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Anonymous
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Apply JSON Filter not working

So I have been following the steps that were outlined here https://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-visuals/docs/concepts/filter-api/#basic-filter-api

 

I created a basic filter: 

 

 

let target: IFilterColumnTarget = {
            table: "DataTable",
            column: "Category1"
        };
let values = [ 123 ];
let filter: BasicFilter = new BasicFilter(target"NotIn"
this.visualHost.applyJsonFilter(filter"general""filter"FilterAction.merge);
 
 
in my capabilities, I have added as specified:
 
 
"general": {
            "displayName""General",
            "displayNameKey""formattingGeneral",
            "properties": {
                "filter": {
                    "type": {
                        "filter"true
                    }
                }
            }
        }   
 
 
I know that my json filter is being applied. But for some reason the dataview that I receive doesn't change at all. Can anyone help?
 
 
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Anonymous
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Yep, I've realised now thanks. 

 

It turns out the answer was simply to use

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "selfFilter", FilterAction.merge);

 

instead of 

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "Filter", FilterAction.merge);

 

This will filter the visual and not all the other visuals. 

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jppp
MVP

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

this.visualHost.applyJsonFilter() pushes the filter back to Power BI so that all other visuals on the page are filtered by the content of the filter. It doesn't filter the data that the visual is getting; slicer are using the same technique.

 

-JP

Anonymous
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Yep, I've realised now thanks. 

 

It turns out the answer was simply to use

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "selfFilter", FilterAction.merge);

 

instead of 

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "Filter", FilterAction.merge);

 

This will filter the visual and not all the other visuals. 

Hey @Anonymous ,

 

I'm trying to achieve exactly the behaviour and have my custom visual filter itself. I can't get your solution to work, did you do any other changes regarding for example the capabilities?

 

regards,

lucmax

Anonymous
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Hey lucmax,

 

So you need to add selfFilter to your general capabilities too. Like this. So instead of filter, replace with selfFilter.  There is no documentation for this, so it was a lot of trial and error. 

 

"selfFilter": {
               "type": {
                  "filter": {
                     "selfFilter"true
                  }
               }
            }

Thank you @Anonymous! That helped a lot. I tried changing them, but didn't do it with the double "selfFilter" key.

Anonymous
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Hello.

 

Can you please share your current repository project?

 

Right now I'm facing an issue with FilterAction.merge

host.applyJsonFilter(models.AdvancedFilter, "general", "selfFilter", FilterAction.merge);
 
Cannot find name 'FilterAction'.
 
Thank You.

@Anonymous wrote:

Yep, I've realised now thanks. 

 

It turns out the answer was simply to use

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "selfFilter", FilterAction.merge);

 

instead of 

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "Filter", FilterAction.merge);

 

This will filter the visual and not all the other visuals. 



@Anonymous wrote:

Yep, I've realised now thanks. 

 

It turns out the answer was simply to use

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "selfFilter", FilterAction.merge);

 

instead of 

 

visualhost.applyJsonFilter(advancedFilter, "general", "Filter", FilterAction.merge);

 

This will filter the visual and not all the other visuals. 




Anonymous
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You need to add this to the top to import FilterAction

 

import FilterAction = powerbi.FilterAction;
 

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