all other elements in one square "Others". It would then act as a "Top X" chart and include a "Others" element to visualize the Top X weight in the whole set.

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