Daniel Davis on 13 Dec 2018 05:58:00
The new filters pane is GREAT! It 'almost' replaces the need for a slicer pane (done with a hacky approach with bookmarks).
One big limitation of the new filter pane is that we cannot rename column names or group filters together. If we could override column names in the filters pane and possibly group a series of filters into a sort of "Category" it would make using the new filter pane much more user friendly for Business Executives that don't want to guess.
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RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
If you have several filters as example as different colors of a Product you can't group filters itself. It would be much clearer for a normal "viewer" if you could ad groups for filters like you can ad at the field panel. It makes the whole filter pane look more clear. You also have a quick overview where you can find specific filters much faster than now.
RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
Voted. That's important ! Filters are so important that the developper needs a total control on the filter pane. The ideas about the filter pane will have no end.
Personaly, I would like to have a total control with the possibility to add the slicers I want including custom visuals. So I developped my own solution.
Please have a look at this one minute video and share your comments there :
https://thebipower.fr/index.php/2019/02/01/add-a-filter-page-to-your-report/
RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
Almost in all the reports, people (report users) want to see similar filters together and in many cases, position of filters (ordering) is also needed and unavailability of these small tweaks holds us back to use the new Filter Panel in many or almost all of the cases. With this simple yet useful enhancement, adoption of new Filter Panel will be increasing significantly. And, can improve the performance of the reports by N folds.
RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
In one of the recent updates you made the new filters avaliable, it would be very usefull if it was possible put each filter in a group folder that can be expanded and collapsed. This will make it a lot easier to have multiple filters avaliable for the users of the report
RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
Renaming the filters is very important. A must have for localization purposes.
RE: Allow renaming fields and grouping in New Filter Experience
For example, when I select filters from a whole population such as European & Asian, it would be great to have a feature that groups the unselected as something like 'Others' (or custom naming).
This would allow us to see how much from the whole population is in the selected comparatively.