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Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

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abhishek sreesaila on 04 Jan 2015 16:37:48

Ability to select multiple items in a chart say multiple bars, pie's etc and automatically have filters applied to all the existing reports. this helps to highlight anomalies and see all the surrounding reports changes as we do it and showcase risks/opportunities

Administrator on 09 Feb 2018 05:00:49

As of the February update, we now support cross-highlighting across multiple visuals! You can read the details in my blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-february-2018-feature-summary/#crosshighlight

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:35

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Visual Filtering is nice - but having the ability to filter columns by different criteria would be very very helpful and more user friendly. Example, in our business two of our top metrics are based on ticket statues, 'Closed' & 'Work complete', and the other metric is based off 'Closed' We have to create two visuals to filter these. Having this in one table or matrix - but being able to filter within the selected column would be powerful

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Stef on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:17

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

I must agree that this is a must item!

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LN on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:56

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Agree that this is a game changing feature, which need to be addressed at the highest priority. As there are a number of similar ideas in this forum, I believe the actual total votes for this feature is way over 1000

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LN on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:56

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

This is a another one talking about the same thing
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/10755336-multiple-cross-filter

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Ged on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:55

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Crucial!

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Gustaf on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:47

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Really, the lack of this basic functionality makes Power BI feel like a kids' version compared to Qlik and Tableau! Power BI got so many other fantastic features that made it a favorite within my organization, but the lack of this simple thing makes us holding back on rolling it out wide in organization.

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Michael Shparber on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:47

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Hello friends, this idea has been opened for a while and no progress...
Please also vote on this same idea:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19313530-click-on-several-visuals-to-slice
It has been gaining votes recently so maybe Microsoft will notice it...
Thanks

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Debbie on 05 Jul 2020 22:58:27

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

just ... YES. Multi-filtering across multiple tables is vital for us.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:05

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

I started to use Power BI and as Qlik user this was the first thing that I saw. We are not able also just to click in the chart and filter whatever you want. You need to go to filter tab.

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Daan Damhuis on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:54

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

This is the most requested feature from Power BI Users in the company.