Dynamic Hierarchy

[Anonymous]

Hello Friends,

I have a requirement in one of my reports. Trying to convert from SSRS to the awesome Power BI reports.

I have a report which has different category 
1. Products
2. Country
3. Date

Is it possible to create a dynamic Hierarchy for these 3 categories.? i.e the user should be able to select each of the above three categories in no specific order and the resultset ( which is in a matrix visualization) should change accordingly. The resultset has sales data in case you guys were wondering on the summarized column. Sales fields are Gross Amt, Net Sales, Import Sales, Export Sales etc.

I tried to use bookmarks but apparently it does not change the level of the fields.

In traditional SSRS setup, we have to one report for each of the combination of hierarchy 

Product =>

• (Countries containing this product)
  • Date ranges of these country product combination

Let me know if you need further clarification.

Abhi

[MFelix]

Hi @Anonymous,

Can you please explain better waht you want to achieve? What do you mean by:

" i.e the user should be able to select each of the above three categories in no specific order and the resultset ( which is in a matrix visualization) should change accordingly."

The use of bookmarks can change the level of the fields but you need to setup everything in the correct way, on your explanation I'm not abble to understand your needs.

Please see this post regarding How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490 (courtesy of @Greg_Deckler)

Regards,

MFelix
 

[Anonymous]

Selection Hierarchy 2Selection Hierarchy 3Selection Hierarchy 1

Hello @MFelix

Attached is my exact requirement. I have created 3 sample pages: with different levels of Hierarchy / selection. I want to use bookmarks or something similiar in Power BI to give users the option to select which hierarchy they want to view the reports. I do not want to go in the "creating 3 report pages" route. Below is the link from where I downloaded sample data for Power BI ( for your reference).

Let me know if I was clear.

Abhi

Financial Sample for Power BI

[MFelix]

Hi @Anonymous,

I have been travelling work related.

I didn't forgot about this. I will answer soon sorry for the delay.

Regards,
MFelix

[Anonymous]

Hi @MFelix

Appreciate the update. 

[Anonymous]

@MFelix any help on this is much appreciated ?

[MFelix · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Sorry for the delay in seeing this but issues at work. 

Althoiugh I have seen some links to make the hierarchy slicer change they are based on values with the same table:

https://xxlbi.com/blog/dynamic-hierarchies-in-power-bi/

Believe that your options is to create 3 matrix visuals one with each hierarchy level order, then create a bookmar for each one and hiding the other two tables then just add buttons and link them to the bookmarks.

Check example attach.

Regards,

MFelix

[Anonymous]

@MFelix

That is just the exact solutions I was looking for. Thanks a ton. You are a true datanaut.

I will definitely consume this . 

[theDarkPrince]

Hi guys. I know I'm 2 years late to the party however . . I found this YouTube video by Parker from Bi Elite. The reason for mentioning it here is that this community post is always found in the top spot in Google's search results whenever someone searches for 'Dynamic hierarchies in Power BI'. I recently faced the obstacle @Anonymous did. So I followed the process mentioned in the video. Although there's a different kind of problem I'm facing . .

The functional hierarchy I have in my dataset has 3 levels. Now, ideally, I should only inlcude 2 chiclet slicers (I assume you have watched the video, it's quite informative) & Power BI should automatically show rows from 3rd level of hierarchy when I expand down to the last level. I does do that except when I have expanded ALL the levels, in the rows for last level (within the matrix visual), I get repeated data from most recent levels. How do I get rid off of those extra rows ? I'd also like to mention that if I insert another slicer for the 3rd (implied) level in hierarchy (whatever that may be), then the redundant rows do not appear.

P.S. : Apologies in advance if this sounds confusing but this is my first post in Power BI Community 😅 & I cannot post images or any sort of data due to confidentiality issue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯