Hi Jason, I am experiencing the same issue here. One thing to note regarding optimization: the matrix is still calculating even though you cant see it. The magic really is in the 00 at the end of the color code. In the modified [Check Filtered] measure below, each of these scenarios is available to experiment with, simply uncomment the logic to test. Thanks for the article. Matt has written a few articles in the past that toy with the ideas of changing visibility and text colour based on selection, and this article was first penned by his hand in April 2019, as he started to wonder if it was possible to make a power bi visual appear (or not) based on a selection from the user. Anything I can do as a workaround? The Show/Hide technique will enable you to hide the bubbles on the map, but unfortunately the Map visual always renders the picture of the world. You should use the order by parameter for concatenatex to ensure the values in the returned string are in the same order as the string youre testing it against. Visualization Tip: Change to Filter instead of highlight - RADACAD So, I have same question as Mohnish asked, is there any way to send the transparent message card to back of the original visual (slicer in this case). Do you have any thoughts? For customer presentations? https://exceleratorbi.com.au/items-not-selected-slicer/. HI, everything works great but I want to drill through to additional details from results and it seems to be covered by the card, did I do something wrong with layering or how can I get by this? If this answered your question, please mark it as the Solution. Hi matt, It really worked. For example, In my slicer i choose multiple entries, but in my table, I drill through the specific entry. I have a Matrix that filters on the state selected on a visual map. any idea why? Solution work great, but there is one issue: if i want to hide matrix table, and show only if filterred, matrix table is not clickable (stepped layuot) or cant export to excel. Thx so much for sharing! I like this trick, but ran into a quick issue when trying to incorporate my tooltips. I would like to keep graph A showing as a highlighted selection. When I use the method you suggested above with && its only visible if I select a filter for all 6 slicers. Thanks. I have sales 1, sales 2, customer1, customer 2, item1, item 2 , date, sales lines 1, sales line2, sales history table Great technique, thank you! Write a measure to display a user message on the card based on the user selection (type Text). Is this possible to hide/show Map visual. Drag that measure to filter pane and set to only show when measure=1. Hi Jason, Hi Jason thank you for this solution its just what I need in my report. Power BI adds filter and highlight icons to all of the other visualizations on the report page. Hey MattI just spent ages trying to replicate your trick to no avail, until I finally realised that I was trying to trigger it from a Table (not a Slicer) and the default behaviour was to crossfilter the Treemap rather than filter it. Hi Jueliette, Everything works fine foe me other than Im being able to see the measure name in the card as well. And I want that zoom in/out control in Map. The table does, but it still works. I have 7 different filters that I need to consider. Thanks a lot for this clear explanation. Hi Veronica, It helped me conditionally hide the line/column charts (by placing the message card over title of the original visual). The trick seems to be working slicers are used but not when a search bar is used. Check Colour = IF([Checked Total Sales] = BLANK(), #FFFFFF00,#605E5C). Switch columns based on selection | Power BI Exchange Hi , Hi Matt, Thanks for sharing wonderful trick..But there is a problem when we using more then 3 visuals.. It really bothers him to see a visualization that doesnt make sense unless its sliced. I am using this solution to mask a bar chart until a selection is made. Check Filtered = ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]) || ISFILTERED(Register[Region]) Hope this helps, but my cards are text cards that show the manager name, Dates, employee names and I want to make them hide until the user chose from the slicer a department name, How can I apply this technique to my text cards, Thank you i have found a way and it works. A TWIST on dynamically filtering visuals by a slicer in Power BI But as it turns out, you can change the transparency of a HEX colour like #FFFFFF by adding an optional additional 2 characters to the end (00 being 100% transparent). Could this work to highlight a sub-group in a scattergram? I wanted to control both items. I have a quick question, though. sorry I meant to write covering options with bookmark _buttons_. First youll need to detect which calendar you want: Unfortunately, this will not work, as Select All is the same thing as No Filter Applied, therefore the [CheckFiltered] will return False, and the therefore the visual will remain hidden. Thanks! Hi Matt, adroll_version = "2.0"; well explained and worked perfectly done in 10min Once you have set the Format By bucket to Format by : Field Value, then you should be able to select the Make Transparent measure. Dynamically change visual value based on slicer value selection - Power 6. I hope they implement it soon. I couldnt get the nice trick to work with the table visualization either. Then matrix 1 with Hide Visual = 1, matrix 2 with Hide Visual = 2 Hi John, Some reason the check filter is not working on the filter for the matrix, I am unable to put condition = 1 for check filter, powerbi is not responding on the filter pane. Hope you can help! I have visual where I want the table to say 'Current Month vs Last Month' with the month names changing dynamically based on slicer value. a. However, SELECTEDVALUE() is only appropriate if the specific selection is a single valid value. However I need to use filters instead of slicers to filter things out as slicers makes report so much slow when using with comparitively huge data. My requirement is similar to this but I am unable to achieve the end result. What if we use SELECTEDVALUE, what is the difference? If you place something onto the rows, then the Check Filtered measure will work. remove category label (Referring to this: Thats just one thought. Even if you can't edit a report, you can select a visual and filter it. To help you guys understand what I'm trying to accomplish, here's an example from my dash: Suppose I want to see who travelled to Turkey, so I click on the point on the map. It works OK for my purposes without making the underlying viz disappear. when user select Week in SLICER then display only1.Bar chart and 2&3 graph should hide Waiting for your reply, Change how visuals interact in a report - Power BI In this case, user experience will be changed as they will be required now to clear selection each time before another search. Im having the same issue. Filter all items based on a selection on a visual, Nothing selected, the Table shows everything, Germany selected, table only shows RequestID=1, https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ancq8HFZYL_aiIgd8_NWbpeOz2QvWw?e=SdfUgB, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f-nUq5Sj-Xh9l32TThmL0Pf4cVEehmMG, How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly. That sounds correct to me. You will need to set your Table up like the Matrix described in the article, with the CheckFiltered measure attached as a filter on this visual, and the Message measure to the card. 0) In order for the Conacenatex formula to work the desired selected values must be listed in the same order they will appear in the concatenated text string when the values are selected in the slicer. You could also look at fields that can be conditionally formatted, and set their font colour to black or white depending on the show hide. There is no option in my Background formatting for the card. Awesome! Im currently having this issue. Power BI wants you to use a Column (Field) to drive the color code. I am sure Power BI will have a native hide function in the future as Microsoft continues to develop the product over the years ahead. Ideally, I would like to put the mask on the matrix header, and for my matrix to not show any results until i have selected a value. If the user selects a list of value from Segment slicer then bar graph should display Segment Target column, if the user selects combination of segment and team then bar graph should display Team Target column. It probably needs a numerical value. What Visual are you using? Thanks! So while you could use HASEONEVALUE as a solution, it would be easier to use SELECTEDVALUE. You need to have at least two values in the visual you are trying to hide (filter) with the Check Filtered. It is on one of the menus visible when you select the matrix. Keep sharing such articles. This option wont allow me to select the message measure. Just double checking that you are placing the Check Filtered measure onto the Matrix and not the card. So ISFILTERED is always going to be TRUE thus my slicer-selection card based on your article always shows "Multiple Selections". Current v Prior Month = SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Month Name Short])& " " &SELECTEDVALUE('Date'[Year])&" versus Prior Month". Using a numeric column in a calculation. Can you check to see if a specific value is selected and return 1, else 0? 3. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Best learning resource for DAX and Power BI. Hi! I dont know of any way around it using this method. The only point I cant get working is that me tables/graphs are not accessible when I see them. Any solution to this issue: Report filter applies to all pages in the report. APPLIES TO: Power BI Desktop Power BI service With the relative date slicer or relative date filter, you can apply time-based filters to any date column in your data model.For example, you can use the relative date slicer to show only sales data that's happened within the last 30 days (or month, calendar months, and so on). In Power BI Desktop, select a drillable visual to make it active. Matrix: Also I land on my Visual via a Drill through that brings that filter with it. Microsoft has announced that it will continue to build out expression based formatting across the product. I suspect the issue is that when you are selecting a value in Table A, [Hide Visual] is still returning 0, and hence Table B is remaining Empty. Jason, Excellent post. However, I got an issue when my Slicer is selected ALL, which I guess the CheckFilter could not tell its a selection so coded it to 0 (Display the wording You must select) Hi Ahmad, Im guessing that is the reason why the Show items when the value is dropdown box is not enabled. Just click on one of the other rows of your matrix before trying to click on row 2. Managed to figure out with a different method and meant the Hide Visual measure wasnt needed as well. The format of Hide Visual is Whole number. I came across your question last week and thought about it a bit back then but couldn't think of an approriate answer for you. In my experience, Check Filtered Measure has no influence and is not needed. Very useful. Drill through will take you to a new report page. The first measure that is needed is one that can return a True or False response based on the selection in our slicer. Hi Yashoda, I found that it seems to have a drawback, however, in that it cannot be used when you have the column which the slicer uses also in the rows section of the matrix. But the final result video above is working fine. Then put the hide measure on the slicers, and set the Financial Year slicer to is 1, and the Planning Year slicer to is 2. Hi Keertika, Click on Conditional formatting, Select Format by as field value and then select the measure. I cant select any measure there Very creative solution but the problem is that my table visual has a border on it so I have to cover the entire height of the table with the card which then results in no rows being able to be clicked on once the user makes a selection and the data in the table visual appears. Its all clever stuff.but the key thing I think when reading this (as someone who uses Power BI, Tableau and Business Objects) is why on earth is there not a native hide function in Power BI?! the Title. is Syntax Sugar for Great article, I am uunable to locate ellipses on the right-side of Color on card visual. Well Done! False positive filter selection, despite no selection on the slicer: . That just seems like a lot of overhead. The Card should be displaying the message. I am using direct query with Tabular for our Power BI reports and Microsoft does not allow you to add additional columns to the Power BI model (you can only add Measures). Dynamic Filter based on another Filter - Power BI If the Card is covering the entire table, you wont be able to interact with the contents of the table, including the scroll bar. For some reason, I couldnt change the drop down when I tried to add the Hide Visual to the filter so I solved the issue by combining the ISFILTERED measure and the Hide Visual measure into : Is SFDC ID Filtered = IF(ISFILTERED(Review Requests'[SFDC Opp ID]),1,0) so I thought Id share the solution in case anyone else is having it. The matrix(table) has no react on the filter Check filtered, being included in Filters on this visual. The button then becomes visible and has a defined action. Hi Paula, Does this solution still work in the most recent release? Make Transparent = Can you help me with this? I am not quite sure what you are asking. Is there a way of showing all the data if selected? it is brilliant idea, however, it wont allow you to scroll from any matrix covered by the card. Write a measure that returns either the background colour or transparent based on the user selection (type Text), and set that to conditionally format the background colour of the card. If youre using a visual like a Card or Gauge, then you cant slice your values on the visual. Hi, in my case I wanted to hide a table. Im trying to create a mock example . after this , when I select button3chart , the visual should come back to chart (but still the first visual should remain as table). Excellent point. Could you please share your sample pbix file if you don't have any Confidential Information.? Longer answer is, it depends what youre trying to do. Yes, it is definitely possible, but youll need to do some more work. Thank you for the help! I figured out what was going on. If you would like me to take a quick look at your workbook, Id be happy to assist. The value of the measure seems to re-evaluate but the table visualization does not refresh based on the changed measure when a user resets the filter using the eraser. Ug. Hi Abu, Thats a creative use of this concept. Nice adaptation Pete. One issue I am facing while doing this when I drag and drop the measure to the filter pane, the drop down is not working. https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b05ea746-910f-ec11-b76a-281878e6855d, response to Pam regarding the Gauge visual below, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/plotting-2-fields-on-the-legend-of-a-chart/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/items-not-selected-slicer/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/expression-based-formatting-in-dax/, https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzg2YWJlNTAtMDI0MC00OTVlLWE5YmEtMmJjMTY5YjIxNTU3IiwidCI6ImZmMTA1ZDRmLTAzOWYtNDQ0Zi1iZDZmLTBlZDFlMzVkYWVmNCIsImMiOjh9, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y3kDvtsWiI9uDiBOUbutEEdXkBi9PUsX, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/conditional-formatting-with-a-text-field-in-power-bi/. This is a hack and it has consequences including that you cant interact with the header. I know the subject may seem as somenthing obvious or irrelevant, but I'll try to clarify on the thread. This is exactly what i want to happen, but every time I go to add the check filtered measure into my visual, I am unable to edit the condition of the filter. It wont let me put a measure in the conditional formatting of the background of the card The matrix does not show the slicer field. Subscribe to the newsletter and you will receive an update whenever a new article is posted. Wonderful idea and smooth execution, thank you for sharing. Hello, I think I have a new version of PBI. Basically, the result of a visual was used as a filter for another visual. Hide Which Slicer = The first is a column/line chart showing Total Sales by Country and Region. 2. Yes, that is a problem. I am unable to drill through additional details from results as its covered by the card. But what if we want to select more than one value in the slicer. In this case, rather than using ISFILTERED(), the [Check Filtered] measure should be using a SELECTEDVALUE() test. Maybe you dont need to make them transparent. Hi Jason Thats fantastic! OR(ISFILTERED(Country); ISFILTERED(Customer)); ; SELECTEDVALUE(Products[Category]) = Bikes, If you want the visual to only appear if a set of specific values from the slicer are selected, then you will need to replace ISFILTERED() with a measure that yields a True/False response to a returned text string of the columns values. I fixed this by duplicating my column, I used one of them in the table, and the other in the slicer. SWITCH(TRUE(), Im using this on a stacked bar to unhide another visual but am coming up with a problem whereby some of the elements of the stacked bar (3 x time status e.g. Hi Dawn, The next thing needed is a measure that can make the visual you wish to Show/Hide (in this case a matrix) appear blank when there has been no selection made in the slicer. Hi Raju, My original issue was actually a slow-performing measure, so I was trying to limit the number of results the matrix had to display. i.e. I have tried this in my report and I downloaded your sample work book as well but noticed that your sample work book has same issue what I am facing. The only issue you have to manage here is that you cant put Matrix 1 over the top of Matrix 2, as the visual never really hides, it just becomes empty, so Matrix 1 will always be on top. In this article. Example: I want to be able to filter by Part Number, but I also want to display which Part Number each row of the matrix refers to. When trying to select the measure as field value > Hi Mohnish, I like it. Very Clever its too bad PowerBI doesnt simply have a conditional show option as an attribute of all visuals, instead of needing a kludge (clever as it is) like Qlik has had for over 10 years. I click on the first bar in graph A, which highlights that bar in graph A, hides my message card and makes a filtered bar graph B visible, while also filtering the table. However I would like to hide a button according to the return of a measurement, do you think it would be possible? I had originally shown this as a card however I realised this was a limitation and changed it to a matrix, however I have just one measure in this under values and nothing in rows/columns will this be the reason I cant add a filter? I have one level slicer, each level is within the previous: very much appreciate the effort you have taken to bring beginners like me along and I feel I can do it in principle. In Power BI Desktop, select the Report icon. Hi Matt, Despite the fact that this feature has been released in early phases of Power BI, there are Read more about Visualization Tip: Change to Filter instead of highlight . Hi Mark, This will make my reports so much more user-friendly. I have a question, what if the user wanted to utilise the select all filter option? For me the scenario is, If All selected in my slicer then I should see a Line chart showing Lines for each value of the slicer. Id like to only make the second visual appear when either the Y axis description (Sessions) or the Visit are selected. The problem is that transparent visual is over matrix table, and thats why user cant click on matrix table. Check Filtered = SELECTEDVALUE(Products[Category]) = Bikes What type of visual are you using? Thanks for getting back in touch that didnt work however I have worked out the solution. Your insight of using Treemap as a controllable color shape was brilliant and an eye opener for me. Great tutorial. Absolutely! the user has to see picture with message in the card and when he selects the filter it has to show the result, Currently you cannot control the visibility state of a picture. Once I put the card over slicer, then cant interact with drop-down visual. is there any solution for this issue? Any idea of how to use it for that? In the end, I reworked my measure (root cause FTW) and now everything is snappy enough to not require hiding the matrix at all. I have successfully used this technique on donut charts without issue. By default, when you drill a visualization, it has no impact on the other visualizations on the report page. Hi Matt really enjoy your articles have your website on my regular to read list. Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection Thanks for the tip. If you can edit a report, you can edit, delete, clear, hide, or lock this type of filter. Make transparent onto card background, conditional formatting, field value The second table is showing all content though I have set the Hide visual measure in Filter pane. Its just coming up as is less than and its frozen. Is this possible using Power BI ? Inside the matrix it seems to believe that something is selected, even when it is not. See my response to that. The challenge you have here, is that you are trying to hide the entire chart until a selection is made. HI Kirsten, As a result the [Hide Visual] measure doesnt have the same effect on this visual type as that demonstrated with the Matrix above. This only returns True if a selection is made on Bikes, and therefore the hidden visual will now only appear if Bikes is specifically selected in another visual. As a result, I decided to create a Walkthrough video to assist with the implementation of this strategy. Alternately, given that the visual you wish to hide is a Matrix, you could set up the matrix something like this: In my table data I have a column called Category where there is two items 1) Pump and 2) Reactor. Providing the Parts[Part Name] and the Parts[Part Number] columns are of the same granularity, then even when multiple Part Numbers are selected in the slicer, the Details matrix will render correctly. Ive managed all the steps however when I make my selection and the table is populated Im still seeing the Please make a selection message showing over the table? chart visual Select your card, then go to the Visualizations Pane, and select the Formatting Paintbrush. Hello, Im having an issue with the Check Filtered measure when I add this into Filters on this visual I cant interact with it at all? Great thanks, JSON . Hi, Instead of Slicer selection, I tired with Matrix row selection. Check Filtered = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Products[Category]),Products[Category], ) = Clothing Bikes Returns True only when both Bikes and Clothing are selected. MS is working on expression based formatting. it is already possible to use expression based formatting to set the background colour of objects. If you can send a link to the sample workbook, I will take a look. Completely cover the map with your Message card, effectively hiding the map. In order to render the Matrix blank, it is the matrix that needs to be filtered by the Check Filtered measure. For both Power BI Desktop and Power BI service, certain Power BI visualizations can be drilled. First determine if the button is visible. May be you have an idea what I can looking for. This helps greatly! You should be able to drill through on the revealed visual, providing the Card is only covering the header. Hi Mugesh, The hidden table will be fine, because cross filtering vs highlight filtering makes no difference to a table, but it does impact how columns are displayed, and thus we need the selection visuals to act as slicers and apply a filter across the page. In the case of the matrix being used in this example, this results in the matrix being rendered with just 2 rows visible. Then you can interact with it. Sadly, no. My question is, can we hide the Card browser visual after its click (like I want to hide the drop down visual after selecting one option from it and just see the table). Not ideal. If I understand your scenario correctly, then you will need to make separate measures for the separate show/hide conditions. Hi Eduardo, The Check Filtered Measure is only necessary if you want to have the visual appear blank prior to your selection. Setting defaults to cross filtering rather than highlighting made using graph A to hide/reveal graph B work correctly. )) To hide the Map, it will need to be completely covered by the masking Card, but this means that interactivity with the map will be lost. Keep an eye out for the buttons. So I adapted your approach: I made the background of the grid 100% transparent and then put the treemap background behind it that responded to the filters via DAX formula. [Check Filtered], Check Filtered returns True or False based on selection in slicer You have combined the [Check Filtered] and [Hide Visual] into one measure. I cant think of any way to selectively show or hide one of the labels. This article shows how to use visual interactions in Power BI Desktop. Meaning the card is not being transparent to show hidden part when value is selected. I have four buttons , 2 on top of each visual Is your Table slicing the data by the same column as your [Check Filtered] measure? It shouldnt matter which visual type you are using. [Matrix Measure with Check] := If you have edit permissions to a report, you can turn on the visual interaction controls and then customize how the visualizations on your report page filter and highlight each other. Very informative and easy to understand. Switch columns based on selection. Yes, unfortunately the Gauge doesnt quite work with this solution. Note : I have tried bookmarks and selection panes The solution to solve this problem (when trying to Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection) involves: Please note, this solution works well for most standard visuals, but the Waterfall chart, Scatter plot, and Map does not deliver the same effect due to the way these visuals are rendered. ) Where ever you can see the Fx button next to an item in the format pane, there you can use expression based formatting. This means there is no need to cover the entire matrix with the card layer, we can just cover over the top two rows, to achieve the same visual effect. Can the measures created be used for a card? So if I have 2 objects (tables) layered one on top of the other, I should be able to control the DISPLAY attribute easily. However, it is not working. This response solved 90% of the problem Im running into, and Im guessing the last 10% is an easy fix that Im just missing as a very new Power BI user. Nevrernind I was choosing the wrong visual to format, I mis-read , Im trying to use 2 slicers in an or situation. It is very helpful. Can we send the visual to Back/Backward using DAX? PowerBIDesktop It worked perfect for my report. If you get the DAX right, the rest should be straight forward. ). Is it just that you cant set that filter on a card? If I understand your issue correctly, then you just need to look at the paragraph at the end of the article A Few Final Thoughts. This will make the entire table appear to be hidden until you select an apropriate visual elsewhere on the report. I came up with two . The ISFILTERED function only allows you to have one column. For example, if I put [Total Sales] onto Values of a column chart, then [Hide Visual] is (All) and I cant adjust it, but if I put Territory[Country] onto Axis of a column chart, then I can set [Hide Visual] is 1. With regards to using it in RLS, please see my reply to Raj below. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. It first needs to test whether or not a selection has been made in the Product[Category] slicer, and alter the result based on this test. It depends what youre actually trying to achieve. I just cant get the colour function to accept the measure I made according to your steps . I want to show the water level in my reactors so I used a card, the problem is since In the same page i have two filters, Reactor and pump for pump. But can you help me acheive the same functionality if i click on a scatter plot instead of filtering? Really appreciate your work. Your guidance is very very helpful!! I can do any conditional formatting under the Data colors. But the picture could not be over the table, as you cant show and hide the picture itself (currently).
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