The SELECTEDVALUE function simplifies the syntax required when you use a numeric column of an entity as a parameter in a calculation. 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. (each bar has a unique ID). Do you mind taking a look at my workbook. 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. Power BI wants you to use a Column (Field) to drive the color code. As you say, this isnt necessary for the invisible card to work. Thank you, Matt. SELECTEDVALUE will identify which condition is being met In the case of the matrix being used in this example, this results in the matrix being rendered with just 2 rows visible. I have shared this post with many . If so, you could build the Check Filtered measure to react to the Part Type. Wonderful idea and smooth execution, thank you for sharing. Keep an eye out for the buttons. Check Filtered = ISFILTERED(Register[ Grade / Job Title]) || ISFILTERED(Register[Region]) I wonder if you can help with this I have 6 filters and I only want the matrix to be visible if any combination of filters have been applied i.e, if a filter has been chosen from: This is no longer considered a selection, and my message card is again visible and graph B is hidden. It is very helpful for my project but when the mask card becomes transparent and matrix shows up, the 2nd row(field value) is not able to be clicked as it is covered by the card. Then when you select a value in your slicer, the Message card and the Message Blank cards will become transparent, so your Bar Chart will appear to have materialised based on the selection, and your bars will remain fully interactive, allowing you to mouse over for tool-tips, or click a bar for cross-filtering. In the measure, you use IF ISFILTERED. If the behavior you see isn't what you want, you can change the interactions, as described previously. 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. If Qlik added it 12 years ago, that would make it a feature added after 15 years of use. Read the section Filter the Visual to Render Blank. 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. SELECTEDVALUE( Table'[ColumnName] , [AlternateResult] Until there, it worked perfectly, but I started experiencing issues with the visual, it wont become transparent when there are two categories (Country & City) in the shared axis field, or only Country in the field for instance. 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. if possible can you mention required changes . 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. Turn off the Category Label in the format settings, and then test to see the message disappears when you make a selection in the slicer. Do you have any idea which works the same but with filters? Need experts advise on a requirement. Youll need to define the an appropriate role in Manage Roles The largest, in-person gathering of Microsoft engineers and community in the world is happening April 30-May 5. Best Regards,Community Support Team _ JoeyIf this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. PowerBIDesktop Select the Visual interactions dropdown menu and set Drilling filters other visuals to On. Hi! Really appreciate your work. the drop down is disabled for some visuals and enabled for others. However, I got an issue when my Slicer is selected ALL, which I guess the CheckFilter could not tell its a selection so coded it to 0 (Display the wording You must select) Its work only in Chrome browser not in Edge or IE.Is there nay specific reason? Ive a requirement where specific chart/s in a page shall be available to the user based on user role. Create a measure that is 1 if filtered, 0 if not. 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. Ive managed all the steps however when I make my selection and the table is populated Im still seeing the Please make a selection message showing over the table? Awesome! Thank you so much for this ! Then put the hide measure on the slicers, and set the Financial Year slicer to is 1, and the Planning Year slicer to is 2. This slicer will change the visuals to display either of the two calendar types, for example Planning Year holds future months and Financial Year does not. For the Check Filter measure I have =(SELECTEDVALUE(Table'[FY],FY22||FY23)). Another great article, however I want to be able to hide the entire (table) not Matrix based on the slicer. But after adding Hide Visual measure to my Filters on this visual, the drop down does not work. Is it possible to do the trick on two slicers with an OR function or similar? 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 a quick question, though. [Selected Calendar] = Financial Year, 1, it is brilliant idea, however, it wont allow you to scroll from any matrix covered by the card. let me know if you couldnt understand. is Syntax Sugar for Im trying to create a mock example . Hi Rich, Moreover, if I change the values 0 and 1 in Check filtered, the matrix will be hidden forever without any reaction to check boxes. I suspect the issue is that when you are selecting a value in Table A, [Hide Visual] is still returning 0, and hence Table B is remaining Empty. Thanks, it is already possible to use expression based formatting to set the background colour of objects. For example, the following measure calculates the quantity by dividing the existing Sales Amount measure by the Unit Price value of the selected product. Can you tell me what you mean by The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual. Hi Rajib, Can you Hide Show as a table option in Power Bi? Click the Format tab in the ribbon, and adjust the layer order of the Card so that it is brought to the front. I couldnt get the nice trick to work with the table visualization either. There will always be such differences in such a case. Longer answer is, it depends what youre trying to do. Do you think the same would be possible if one bar in a bar chart is selected. Are you referring to the new Search Bar in the Ribbon, or the search that can be added to a slicer? The approach still works in the current release of Power BI Desktop. Is that possible. I was wondering whats the reason to cover the title when one can easily see the visuals lol. This is fine, but some of the items in the matrix are like first and then it shows the first value no matter what. If you click elsewhere in the table though, this will bring the table to the front, and then you can click the column headers to sort. thank you for your hints. Note: Are you able to share an image of you model design, and your report page? (Referring to this: If I understand your request correctly, then the solution is simply to use SELECTEDVALUE() in place of ISFILTERED() If youre still having trouble, check out this how-to video if youre still having trouble. Have a blank map on your report, and then use the show/hide to render the data under your condition, allowing you to keep the data on the map selectable First determine if the button is visible. Would HASONEVALUE do the trick? Thank you. If so how ? You cant use this technique because of the invisible box will cover the slicer and hence you cant click the slicer even when the box is invisible. Is there a way to enable the scroll as well. HASONEVALUE(Security[User]), Select a data point or a bar or a shape and watch the impact on the other visualizations. Thanks! This only returns True if a selection is made on Bikes, and therefore the hidden visual will now only appear if Bikes is specifically selected in another visual. So one idea would be to set the background colour of the matrix to be read if it is not correctly configured. Power BI Desktop. Any tips? adroll_current_page = "other"; Based on field = Make Transparent. Love this article. I used one of the barcode columns to appear in the grid, and the second one in the slicer. For this to work, Territory[Region] would need to have the necessary data to allow a differentiation to the appropriate countries when the chart materialises from a Customer[Name] selection on the slicer. The filter on the slicer must be different to the filter on the visual for this technique to work. The data set is simply a table with our names and an image url. I have one challenge in our BI reporting. Any idea of how to use it for that? I can set up slicers to select either Occupation or Group, but I could also use for example, a Pie Chart of Total Sales by Territory[Group], or a Matrix with Customers[Occupation] on rows and Total Customers on values to the same effect. ISFILTERED( Products[Category] ) I believe that is working. If so, this will count as True for the [Check Filtered]. Hi David, Same issue. Lets say I have two visuals I want to hide/appear based on selections. All I get in the dropdown is Is less than, and I cant even select that or put a value in the box. . I wish to all a merry Christmas (a little late) and a happy and prosper new year. 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. I think this is essentially the same as what Sarah asked in the previous comment. Step-2: Now add one slicer visual into report page and . a. You can also use that measure within the dynamic title to have it display a message. How can I remove it? Currently there are lots of areas that can do this (including a chart heading) but often it has not been discoverable. Hi Tim, Format Style = Field Value, and in the by option, selected the Colour measure. Do you know of a way to stop this from happening? Microsoft is working on making every part of Power BI controllable using expression based formatting. Hi Matt. The only point I cant get working is that me tables/graphs are not accessible when I see them. Thank you Jason for responding. Unfortunately it is not possible to use this logic to filter both the slicer and the visual by the same field. Table A consists of a list i created and has 3 columns Unique Code, Product Name and Count, Table B returns Brand, Unique Code and Number. Hi Vaishnavi, Check Colour goes onto the conditional formatting of the data labels and Callout value. In Power BI Desktop, select Format > Edit interactions. Never would have thought of using treemap as a controllable background without 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. If so, this will Self-Satisfy the test, as a result, youll never get the Hide effect. category AND/OR subcategory AND/OR colour AND/OR shape. Thank you so much for the article! APPLIES TO: Power BI service for business users Power BI service for designers & developers Power BI Desktop Requires Pro or Premium license One of the great features of Power BI is the way all visuals on a report page are interconnected. Based on field = Make Transparent. Another approach would be to set the title of the chart to give a message instructing the user to select a value first, Cool and clever approach, but the transparent card gets in the way of interacting with the underlying visual. Excellent!! I believe that is working. This worked for me. What this does is if the PO number is filtered then it sets it as Y else as N. 5. thx so much!!!1. The solution only works when the trigger column does not form part of hidden visual in any way. exactly what I wanted to do (show a line graph only if a line selected in a matrix) The format of Hide Visual is Whole number. The mask covers the cards I want to hide, so this was very helpful. Set up your visual Be sure you are only putting the Message card over the top of the Table. Each request can have a single or several destinations for a single or several passengers. No idea how to make the . Nevrernind I was choosing the wrong visual to format, I mis-read , Im trying to use 2 slicers in an or situation. So if I have 2 objects (tables) layered one on top of the other, I should be able to control the DISPLAY attribute easily. -chart visual- Thank you for the reply. Are any of the fields in your [Check Filter] also being used on the visual? Well Done! Hi Jason, Thanks for the tutorial, it was really helpful! when user select Month in SLICER then display only1 2.Line Chart and 1&3 graphs should hide I like this trick, but ran into a quick issue when trying to incorporate my tooltips. The color formatting is not working as mentioned in my powerbi..i am unable to add measure in the formattingcan anyone help me, Hi Akhil, Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. It worked perfectly. Cheers. This option wont allow me to select the message measure. The benefit of relying on the Check Filtered solution is that the card doesnt need to cover the entire Matrix, you simply need to make the card large enough to cover the header. Ideally, I would like to put the mask on the matrix header, and for my matrix to not show any results until i have selected a value. By default, visualizations on a report page cross-filter and cross-highlight the other visualizations on the page. Hi Matt, Since that time, the article has become the most in-demand solution encountered on our website, and hence deserved a redeux. If anything on the slicer has been selected, then Show the visual. when i apply above measure on visual, Im unable to use filter. Thank you. In deed that was the issue. I hate to not understand the reason but it is working now. It just stays as is less than and doesnt allow me to change it. Hope this helps. 1. Power BI adds filter and highlight icons to all of the other visualizations on the report page. @JarroVGIT, you're a life saver! What he showed in the image is that if the filters is selected or not, it is showing data (not hiding the results of the matrix). I have 4 filters which I need to have selected for a visual to appear or become active. Here's my pbix file:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f-nUq5Sj-Xh9l32TThmL0Pf4cVEehmMG. if you have got the results. You may find this other article useful in giving you some ideas. So while #FFFFFF is white, #FFFFFF00 is 100% transparent (white). Make sure you have the Message card selected, then on the background settings, click the fx button. Then when the slicer is active and the card becomes transparent, it is possible to interact with the rest of the matrix and further cross-filter the report. As described in the article about conditional based text colours linked above, you can set the result of a measure as being any HEX colour you want using conditional colour formatting. I would like to keep graph A showing as a highlighted selection. It probably needs a numerical value. my bad I should use the hex code. I have also the similar issue like need to show error message when theres no selection of filters but when I am throwing the error on top of graphs , wont be able to hover over tooltip after selection of any filter. 6. Yep, seems like this no longer works for the current version cards no longer allow a measure in the filters for the visual. The scroll wheel didnt work when it was fully placed over the table but when I leave a bit of space on the right side it does work when the white space is gone. 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. Sales 2 joined with Sales lines 2 and Item 2 table. Can you help me with this? My requirement is similar to this but I am unable to achieve the end result. Alternatively, leave the world map fully visible, but alter the message, to explain that data will only be revealed once a selection is made. Do you have a parent category for your parts? The trick seems to be working slicers are used but not when a search bar is used. Before we can proceed with building our background switching card we need some measures. Hi Abi, 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. You would have to manually place them over the customer names however, and that would be an issue if the chart redraws. Now when you drill down (and up) in a visualization, the other visualizations on the report page change to reflect your current drilling selection. OR(ISFILTERED(Country); ISFILTERED(Customer)); ; Hi Jason, great content. Im having the same issue. level 2 max of two options ( i.e. 04-18-2023 02:09 PM. Hi Aaron, If this answered your question, please mark it as the Solution. For a scenario where it is necessary to have a specific combination of values from the one slicer selected before the visual can be revealed, ISFILTERED() is to broad and SELECTEDVALUE() is to narrow. [Matrix Measure with Check] := Interesting. Your formula logic looks okay. Do you have the same column of data being used on the Bar chart? Same issue for me. 1. OR(ISFILTERED(Country); The Card should be displaying the message. Great post to learn how to show or hide a visual in Power BI based on selection. When you refresh the data, the relative time period . Red). Nice blog, Brief information is provided regarding Show or Hide a Power BI Visual Based on Selection. Did you ever figure this out? Well, that should work. No kiddingthis has been a thing in Qlikview (the old tool of choice at my company) for over a decade. However, SELECTEDVALUE() is only appropriate if the specific selection is a single valid value. Switch columns based on selection. Hope it helps anyone with same issue, the drop down is disabled for some visuals and enabled for others. You have to explicitly set the Make Transparent measure Data type: Text. I click on the first bar in graph B. Please see the link in my reply to Jace. CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Products[Category]),Products[Category], ) = Clothing Bikes, The hidden visual now only appears when both Bikes and Clothing are selected in the slicer. Im having the same issue. 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. So ISFILTERED is always going to be TRUE thus my slicer-selection card based on your article always shows "Multiple Selections". hi jason do you know of a way to change the color of the initial state of the hiding card? then send me pbix file to [emailprotected].im also doing the same requirements. Thx, Yes, that is the issue. The terms cross-filter and cross-highlight distinguish the behavior described here from what happens when you use the Filters pane to filter visualizations. But can you help me acheive the same functionality if i click on a scatter plot instead of filtering? . I have multiples maps and when i select the bottoms of my slicer a i need the maps show and hide. If you click on the Message measure that is on the Filters on this visual of the card, you are not able to adjust its settings at all. I click on the first bar in graph A, which highlights that bar in graph A, hides my message card and makes a filtered bar graph B visible, while also filtering the table. Vote here https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b05ea746-910f-ec11-b76a-281878e6855d. There is no option in my Background formatting for the card. One issue I am facing while doing this when I drag and drop the measure to the filter pane, the drop down is not working. Note: It is essential that the data type of this measure is text. Hi Matt, Great Article, just one question does it work with live connection? Hi Pam, Sometimes however, it will be necessary to reveal the visual only if a specific selection has been made. When I use the method you suggested above with && its only visible if I select a filter for all 6 slicers. Do you have any idea about this? When I select Belgium in the MAP, I want to see everything of RequestID=2 in the TABLE. If I understand your issue correctly, then you just need to look at the paragraph at the end of the article A Few Final Thoughts. Hi Denny, I also found just now the solution in the comments below. Hi Sagar, This will need to include a list of all the users that should have access to the visibility of the visual SelectedName = IF(ISFILTERED(Image[Employee]), SELECTEDVALUE(Image[Employee])) // only reveals an employee name if a selection is made Can you please show me how would the formula be if I want to use the function of specific selection in a slice? 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. Thanks million times! If youre trying to Show/Hide a card or Gauge, then youll need to use the approach mentioned my response to Pam below. 1) Message = IF( i.e. Hi matt, It really worked. In my table data I have a column called Category where there is two items 1) Pump and 2) Reactor. A DrillThrough can just as easily be the source of the filter. Im currently having this issue. and i want to choose customer name from either customer table joined to sales or customer table joined to sales history. Format Style = Field Value, and in the by option, selected the Navigation measure. What am I doing wrong? But as it turns out, you can change the transparency of a HEX colour like #FFFFFF by adding an optional additional 2 characters to the end (00 being 100% transparent). However, I would have thought that Microsoft would have recognized that a visual (table or matrix)is a complete object in its own right. My scenario is a report Connected live to a Power BI dataset, where I cant create columns but can create a measure. I know the subject may seem as somenthing obvious or irrelevant, but I'll try to clarify on the thread. https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b05ea746-910f-ec11-b76a-281878e6855d, response to Pam regarding the Gauge visual below, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/plotting-2-fields-on-the-legend-of-a-chart/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/items-not-selected-slicer/, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/expression-based-formatting-in-dax/, https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzg2YWJlNTAtMDI0MC00OTVlLWE5YmEtMmJjMTY5YjIxNTU3IiwidCI6ImZmMTA1ZDRmLTAzOWYtNDQ0Zi1iZDZmLTBlZDFlMzVkYWVmNCIsImMiOjh9, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y3kDvtsWiI9uDiBOUbutEEdXkBi9PUsX, https://exceleratorbi.com.au/conditional-formatting-with-a-text-field-in-power-bi/. The closest you can get to the solution described above is to cover all but the title of the Map with the message card. I am trying to come up with a solution to hide a column from a group of users, I have set up OLS in tabular editor and it works it breaks the visual. I came across your question last week and thought about it a bit back then but couldn't think of an approriate answer for you. adroll_currency = "USD"; Very Clever its too bad PowerBI doesnt simply have a conditional show option as an attribute of all visuals, instead of needing a kludge (clever as it is) like Qlik has had for over 10 years. I am not sure how Eduardo was able to change the field to Text, as it should be Text when you write the measure anyway. Ive been trying to use a second slicer to show the table visual when clicked but have failed to make it work. The Message measure goes onto the card, and the card background is formatted with the Make Transparent measure. For example, In my slicer i choose multiple entries, but in my table, I drill through the specific entry. My slicer is FY and I have FY22 and FY23 as options. Yes, thats right. Is this possible? Basically, the result of a visual was used as a filter for another visual. Its just coming up as is less than and its frozen. 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 its bcame blank. I used this solution to hide the navigation buttons on the home page of my report. Dynamic Title to show Prior Month from Selected Value. I tried it and i was able to successfully hide a visual. A great tip, thanks for it!! With that I mean if a user would click on a bar, more details would appear (the treemap would become transparent) depending on the selection of the bar. It will be tough. After this when I select button4table , the chart visual should change to table (the first visual table should remain table) Hi Mason, This conditional formatting they are starting to roll out makes me feel like they are starting to get it and PBI is getting more and more Qlik like with every release. @marlonip, the funniest thing happened. Microsoft has announced that it will continue to build out expression based formatting across the product. Its like the visual should change independently. FYI, same issue, greyed out as an option. What if we use SELECTEDVALUE, what is the difference? 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 was stuck in the same issue. Id like to hide the whole visual, but I suppose I could create a measure for every single column Im putting in there, and just have it be blank if its filtered. In this article. 2. I am sure this will be one option in the future. When certain conditions are met, you could display the appropriate instruction by changing the transparency. If we want to do this, how would we set up the instructions card? i.e. https://exceleratorbi.com.au/items-not-selected-slicer/. 3 graphs are present in same page Simple and very helpful walk-through, I was able to follow it step by step and replicate the function. level 3 group max of two options (i.e. Then in the Icon settings, I selected the fx next to line colour. The CheckFiltered measure goes onto the chart/matrix you wish to hide. Im currently having this same issue. Nice adaptation Pete. If you place something onto the rows, then the Check Filtered measure will work. This video uses older versions of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. Thank you very much! Just make sure the card is only covering the Matrix header. Matrix: Another good idea would be to share a small example final. But it occurs to me you could use DAX to control what options are in the slicer for the user to select. Thanks a lot of the help! The only thing you wont be able to select as soon as the table becomes visible is the column headers. Hi Jason! sum(sales[extendedamount])>4000000,green, Now Im trying to hide that visual or have a message No access to this visual as a card for that same ROLE/group for a better user experience. Thanks a lot for this clear explanation. The solution to give you this effect, but still allow you to maintain interactivity with your bars, is to only hide the elements of the blank Bar Chart, prior to selection. Solution work great, but there is one issue: if i want to hide matrix table, and show only if filterred, matrix table is not clickable (stepped layuot) or cant export to excel.