Creating slicers for values in order to choose which value we want for each column

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I tried to look for a similar question but it's been quite difficult since I'm having trouble phrasing what I want (as the title shows).

I have a table that looks like this:

Person	Skill 1	Skill 2	Skill 3	Skill 4	Skill 5	Skill 6
Person 1	Beginner	Advanced	Beginner	Intermediate	Beginner	Beginner
Person 2	Advanced	Advanced	Intermediate	Intermediate	Advanced	Beginner
Person 3	Beginner	Advanced	Advanced	Intermediate	Advanced	Beginner
Person 4	Beginner	Intermediate	Intermediate	Beginner	Advanced	Advanced
Person 5	Intermediate	Beginner	Beginner	Beginner	Beginner	Advanced

I'd like to create 3 slicers (one for each skill level) that would have all the columns "Skill" as possible values. That way, I could filter on the rows based on the skill level of the chosen columns.

Basically, I would have:

- Slicer 1: Beginner

- Slicer 2: Intermediate

- Slicer 3: Advanced

Each slicer would have "Skill 1", "Skill 2", "Skill 3", "Skill 4", and "Skill 5" as possible values.

That way, if I select "Skill 1" on slicer Beginner, I would get the rows for Person 1, 3, and 4.

If I select "Skill 1" on slicer Beginner and "Skill 3" on slicer Advanced, I would get the row for Person 3.

If I select "Skill 2" and "Skill 3" on Intermediate and "Skill 5" on Advanced, I would get Person 4, an so on.

Thank you for your help!

[daxer-almighty]

As @pranit828 suggests you have to unpivot your data. Power BI works with tables that are easy to filter, which means they should be long but narrow as opposed to short and wide.

[pranit828]

HI @Anonymous 

I would unpivot all 6 Skill columns,

Then My table would look like as below

Here is the M query if it helps:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkgtKs7PUzBU0lFySk3PzMtLLQIyHVPKEvOSU1NQRT3zSlKLclNTMhNLUlFl4MxYHbiRRqjmIDHRzEHjYrMbyVhjnC7FbQMBI03wehO3r7HZjWSsKXFBhouJMDIWAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Person = _t, #"Skill 1" = _t, #"Skill 2" = _t, #"Skill 3" = _t, #"Skill 4" = _t, #"Skill 5" = _t, #"Skill 6" = _t]),
    #"Unpivoted Only Selected Columns" = Table.Unpivot(Source, {"Skill 1", "Skill 2", "Skill 3", "Skill 4", "Skill 5", "Skill 6"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Unpivoted Only Selected Columns",{{"Attribute", "Skill"}, {"Value", "Level"}})
in
    #"Renamed Columns"

Then I would create a slicer like.

And now when you project your person's name in the table, it will display only those who have the selection.

Also, you can have level on different slicers as you need.

[Anonymous]

Oh, it seems like I can only select one value at a time.

Is there a way to allow for multiple selection, such as "Skill 1" in the "Beginner" category and "Skill 2" in the "Advanced" one?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Thank you @pranit828, it works perfectly!

I am still new to power BI and I never realized that it was possible to use two columns in a slicer.

Thank you @daxer-almighty for your input, I'll keep that in mind for when I'm stuck 🙂