1. Thanks million times! This is a hack and it has consequences including that you cant interact with the header. 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. Basically Im doing similar things as you : when I select a country the message disappears and graphs are visible. The data is being pulled from the same measure data table and measures, so Im not sure why it will work for the stacked bar and not for the gauge. Solved: Dynamic Title to show Prior Month from Selected Va Ive been trying to find a way to do this as well, the treemap approach is pretty brilliant. Im not sure what you mean by do the same thing in drill through. Then Change column header name ( double click on header name and enter new name), after that enter measure name row wise. Get familiar with how your visualizations interact by selecting each visualization on your report page, one at a time. However, I noticed in the Filters section for the card the Hide Visual is (All). Yes, this logic will solve your challenge also. Check Filtered = ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]) || ISFILTERED(Register[Region]) Hi Matt. Test Concat String = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Products[Category]),Products[Category], ) Hey Jason, I am trying to do the same in the latest Power BI version. Longer answer is, it depends what youre trying to do. Exactly what I was asking. Are you able to work with an additional column of data within your Territory table, say Territory[Region]? In my example, the card is just covering the top two rows of the visual, so that the matrix is still able to be interacted with once the visual is rendered. I have tried to use it, but I faced with the following problem. sorry I meant to write covering options with bookmark _buttons_. Microsoft is working on making every part of Power BI controllable using expression based formatting. @JarroVGIT, you're a life saver! Do you have any idea about this? Meaning the card is not being transparent to show hidden part when value is selected. This solution is simply show/hide what is beneath. 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? Check filtered onto matrix, filters on this visual. Dharanidhar. Any solution to this issue: Interesting question. Hi Brendan, However, the graph does not disappear when nothing is selected. Very nice trick. IF ( HASONEVALUE( Table'[ColumnName] ), VALUES( Table'[ColumnName] ), [AlternateResult] ) Great thanks, JSON . Really appreciate your work. If you build a matrix with fields from different tables, then try to cross-highlight by selecting multiple items at different levels of the hierarchy, you get errors on the other visuals. In the future I would expect that expression based formatting will solve the problem but as of today I dont know of a solution, You could take a different approach however. This solution worked great for me. if there is no relationship, then the filter will have no impact. [Check Filtered], a. They do not belong to other attributes. This works well, but can you recommend anything that would allow the user to be able to scroll up/down or drill down on the visualization that is shown after the selection? I was stuck in the same issue. Hi Raju, The || is a logical OR, but gives you the flexibility to move beyond a binary condition. The final requirement is to apply the [Make Transparent] measure to format the background colour of the masking Card. Its all great until I try to make the visual disappear. I just cant get the colour function to accept the measure I made according to your steps . Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. but I have one of the slicers which has the option select all and it must show the graph with all data Create a measure that is 1 if filtered, 0 if not. 6. For example, I was using it for a detailed grid, I only wanted to show information in this grid for the barcodes selected by the user. But the picture could not be over the table, as you cant show and hide the picture itself (currently). As the Message/Transparent card is in front of the original visual, it disable interacting with the original visual like showing Tooltip, clicking on the original visual etc. Selected Calendar = SELECTEDVALUE(YearType[Type]) Requirement : When I select a button only the specific visual has to change (this one I can do with bookmarks) But the final result video above is working fine. For some reason, my filters dont want to let me enter a value. Notice that all the other visualizations on the page now display interaction icons. If I understand your model correctly, you should be able to do this with a switch measure. Could you please let me know how to use with Matrix row selection (SelectedValue) instead of a Slicer? Would HASONEVALUE do the trick? Very informative and easy to understand. Take a look at my response to Jemma below. This was frustrating me for quite a few minutes until I realized what was going on. A great tip, thanks for it!! Any idea about the cause of this isssue and how to solve it ? That sounds correct to me. Really stumped here. Your guidance is very very helpful!! Jason, Excellent post. Can you please show me how would the formula be if I want to use the function of specific selection in a slice? Sales 2 joined with Sales lines 2 and Item 2 table. my bad I should use the hex code. You could use bookmarks to hide/show instead, but then it would not be sensitive to the slicer selection. Can you tell me what you mean by The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual. 2. FYI, same issue, greyed out as an option. Lets say I have two visuals I want to hide/appear based on selections. I suspect this is just a bug. Check Filtered = OR( ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]), ISFILTERED(Register[Region])) Message onto card fields Just make sure the card is only covering the Matrix header. Thanks for your thorough write up. Rows = Parts[Part Name] Is your Table slicing the data by the same column as your [Check Filtered] measure? One thing to note regarding optimization: the matrix is still calculating even though you cant see it. 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. Sales 1 joined with Sales lines 1 and Item 1 table. You should be able to drill through on the revealed visual, providing the Card is only covering the header. Hi Denny, 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? Now, when nothing is selected in your slicer, you will see your message. is there any solution for this issue? The matrix(table) has no react on the filter Check filtered, being included in Filters on this visual. This is awesome. would have been helpful if it did. Not ideal. i.e. It would be good if there were a way to make the cards disappear, but cards just dont seem to work like other visualizations. Create a relative date slicer or filter in Power BI - Power BI As I explained, each request can have multiple destinations, so when we interact with the map, only the line that have that specific destination appears on the table. Hi Jason, thanks for this tutorial really helpful. Screenshot attached for reference. You can format that page as you like, the filters will be passed to the new page, and hence the concept of testing for the existence of a filter should still work. In the Check Filtered measure, I had to test different columns of the master table ISFILTERED(MasterTable[FindTheRightColumnHere]) and all of a sudden it worked. I now have a slightly more complex challenge I have a slicer called Year Type which offers two types of calendar Financial Year and Planning Year. it is brilliant idea, however, it wont allow you to scroll from any matrix covered by the card. Never would have thought of using treemap as a controllable background without this article. What visual are you revealing? Did you ever figure this out? Navigation = IF([CheckMeasure] = 1, "Favourite Post", "") // Where does the button go. 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. IF( I have tested the behaviour in my Power BI Desktop (Dec 2022), and the Slicer eraser works as expected. I have successfully used this technique on donut charts without issue. As we can see, the request 20030 have 3 different legs, having one of them going to Turkey. Values = [Measure]. Using a numeric column in a calculation. It is only necessary if you desire to have a visual that can be clicked after the initial selection has been made. I think IE is up to version 11.7, so you probably cant even get support for this unless it is not working in the latest version. Hi Jason, I am experiencing the same issue here. I've searched for a way to do this and on this forum but without success. Hi Jason, Thanks for the tutorial, it was really helpful! I only want to display the three lines if the Temperature is selected. Note: It is essential that the data type of this measure is text. Can you Hide Show as a table option in Power Bi? Hi Matt, With regards to Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection, does it have to be a slicer and another visual or lets say can it be between two visuals (e.g. Format Style = Field Value, and in the by option, selected the Navigation measure. In query I duplicated the column and used it for the slicer so the data is not used in the filter and in the bar chart. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Yes, you are right I found this too. A DrillThrough can just as easily be the source of the filter. Next we will create a measure that will display or hide a message to the user on the card. You should investigate that. Ill give it a go! adroll_version = "2.0"; Hi Pam, can we give condition on power bi visual. 2) Check Filtered = The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual for this technique to work. The second table is showing all content though I have set the Hide visual measure in Filter pane. example : I have one mesure Avg_order_value = Total sales / total orders. It took me some time to discover that you need to set the data type of the measure to text, but now it works perfecty. by changing the type of the measurement it totally helped! do we have any alternative option for this or I am missing something. I think you may have to turn off the labels for customer and add a manual text box. I have a quick question, though. Keep sharing such articles. With the Matrix row selection, I am not able to achieve the same thing. Any ideas why would this be? After this when I select button4table , the chart visual should change to table (the first visual table should remain table) Yes, unfortunately the Gauge doesnt quite work with this solution. However, SELECTEDVALUE() is only appropriate if the specific selection is a single valid value. The measure must return a color code for this to work. That just seems like a lot of overhead. This seems to be catching a few people off guard at the moment. Of the top of my head, the and effect is caused by the relationships, so you would need disconnected slicer tables. If youre trying to Show/Hide a card or Gauge, then youll need to use the approach mentioned my response to Pam below. 3 gear, 6 gear) and done in 10 minutes thanks to you. HASONEVALUE(Security[User]), Thanks. To do this, click on the Card, then select format\Background and switch it on. Hi Pablo, See Filters and highlighting in Power BI reports. Great Explanation! Ive a requirement where specific chart/s in a page shall be available to the user based on user role. Thanks a lot of the help! 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. These changes are saved with the report, so you and your report consumers will have the same visual interaction experience. As [Check Filtered] is just looking for the specific filter to be applied, there is no requirement for that filter to be coming from a slicer. Please see the response to Marcoss question. Have to combine Sales 1 & Sales 2 and sales history and report on this. loved the video. Perhaps you could include another step in your instructions above showing how to change the Edit Interactions behaviour of the TreeMap from Crossfilter to Filter, so this cool trick can be used for other types of trigger visuals. It is a one on one copy of the original table. Your alternate solution sounds interesting to me, but doesnt really work since I need to be able to collapse other row fields with the [+] icon on the PN. Table_Copy = Table_Orig. This is awesome Matt! Thank you for verifying and for posting this blog! This is the 3rd iteration of this Power BI Visual Based on Selection article, attempting to address some of the confusion that has emerged since I added the [Check Filtered] measure into the mix in January 2020. They hold different years e.g. Hi Amulya, I wanted to create a splash screen based on row level security. Is it report server version maybe? Step-2: Now add one slicer visual into report page and . chart visual Inside the matrix it seems to believe that something is selected, even when it is not. Since that time, the article has become the most in-demand solution encountered on our website, and hence deserved a redeux. two tables)? The challenge of selectively showing report elements has plagued Power BI report developers for many years now, but there is no out of the box solution for this problem at this point in time. 1. So simple, clear and works just great! Please see the link in my reply to Jace. The magic really is in the 00 at the end of the color code. #FFFFFF00, returns transparent if Check Filtered is True any help is appreciated thank you! The same happens for the other 2 request as shown in the second picture, so the result I need is the table from the second picture showing not 3, but 9 lines (3 lines for each request id). Hello, your solution looks great! Hi Matt really enjoy your articles have your website on my regular to read list. This meant both my slicers were independent of each other and when either is used it displayed the relevant data on the table visual. Clicking a value on a scatter plot wont do that. great tutorial for hidding a visual, pretty easy to follow. Selecting a slicer value will filter all other visuals in the report. It wont let me put a measure in the conditional formatting of the background of the card Open the Visualizations and Filters pane and the Fields pane, if they're not already open. Microsoft has announced that it will continue to build out expression based formatting across the product. I am expecting more expression based formatting to come to Power BI in the future, so hopefully at some stage this will be a feature rather than a hack. If you are wanting a specific value from the slicer to reveal the hidden visual, then replace ISFILTERED() with SELECTEDVALUE(). 2. The ISFILTERED function only allows you to have one column. It will work with any valid DAX formula, including OR, Matt congratulation for this article, it is very nice and interesting it. It is on one of the menus visible when you select the matrix. 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. Good tutorial thank you! Thanks again!! The table does, but it still works. 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). CheckMeasure = IF([SelectedName] = "Jason", 1, 0) // checks if Jason is selected Its just coming up as is less than and its frozen. You cant use the CheckFiltered measure on a card because a card only displays a single value, and thus cant be filtered. The matrix does not show the slicer field. The issue you are facing has to do with the fact your card is covering the entire visual, which you need to do if youre working with a Map or Waterfall, etc. Not just a column? The solution to solve this problem (when trying to Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection) involves: Create a card to work as a mask for the visual. I have shared this post with many . This works from an appearance standpoint but do you know why the show values measure filter on the visual (in my case a table) does not reset when you use the eraser to clear the filter on a slicer? 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. The only thing you wont be able to select as soon as the table becomes visible is the column headers. There is a bug I have seen in Desktop, where visuals dont update when elements on the report page change. If there are multiple places on a visual you want to cover with the card, you might be better off creating another card that just renders white or transparent based on the show hide. ). I am using May 2019 release of PowerBI. Hi Jason, I was able to replicate that in the secondary slicers as you shown. Yes you could use SWITCH(TRUE()), but that seems over kill unless you need more than 2 outputs, Hi Matt. So the message would disappear if one selected the first slicer or if they just selected the second slicer? Hi Jason! Here's my pbix file:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f-nUq5Sj-Xh9l32TThmL0Pf4cVEehmMG. Yes, this would be another approach. Can you please share a video of this steps ? Now I can interact with the visuals again. Select FY22 or FY23 from the slicer to see the results for that year, Thank you for this. I am not quite sure what you are asking. From the menu bar, select Format, select the drop-down caret under Apply drill down filters to, and select Entire page. The tree map is cross-filtering the line chart and the map. how can I achieve this ? Hi Mabel, If this isnt set correctly, then the selection visuals wont impact the hidden line chart correctly. i.e. If the behavior you see isn't what you want, you can change the interactions, as described previously. When trying to select the measure as field value > Hi Rajib, Hi Rich, Thanks. For example, selecting a state on a map visualization highlights the column chart and filters the line chart to display only data that applies to that one state. The measure need to be set to type Text for it to allow you to select it. Check Colour goes onto the conditional formatting of the data labels and Callout value. For the Check Filter measure I have =(SELECTEDVALUE(Table'[FY],FY22||FY23)). Power BI wants you to use a Column (Field) to drive the color code. Microsoft has already announced it is extending expression based formatting everywhere, and it will come. I searched in the Microsoft Power BI visual marketplace but didn't find it . Like Qlik has had for 12+ years. This still works in the May2021 version. Hi Rita, Thank you. if you have got the results. Correct. Click on Conditional formatting, Select Format by as field value and then select the measure. I cant select any measure there You can't use a measure directly in a slicer, so here's a way to get a similar exper. 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?! @marlonip, the funniest thing happened. Sadly, no. Hi Yogesh, Hi Mriganka, I guess yo could add 7 text boxes manually, and conditionally for at each of them to have the text transparent or black. Is that possible. Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection My scenario is a report Connected live to a Power BI dataset, where I cant create columns but can create a measure. To set up the formatting: 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. I mean in my case it may happen some time data will come some time it will not. If it is not text, it will not work. Quick edit to add if I set the filtering relationship so that graph B highlights graph A it does what I need it to on graph A, but still removes the selection and re-hides graph B. Hi Caitlin, You can then build your visual with the Part Number and it will remain hidden, only revealing the Part Number details once a selection is made in the slicer. 2nd Slicer Title = Where ever you can see the Fx button next to an item in the format pane, there you can use expression based formatting. Format by = Field value is there a way of using this method for 2 or more slicers returning visuals for selected slicer? When working with Maps, the world map will always render even when there is no data to display. Your insight of using Treemap as a controllable color shape was brilliant and an eye opener for me. its returning 1 not True. Team. It was all going well until I got to the last step. @Matt Allington, can you please guide me on how to use this technique on donut charts and bar chart? How do I make them transparent? Anything I can do as a workaround? Filters and highlighting in Power BI reports - Power BI If you would like me to take a quick look at your workbook, Id be happy to assist. Good instruction on how to hide/display visuals. In this article. As per my requirement, We have 10 visuals in one page( order by : 1 slicer, 5 tree maps, 2 tables , 1 bar chart and 1 line chart) all visuals needs to be appear only based on ealer filter.i tried but its not working as i expected bcz when i press 3rd visual and ot is filtering 4 visual but 3 visual became blank. Hi Joy, In other words, if there is a value selected in the slicer, make the colour transparent, otherwise make it white (the colour of the report background) so that it hides the matrix. I have just added a walkthough tutorial to assist with the implementation. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Measure = SELECTEDVALUE(Parts[Part Number]) Check filter = ISFILTERED(Table[shape]) || ISFILTERED(Table[colour]) || ISFILTERED(Table[category]) || ISFILTERED(Table[subcategory]) || ISFILTERED(Table2[column]) || ISFILTERED(Table3[column]) Returns True when any selection is made. I really like your solution, and thank you! I am using this solution to mask a bar chart until a selection is made. Simple and very helpful walk-through, I was able to follow it step by step and replicate the function. Managed to figure out with a different method and meant the Hide Visual measure wasnt needed as well. The card then simply needs to be placed over the header row of the table. Hi Aleksa and Jason, Colour = IF([CheckMeasure] = 1, "Black", "#FFFFFF00") // Which colour do we use Subscribe to the newsletter and you will receive an update whenever a new article is posted. 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. If the button is to be used to navigate between pages, then it is possible to use Expression Based Formatting to yield an effect very similar to hiding. The interaction between [Hide Visual] and [CheckFiltered] can be tricky. I couldnt able to play around with zoom in/out control since the card is on top of the map visual. Its like the visual should change independently. If anything on the slicer has been selected, then Show the visual. Then, I created a many-to-many relationship like this: Now I created a MAP visual based on Table_Orig and a TABLE visual based on Table_Copy. 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. There will always be such differences in such a case. The challenge you have here, is that you are trying to hide the entire chart until a selection is made. 3 graphs are present in same page Your email address will not be published. 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 . Visual 1 = on Visual 2 = off (or Visual 1 = off Visual 2 = on) .. Thats the way it works when rendering web pages (tables) . Power BI does not allow me to set the background conditional formatting (Field Value) to to Make Transparent. Dynamic Title to show Prior Month from Selected Value. But the problem is when I bookmark button4table , I dont know the above visual is in which state and that state should not change. 1. 0) If you publish the report to your My Workspace, you should see the correct behaviour. The issue is the Transparent card is still in front of the matrix until you start interacting with the matrix. Then you can interact with it. It is not easy, but it can be done as long as you make the selection for the hidden visual to be larger than the one that hides it. Do you have an updated explanation based on the latest Power BI verion (March 2022). Unfortunately it is not possible to use this logic to filter both the slicer and the visual by the same field.