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Cross Drill / Quick Explore Visuals and Tables

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Dan English on 02 Dec 2016 00:39:38

The existing drill down functionality that is available in charts / visuals has to be predefined. I would like the ability to allow users to choose their own drill down path using cross drill / quick explore / dice capabilities that we have in other tools such as Excel. If you right click on an item in a table or chart you are provided with a list of the tables to choose from and then you can select attributes within those tables to drill down / across. Restricting users to a predefined or custom drill down is too limiting.

The feature was added in Excel 2013 and is also supported in Excel Services as well - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Drill-into-PivotTable-data-c1b11240-fc8f-4fdd-a697-629bf6f7ee0b.

This feature is also available in other tools like ProClarity, PerformancePoint, Pyramid Analytics (BI Office). Enable the users to perform their own analysis based on the model (data set) relationships.

Administrator on 16 Aug 2020 02:15:36

Hello Dan, After the Feb Semester we will be looking at enhancing the entire Pivot Table metaphors/experience Chuck

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Abdul Kader on 16 Aug 2020 04:16:30

RE: Cross Drill / Quick Explore Visuals and Tables

any work arounds available?

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Dan English on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:40

RE: Cross Drill / Quick Explore Visuals and Tables

Any updates or feedback on this? Would really like the built-in drill down functionality like we have in Excel and other tools like we used to have in PerformancePoint and ProClarity. We are watching a demo of ThoughtSpot and they provide this functionality... Can't believe it isn't available yet in Power BI.

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David Daniele on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:42

RE: Cross Drill / Quick Explore Visuals and Tables

This has been under review now for almost 3 years. Is there any update on this issue?

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Alex Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 03:55:18

RE: Cross Drill / Quick Explore Visuals and Tables

For your reference an overview of how it is done in Qlik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNoyL6fZxo