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Allow 'Edit Interactions' for Filters pane, or add new collapsable "Canvas" pane

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Jeffrey Weir on 14 Nov 2018 12:34:58

I like the new Filters pane, but I think you really want to think about allowing the same kind of "Edit Interactions" for fields in the Filters pane as you do for any other visual.

Here's why: I would dearly like to ditch slicers from a report in favour of the Filters pane in order to free up precious screen real-estate, but often slicers are set up so that they only filter *some* things and not others, whereas things in the Filters pane are global, as far as I can tell.

I was hoping that the filters pane was going to be a baked-in replacement for the kind of thing Matt Allington et al are doing at https://exceleratorbi.com.au/create-a-power-bi-slicer-panel/ and while I like Matt's approach, it still obscures the report when the slicers panel is visible. So having one that 'floats' like your Filters pane is great, but it truly will be twice as good if you treat the filters on it like visuals in their own right.


Even better, why not extend the awesome concept of the Filters pane so that it's a special part of the canvas where you can park anything you like, and have it collapse when not needed. Now THAT would be incredible.

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f66b7e42 1c77-4dfe-bcc5-c8ff88306631 on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:43

RE: Allow 'Edit Interactions' for Filters pane, or add new collapsable "Canvas" pane

No doubt about it - this new collapsible Filters pane is great and should be removing the need for space-wasting on-report Slicers. But it does need to use similar config to A) associate to individual Viz, and B) Sync like Slicers.

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bb5f31c9 52a8-4ad6-a10c-fecff4e105ee on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:27

RE: Allow 'Edit Interactions' for Filters pane, or add new collapsable "Canvas" pane

Love the idea of being able to throw slicers and buttons on the Filter Pane and hide it when not required. It would essentially become the 'Navigation Pane' for the report and free up space for the stuff that really matters.