Dynamic slicer based on drop down list

[Jeffery24]

Hi,

I am new to Power BI and was wondering if it is possible to create a dynamic slicer based a drop down menu.

Reason being is that I am running out of dashboard space when adding slicers.

The slicer selection in the options would determine the control for the main slicers.

 

I have done something similar with a dynamic measure but that was adding values to a graph.

Thanks in advance.

[v-jiascu-msft]

Hi @Jeffery24,

Yes, when we select options in one slicer the other one will be filtered if these two fields have connections. It seems what you need. What's the issue? Can you share a sample?

Best Regards,

Dale

[Jeffery24]

Hi Dale,

Thanks for reply.

I can't share the dashboard due to our companys data policy but will try to explain what I want to achieve.

I have 2 tables one main table containing freight movement data i.e. a container coming from China to Germany containing 5,000 pcs and 60 cubic metres etc. The table"SP Data" contains different headers e.g. POL (origin port) / POD (destination port) / Carrier (company who owns the container ships). The data file could contain from 500 to 5000 rows dependant on customer report

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Currently for each  header I have a slicer that lists all the aggregated POLs / PODs / Carriers. The customer has asked for more headers to be used as slicers to drill into the data. This is fine but eats up dashboard space/

My thoughts were to use a measure and a seperated static table called "Table"  listing the names POL / POD / Carrier under and "options" field.

Then use the switch option to change the slicer source dynamically.

The code is not expected to work but I wondered if there was a string equivalent of the below to allow the output the Table to be the source of "Slicer One" which could dynamically populate the slicer based on the users choice. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

 Slicer One =
IF(HASONEVALUE( 'Table'[Report][Option]),
 SWITCH(VALUES( 'Table'[Report][Option]),
 "POL", GROUPBY( 'SP DATA'[POL]),
 "POD", groupby( 'SP DATA'[POL]),
"Carrier", groupby( 'SP DATA'[Carrier])), "Missing")

[Stachu · Accepted solution]

Slicer wise I think you could achieve that with table grouping the 2 dimensions

Slicer One Options	Slicer One
Carrier	A
Carrier	B
Carrier	C
POL	China
POL	Pakistan
POL	Spain
POD	Australia
POD	NZ
POD	Rwanda

the issue is that most likely you will need to pass the filter from the slicer manually to the measures - unless you could pass the joins in a way to propagete filters to multiple columns

[Jeffery24]

Hi Stachu,

Thanks for the idea will give that a go.