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Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

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Riccardo Muti on 13 Nov 2014 09:59:48

I have a report page with multiple charts and visualizations. Let's say one of the chart shows Sales by Year and I drill down into 2013 to see the sales by month in 2013. Currently, the drill-down has no effect on the other charts and visualizations on the page; they still show data for all years, not just for 2013. Instead, I'd like other charts to drill down into 2013 or filter by 2013 as well.

Administrator on 12 Dec 2017 13:20:43

Well this is exciting! We've just shipped the December release of Power BI Desktop, and I'm very pleased to say we've added the ability to apply filters from a visual when you drill into it. This is now the default for any new visuals; you can turn it on for existing visuals (or disable it if you don't want it) through the Format tab. Look for "Drilling filters other visuals". Hope you like it! thanks!

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02e85332 84b2-471e-8652-542d497405c4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:45

RE: Drill-down should drill or cross-filter other visualizations on the page

This also needs some feedback to the user of what has been drilled/selected...

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1f6a0fce b0ae-46c0-9c06-949b8130dafe on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:34

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Any luck with this feature... It is very important.. and its been two year already :(

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89b671bf f4c7-4212-a79c-b26b774ab212 on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:34

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'When using a report with a primary visual and several related visuals, the ability to show data in multiple ways would be very useful. For example:

- Visuals with a common axis could be drilled-down simultaneously
- Visuals for representing data could be adjusted to match the data currently on display, rather than data previously displayed

This would be possible by having the drill-down add a page-level filter in addition to the visual-level one.

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da741340 f868-4c93-b907-f9b1eb13d345 on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:15

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At least give the option to filter to other charts.

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68d52e69 f8e3-44ff-bf9e-51c139419187 on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:58

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Please fix this, it is really important and workable!.. Thanks,

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431581a6 37a5-4ca4-bafe-46baf59d7e7a on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:45

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Please fix this issue. Right we are not able to use the drill down because the other visuals are on the page are not filtering. Many thanks !

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d9ae4ecd e25d-44c9-a187-5da24d57d20c on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:36

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This is really a MUST in PowerBI. In fact PowerView in Excel allows this type of interactions.

I wonder, why being PowerBI its replacement, this hasn't been considered?

Just to place an example from a real situation I had to face with PowerBI. In a sales report, where a bar graph shows the sales per commercial, another two graphs are created to go with, showing the sales per country and sales per category. The expected behaviour should be when you drill drown in a certain commercial to see, for instance, their products sold, the other two graphs should be updated showing the sales per country and sales per category just for that commercial guy.
Of course two visualization are needed, this is updating and not updating graphs, but it should be something to configure by using "interactions tool".

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de553bb2 82ec-45a6-8a5a-4a533a01f66d on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:32

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Need this. ASAP

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3bb56540 9803-43cd-b0ed-4b85faf2661f on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:29

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Please have a read at this http://sqljason.com/2015/09/my-thoughts-on-cross-filtering-in-power.html . This is exactly what end user wants and please make it a priority.

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3bb56540 9803-43cd-b0ed-4b85faf2661f on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:16

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From end user perspective this is a very important requirement, please push it first.