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Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

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Riccardo Muti on 13 Nov 2014 09:59:48

I have a report page with multiple charts and visualizations. Let's say one of the chart shows Sales by Year and I drill down into 2013 to see the sales by month in 2013. Currently, the drill-down has no effect on the other charts and visualizations on the page; they still show data for all years, not just for 2013. Instead, I'd like other charts to drill down into 2013 or filter by 2013 as well.

Administrator on 12 Dec 2017 13:20:43

Well this is exciting! We've just shipped the December release of Power BI Desktop, and I'm very pleased to say we've added the ability to apply filters from a visual when you drill into it. This is now the default for any new visuals; you can turn it on for existing visuals (or disable it if you don't want it) through the Format tab. Look for "Drilling filters other visuals". Hope you like it! thanks!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:40

RE: Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

By when this feature would be available?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:10

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PLEASE escalate this. This a make-or-break for us.

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Dave on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:10

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This one is pretty big on my CEOs "need to be able to..." radar. I can't deliver at current. Drill in one widget needs to filter the other widgets.

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blue on 05 Jul 2020 22:43:33

RE: Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

a must needed

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:40

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Can't wait to see it working :)

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:35

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A much needed feature

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:02

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One of the biggest gaps for us too, would be awesome to see this done.

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James on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:00

RE: Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

Edit interactions can help to some degree with the cross-filtering actions for several visualizations, but the visualizations often reset each other if there are too many interactions. We often find ourselves reduced to introducing filter/slicer visualizations that take up valuable real estate on the page.

Perhaps it would help to have something that would "preserve current filter context" (append filter rather than replace filter) when related charts are both set to filter their partner.

There might also need to be companion support for the filter pane to back out of some of the drill-down if the charts are set to append filters. As people drill down in some context, it can be helpful to drill up in others. But automatically drilling up creates usability headaches.

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Omaer.Khan on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:34

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This is absolutely critical - it seems crazy to me that this isn't the default behaviour...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:28

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It is very important, kindly support in this development