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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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Aashish Jagdale on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:21

RE: Top N Filters

Can we have top / bottom N filter just above the visual in the report page for easy navigation for selection of Top / Bottom N filter. This feature is available in Tableau so that people migrating from Tableau to Power BI should have the same experience instead of selecting the visual and navigating to the right filter section for applying filter. Thanks in advance.

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John on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:42

RE: Top N Filters

It's a great feature, being able to do TOP N, with N hard coded. Would it be possible to make N dynamic? I'd like to select N in a slicer (e.g. 5 or 10 or 20). There is a workaround using DAX (and RANKX), but as a newbie I'm finding this painful. More details at Avi Singh's video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKfPS1yZfE0

Thanks

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John on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:40

RE: Top N Filters

I'd like to be able to filter TOP N dynamically, taking a value from a slicer. The TOP N filter seems to accept only a hard-coded value.

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John on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:40

RE: Top N Filters

I'd like to be able to add a measure (the selected value from my TOP N slicer) as the value (instead of a hard-coded number) in the TOP N filter.

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John on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:40

RE: Top N Filters

Avi Singh shows a workaround here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKfPS1yZfE0

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Calvin Francart on 06 Jul 2020 00:00:06

RE: Top N Filters

Top N and All other

Provide the ability to display 'everything else' on one row when using the Top N filter in a visualization. This is a standard reporting view for a lot of people in our company and we have to use workarounds to get it to display, but then it can't be filtered or drilled into without causing all sorts of messy displays.

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Kevin O'Brien on 05 Jul 2020 23:58:25

RE: Top N Filters

The Top N function is great but you need to add the ability to add "All Other" and Overall Total to capture the full way in which folks look at data. Even better would be to add automated but adjustable functionality so you could have Top N / Next X / Next Y / Next Z / All Other / Overall Total. Functionality needs to be sensitive to slicers and cross filtering as well as additional metrics in the table.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:30

RE: Top N Filters

Slicer that allows for top n e.g. 10, 50, 100 etc. and not at page filter.

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Jorge Gallas on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:24

RE: Top N Filters

Please add TOPN with rest in Others

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Aswanth Rajeev on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:43

RE: Top N Filters

Please add feature: 'Sort by value (ascending/descending)' in Visual level filters.

Currently, the 'Visual level filter' feature allows me to sort items by name only, and not by value.

Example to demonstrate: When I have my expense report, I would like to filter out my Top N items. Currently, these Top N items can be sorted only alphabetically. Whereas, I would like to have a feature where the Top N items can be sorted in either ascending or descending order of the "values" of the items.

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