The picture of the described case is available by the link on google.drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y3kDvtsWiI9uDiBOUbutEEdXkBi9PUsX, Looking at your image, it appears you have placed the Check Filtered measure onto your card. Note: Well return to this measure at the end of the article to see what other options we have here. I have a quick question, though. It just stays as is less than and doesnt allow me to change it. This measure is also pretty easy. I hope this helps everyone. I have successfully used this technique on donut charts without issue. early finish, a Visit duration and a Turnaround status) dont have an obvious relationship to the new visual. You could try sensing a filter on the fact column, I guess. Thanks. Not just a column? 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 matrix is currently showing all the data underneath the masking card and goes transparent once I select a value from a dropdown list. Hi Miguel, Check Filtered = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Products[Category]),Products[Category], ) = Clothing Bikes Returns True only when both Bikes and Clothing are selected. 3 gear, 6 gear) Im struggling to apply to my report: I used this solution to hide the navigation buttons on the home page of my report. Thanks. The approach still works in the current release of Power BI Desktop. Any suggestion to send the Message/Transparent card to the Back of the original visual. In the measure, you use IF ISFILTERED. I am trying to implement as you per your artice but here issue is getting error cannot convert value Monthly of type of text to type True/False, Check your measures. I cant think of any way to selectively show or hide one of the labels. Hi Julius, and i want to choose customer name from either customer table joined to sales or customer table joined to sales history. The second is a table showing Total Sales by Country & Region. c. Hide Sales = IF([ShowHide] = [Current User], [Total Sales]) You still need the [Check Filtered] measure to return a True/False response in order to work as expected. I was stuck at the same step and changing the type made it work! You can edit, delete, or clear this transient type of drillthrough filter. However if I add a slicer . I hope that will help. Write a measure to check if there is a filter on the desired column (type Boolean). My requirement is similar to this but I am unable to achieve the end result. Switch columns based on selection. Add a filter to a report in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn Thanks for the article. After this when I select button4table , the chart visual should change to table (the first visual table should remain table) Great Explanation! Check Filtered = ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]) || ISFILTERED(Register[Region]) This properly filters the table, but also reverse-filters graph A, which now *only* shows the bar I initially selected. Select a visualization to make it active. Then build a hierarchy slicer with Part Type, Part Number. I recommend breaking your visual apart, to confirm that each piece is working correctly independently, then you can put all of the pieces together and the solution should work. You need to have at least two values in the visual you are trying to hide (filter) with the Check Filtered. Matrix: The first measure that is needed is one that can return a True or False response based on the selection in our slicer. 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). If we want to do this, how would we set up the instructions card? 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. Hi, in my case I wanted to hide a table. I have almost a similar requirement. The trick then lies in having a box that can switch its background between a colour white or transparent. Hi Mugesh, If you publish the report to your My Workspace, you should see the correct behaviour. The last step is then to give the button a conditional action. It wasnt working when I used the syntax in your post: Measure =(SELECTEDVALUE(Table'[FY]=FY22) || (SELECTEDVALUE(Table'[FY]=FY23). As consequence, is always showing data (Check Filtered always == 1). Hi Yashoda, Then, I created a many-to-many relationship like this: Now I created a MAP visual based onTable_Orig and a TABLE visual based onTable_Copy. You may find this other article useful in giving you some ideas. The solution only works when the trigger column does not form part of hidden visual in any way. Hi Matt, is it possible to made same hiding technique to the below scenario 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. Start by selecting a visualization to make it active. I believe that is working. My trick: I just added ANY normal table field to the visual and then hided it, in my case it was a grid so I just hided it by reducing the with of the column to zero I like it. Resize the card so it is just big enough to cover the visible elements of the blank visual (top 2 rows of the Matrix). Do you know of a way to stop this from happening? Drill through will take you to a new report page. The table does, but it still works. @Stu I use that trick too. Hopefully, one day, there is a simple show/hide conditional option in visuals in the future; or better still a conditional switch to display two alternate visuals. As we can see, the request 20030 have 3 different legs, having one of them going to Turkey. Currently there are lots of areas that can do this (including a chart heading) but often it has not been discoverable. Thanks! If youre trying to Show/Hide a card or Gauge, then youll need to use the approach mentioned my response to Pam below. Report filter applies to all pages in the report. I followed all the steps above, do you think I had to add any more steps or lines of code to achieve this? I am having the same problem as Sergei. so when I select the value in the slicer, the message is gone and matrix is displayed but the header (which were hidden behind the card when value was not selected) part is still hidden. Thank you very much! Subscribe to the newsletter and you will receive an update whenever a new article is posted. I used that technique, and it is working, but I cannot interact with those visuals where a card is implemented on top. That just seems like a lot of overhead. Hope it helps anyone with same issue. Relationships in Power BI and Power Pivot, Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection. Then simply turn off the Category Label. I have tried your approach Matt. Might help with your problem aswell if you tried to scroll on your visual. Thx so much for sharing! The || is a logical OR, but gives you the flexibility to move beyond a binary condition. If this isnt set correctly, then the selection visuals wont impact the hidden line chart correctly. Another great article, however I want to be able to hide the entire (table) not Matrix based on the slicer. Segment. 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. I used fiscal month as slicer. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Now when you drill down (and up) in a visualization, the other visualizations on the report page change to reflect your current drilling selection. any help is appreciated thank you! exactly what I wanted to do (show a line graph only if a line selected in a matrix) The matrix does not show the slicer field. It was all going well until I got to the last step. What Visual are you using? My original issue was actually a slow-performing measure, so I was trying to limit the number of results the matrix had to display. Create a card to work as a mask for the visual. I couldnt get the nice trick to work with the table visualization either. There is no option in my Background formatting for the card. its returning 1 not True. SELECTEDVALUE will identify which condition is being met I have 7 different filters that I need to consider. I used the isFiltered on product name however i think the hide visual is not only hiding the message but everything in Table B. I would like it where i can select any data from the columns in table A and the data shows up in table B. also let me know is there any other alternative to face this issue. You need to place the measures as follows: example : I have one mesure Avg_order_value = Total sales / total orders. There is one level 1 option that needs a different matrix than all the others, so Id like to hide that options matrix if the level isnt selected hopefully this all makes sense! 2nd Slicer Title = If your visual is a Map, or waterfall chart, unfortunately there is not much that can be done. 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? Thanks. the Title. I want users to be forced to use the correct slicer depending on their Year Type selection. APPLIES TO: Please suggest me a workaround. would have been helpful if it did. Then the rest of your visual can be interacted with as shown in the Matrix example in the post. 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. Hi Aaron, Ill give it a go! I have 4 filters which I need to have selected for a visual to appear or become active. Unfortunately the Map wont disappear with the Check Filtered trick (even if you have a different column slicing on the map, you still have an empty map in view), so the only way to hide the map is to make the card completely cover the map, but if you do that you lose any interactivity with the Map. Power BI reports are highly interactive, If you select a column in a column chart other charts will be highlighted. 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. Message) Again, many thanks for the new ideas. The card then simply needs to be placed over the header row of the table. See my response to that. If so, this will Self-Satisfy the test, as a result, youll never get the Hide effect. Hi Abu, Thanks for this! Filters and highlighting in Power BI reports - Power BI In the Matrix used above, the card is just sitting over the Matrix Header Row, therefore you can select the values of the matrix. Good solution, but the problem with it is that the card retains foreground focus and the control underneath is basically inoperable: no hover, selection, cross-filtering, do we have any alternative option for this or I am missing something. Great thanks, I solved it as you say by overlaying two scattergrams with the same set axes and one which has an inactive relationship to the slicer. 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. Note: If you select the Part Type in the slicer then all of the part numbers for that type will be revealed. Table_Copy = Table_Orig. The mask covers the cards I want to hide, so this was very helpful. The interaction between [Hide Visual] and [CheckFiltered] can be tricky. Is there an easy way to keep the selections cascading? Hi Dawn, This concept is good and useful and works well. You would have to manually place them over the customer names however, and that would be an issue if the chart redraws. You cant use the CheckFiltered measure on a card because a card only displays a single value, and thus cant be filtered. Absolutely! 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 trick seems to be working slicers are used but not when a search bar is used. Thus, when the slicer is selected, the Matrix data is revealed, and the scroll bar will appear on the right, which can be interacted with as normal. Can you check to see if a specific value is selected and return 1, else 0? This is very ingenious. Once you have set the Format By bucket to Format by : Field Value, then you should be able to select the Make Transparent measure. Hi! Hi Abi, Moreover, if I change the values 0 and 1 in Check filtered, the matrix will be hidden forever without any reaction to check boxes. Hi Zack, I wanted to create a splash screen based on row level security. Hi Marcel, That sounds correct to me. I dont know of anyway to solve this particular problem. You cant compare the feature list of Qlikview (launched in 1994) with Power BI (launched in 2015) and say Qlik has had this for 10 years. Matt shares lots of free content on this website every week. b. ShowHide = Vote here https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b05ea746-910f-ec11-b76a-281878e6855d. A DrillThrough can just as easily be the source of the filter. 3 graphs are present in same page A TWIST on dynamically filtering visuals by a slicer in Power BI after this , when I select button3chart , the visual should come back to chart (but still the first visual should remain as table). Maybe you dont need to make them transparent. Using a numeric column in a calculation. The bolded icon is the one that is being applied. However, I think because it covers the bar chart area, I am losing the mouse over tool-tip information on the bars in the chart. I have included an example solution in this workbook. Thanks in advance. Microsoft is already working on further establishing expression based formatting across the breadth of Power BI, and currently allows one to change a number of settings ranging from the header in a chart to font colours, backgrounds and data colours. Longer answer is, it depends what youre trying to do. It will work with any valid DAX formula, including OR, Matt congratulation for this article, it is very nice and interesting it. Also, read my blog from this week here. Click on Conditional formatting, Select Format by as field value and then Based on field and select the [Make Transparent] measure. Next we will create a measure that will display or hide a message to the user on the card. it is already possible to use expression based formatting to set the background colour of objects. I have checked, that the Hide visual -measure is formatted as Whole number. I followed all the steps and all the cards work just fine. Yes, you are right I found this too. Coming from the Qlikview world and having used that for the past 8 years, its amazing to me that simple SHOW/HIDE conditions are not available yet in PBI. I was using April 2019. Format Style = Field Value, and in the by option, selected the Colour measure. 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). To get this to work youll need two measures: Also I land on my Visual via a Drill through that brings that filter with it. appended customer 1 and customer 2 chart visual The largest, in-person gathering of Microsoft engineers and community in the world is happening April 30-May 5. Joined with the fact tables with respective dims above Read the section Filter the Matrix to Render Blank. This also helps others to find what they are looking for. -table visual [Matrix Measure with Check] := I hope they implement it soon. 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). The tree map is cross-filtering the line chart and the map. With Bookmarks you can control the visibility of individual visuals based on the click of a button. One caveat, due to the layering, its not possible to cross-filter using the visual when it is visible. Hi Raj, 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. make the unselected sub-groups more transparent than the selected one. Your email address will not be published. Thank you so much for this ! Hi Yogesh, This worked for me. Hi Veronica, Do you have any idea what might cause this? it doesnt seem to let me add any visual filters onto it, the drop down menus dont populate and I cant click in the boxes to enter text. If you are wanting a specific value from the slicer to reveal the hidden visual, then replace ISFILTERED() with SELECTEDVALUE(). Hi Shannon, Another way to accomplish this is to use visual level filters combined with dynamic titles. I have your applied steps going from table A to table B. my problem is that when something is selected on table A the message and the data in table B disappears. 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. So I hope and expect that at some stage we will be able to use a measure to make any visual visible or not. I am trying to select in the filter as 1. It is possible to use bookmarks to show and hide an object, but the user must click a specific button to do this. Hi Matt, . So the message would disappear if one selected the first slicer or if they just selected the second slicer? Hi Vaishnavi, Hope this helps. Thanks for sharing your solution. Open the Visualizations and Filters pane and the Fields pane, if they're not already open. If either slicer is triggered, I want the table to appear Any ideas how I could go about that? level 1 four options (i.e. ). Checked Total Sales goes onto the Values of the gauge. The problem is that transparent visual is over matrix table, and thats why user cant click on matrix table. By default, visualizations on a report page cross-filter and cross-highlight the other visualizations on the page. 2. i.e. Same issue. Looks great. My guess is that you have cross filtering set to highlight. Importantly, the order of the visuals (front to back) needs to be: And here is the final result of this tutorial about showing or hiding a power bi visual based on selection. I have a Matrix that filters on the state selected on a visual map. Unsure if this impacts things. If it is not text, it will not work. You should be able to set most visuals up this way, but there are a few that wont work unless you fully cover the visual (see my Final Thoughts above). c. Format the chart X-axis and Y-axis title text colour with [Hide Labels]. Would you know why it is not getting applied the filter in visualization filters? Have I done something wrong? The default type is number and does could be the issue, thank you so much! Great tutorial. well explained and worked perfectly done in 10min Do you have any idea how to fix this? i.e. Hi, I created all the measures as per the instructions here. I had a master table and a child table and I wanted to show no data on the child table unless I click on a row in the master table. Keep an eye out for the buttons. @JarroVGIT, you're a life saver! Simple and very helpful walk-through, I was able to follow it step by step and replicate the function. I had tried some work arounds with filtering on a related dim table as you mentioned, but ran into even more performance issues. The process is the same in the Power BI service Editing view. Subscribe to the newsletter and you will receive an update whenever a new article is posted. Well, that should work. Thanks. Check out this how-to video if youre still having trouble. Then you can interact with it. How visuals cross-filter each other in a Power BI report 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. IF( I am a bit stumped on how to use the SELECTVALUE alternative and then set up the Message card. My approach checks for a filter on the column. when I created a measure to find out if the slicer is selected like isfiltered and when we put this in visual level filter, it became unresponsive. Sales History joined with all the customer, item and date table. Interesting question. Dynamic Title to show Prior Month from Selected Value. 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. Cheers. If so, you could build the Check Filtered measure to react to the Part Type. PowerBIDesktop Message onto card fields So while you could use HASEONEVALUE as a solution, it would be easier to use SELECTEDVALUE. Thank you so much for the article! 1. 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?! I had same problem. adroll_language = "en_AU"; Power BI for the Business Analyst (with live Q&A), Dimensional Modeling (Excel and Power BI), 30 Reasons You Should Be Considering Power BI. Many thanks! Inside the matrix it seems to believe that something is selected, even when it is not. Make transparent onto card background, conditional formatting, field value table visual- Just double checking that you are placing the Check Filtered measure onto the Matrix and not the card. 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. The second type gets passed to the target, based on the page-level filters of the source page. Thank you for sharing this. Hi Aleksa, But just now, it came to mind and I had to test it out and it works! I am not able to add a screenshot but when you click on the measure at the top the measure tool ribbon appears my measure was automatically set to the data type decimal I then changed this to Text and it now works. Then I duplicated the table by creating a calculated table like this: It is a one on one copy of the original table. Hi Jace, Hi Jason, Is it because the category Country can not be the filtering/blank condition while being an axis of the chart ? 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. It helped me conditionally hide the line/column charts (by placing the message card over title of the original visual). 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. This still works in the May2021 version. button1chart button2table I am using this solution to mask a bar chart until a selection is made. It appears that placing the invisible card in front of my visuals prevents me from being able to hover over charts and view the tooltips for each visual. Select the visual to be hidden, open the Filters pane and place the [Hide Visual] measure onto the Filters on this visual, and set the Show items when the value: is 1. SelectedName = IF(ISFILTERED(Image[Employee]), SELECTEDVALUE(Image[Employee])) // only reveals an employee name if a selection is made Completely cover the map with your Message card, effectively hiding the map. 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. Be sure you are only putting the Message card over the top of the Table. In Power BI Desktop, select Format > Edit interactions. 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. They hold different years e.g. Our COO will be very happy. Visualization Tip: Change to Filter instead of highlight - RADACAD Really appreciate your work. remove category label 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. does the same work for a table visualisation ?I am using the text filter from the app store -and the check fiklter does not seem to work for this . What if it was a Matrix? Yes, it is definitely possible, but youll need to do some more work. Even if you can't edit a report, you can select a visual and filter it. The tree map is cross-filtering the line chart and the map. ) ISFILTERED(Customer)); 1 ; 0).