Create an advanced filter with more than 2 options

[Anonymous]

Hello,

the advanced filter allows to create a filter on an text attribute, specifing start by AAA or Start by BBB

but, what if i want 4 options? The PBI Interface doesn't allow to add conditions, so that in this case i would place start by AAA or start by BBB and then add other 2 options for or start by  CCC and or start by DDD

Regards

[Mouchra]

It is not working for me on the specific visual (bottom list), online version or desktop, but it works on the fiters for this page though.

How woudl I write the DAX for it for T-603, T-610, T-630 and T-640?

[jdbuchanan71]

Looks like it did change, yes.  No longer works for me either.

[LinLinB]

I tried a few things. I FINALLY got it to work. You have to drag the field you would like to filter by TWICE into the filter column. So the first instance stays unfiltered (being used by the viz directly in some way).

The second instance is the one you can modify for multiple Advanced Filtering and numerous cases. I hope this helps.

[LinLinB]

I can't get this to work - selecting 4 basic filter conditions and then swapping over to advanced filter - shows no filters are chosen in advanced. Did something change? I've tried a couple of different fields.  

[jdbuchanan71]

@smokeeater1996 

I just checked and it is still working for me.  This is something you do on PowerBI.com in the browser, not in PowerBI desktop. 

[ChrisMendoza · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous -

Oh that is interesting...

For me if I went directly to Advanced filtering I was only shown two criteria like what your're experiencing. However, if you start with Basic filtering and then select the values for your criteria and then select Advanced filtering those criteria show.

I didn't expect that. I figured you would have to write the logic in your DAX.

[mraka9]

Hello, is there a possibility to add more options, but not in this way? When it's done like this, all fields must be filled out before applying the advanced filter. This can be avoided by entering the same criteria in multiple options, but they cannot be left blank. Thank you in advance

[jonespossibly]

This is insane.

Why the hell would this not work in the way everyone in the known universe (except for the power BI UX designers) expects it to work?

What if i want to filter a table on a value that might not exist on the table currently, but could if the criteria was right?  It won't exist in the basic filter list.  But if the UI was written in some even mildly sensible way, I could enter it into the advanced filtering to filter it if and when it does occur.

its sh*t like this that makes me look more longingly towards other BI products on an almost daily basis recently

[kondado]

Hi everyone,

this thread was created in 2019, and here we are 4 years later in 2023 with the same situation.

The solution of @ChrisMendoza is obviously helpful, but to me, it just feels like a workaround. I expect better from a big company like Microsoft. It can't be that difficult to add a "+" (plus) button or something similar to add more options when using the Advanced filtering options, can it?!

[jdbuchanan71]

@kondado 

You can vote for the feature in the ideas area here.

https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=866ea64e-d078-47d0-8221-3db1a8209fbe

[kondado]

Hi @jdbuchanan71 , Thanks, just did.

[smokeeater1996]

This does not seem to work in the latest version any other options ?

[jdbuchanan71]

@ChrisMendoza 

I just stumbled across this behaviour and was going to post it but your reply covers it very well already.  

[ChrisMendoza]

@jdbuchanan71 - Guess it still 'works as intended' 🤷‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Hello @ChrisMendoza ,

you are right! 😄 

This is almost funny, because imagine you have a long list with 

AAAsometext1

AAAsometext2

AAAsometext3

...

AAAsometextn

You can select 4 choices as is AAAsometextX, and then, in the advanced filtering, change to contain and change the strings for AAA, BBB, CCC and DDD :D:D

Regards