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Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

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Peter Ivers on 04 Oct 2017 19:50:58

Make a drillthrough look for any slicers on the page with the same field and set them to the drillthough value.

Lets say your target is a page all about a widget with a widget slicer. An end user might slice widget A on that page. Later the user goes to another products page and sees widget B in the list, and drills through to the Widget B page. It will come up blank as the drillthrough filter is B, but the page is sliced to A, and there is no widget that is both A and B.

This is caused because the drillthrough filter and slicer are ANDed and the slicer may be set to a previous value by an end user, so zero rows are returned.


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d67a6744 af8f-475f-9654-0f9178bf467a on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:21

RE: Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

The Drillthrough should consider all the filter context applied on a visual, but it is ignoring the page/slicer context.
This should be solved as a bug.

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a92640e2 9aa9-4bbe-ac79-fd46e98c9402 on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:41

RE: Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

Agree this seems like a bug to me as well. Drillthrough filters in the filter pane should also reflect and be applied to any slicers.

Drillthrough Example: I drillthrough to "Yes" values on a field on a new page. That page includes a slicer for that field. The slicer should reflect "Yes", not "All".

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3ff28986 d36a-4cff-b890-4d734c0a761d on 05 Jul 2020 23:02:23

RE: Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

Really surprised this is considered by design - its a bug.
If a drill through page has a slicer on that page, then whether that slicer is in drill down mode or list mode the value of the slicer should be set to the value of the data being passed to it.

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5b65ff56 7082-4317-83d1-8109a3069ab4 on 05 Jul 2020 23:02:17

RE: Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

This is confusing. If there's one possible value in a dropdown slicer, then show that one value, instead of the very counter-intuitive 'ALL". This isn't hard.

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b42034ea 466d-4b0d-bc92-5de176fbf0f3 on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:34

RE: Drillthrough and slicer conflict resolution

I actually think this is a bug. Why would you want to drill through without applying the filters/selectors that are relevant to the item you are drilling from. It appears that only the native PBI filters are applied