How to apply a filter to multiple columns

[Jpmelv]

I pretty new to Power BI and i have been trying to create a filter to show me which countries the names have been to but what happens is it only applies to the column "Country 1"

Name	Country 1	Country 2	Country 3
Jake	UK	PH	SG
Patrick	HK	SG	US
John	US	HK	UK

So what happens is if i filter UK it will give me 

Name	Country 1	Country 2	Country 3
Jake	UK	PH	SG

but what i need instead is 

Jake	UK	PH	SG
John	US	HK	UK

since John has been to UK also. The country column is currently 7 columns but it can be a lot more so applying filters to each column wouldnt be ok. Would appreciate any suggestion or reference material i can review for this.

[v-easonf-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Jpmelv 

You can create a new measure and apply it to visual filter pane:

filter1 = 
VAR a =
    IF (
        SELECTEDVALUE ( Table1[Country 1] )
            IN VALUES ( Country[Country Name] )
                || SELECTEDVALUE ( Table1[Country 2] )
                    IN VALUES ( Country[Country Name] )
                        || SELECTEDVALUE ( Table1[Country 3] ) IN VALUES ( Country[Country Name] ),
        1,
        0
    )
RETURN
    IF ( ISFILTERED ( Country[Country Name] ), a, 0 )

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason

[kmelloCFO]

Hi there, 

I have a similar situation and have attempted this solution but the filter does not produce the results in the original table to then filter by. The answer is always 0 no matter which value is selected.

Thanks

[ericcartman]

Did you ever figure out this problem? I am having the exact same issue right now

[parry2k]

@Jpmelv the best is to unpivot your data:

transform data -> select name column -> right click  -> Unpivot other columns

you will get two new column, attribute and value, rename these as you see fit

Close and apply

Create a matrix visual, put name column on rows, attribute on columns, and value on values, also use value as a slice, now if you select UK in the slicer, you will see both the rows in the matrix visual.

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[Jpmelv]

Hi Parry 2k! thank you so much for your feedback! it got a bit complicated with the solution that you gave since im using another visual other than the list. i need to study it more i guess. what i did was i concatinated everything into one column and added a text search visual so it will show me all rows with that data. thank you again!!