Table filter resetting when table row selected.

[StuartSmith]

I have a report containing a map, table & card, with test data of...

name	age	sex	country
dave	23	Male	UK
stu	34	Male	France
mike	21	Male	UK
lee	54	Male	Germany
barry	76	Male	Spain
sid	18	Male

The map has the data of "Country" and when you select, say "UK", the table will only show "UK" record.  As expected.  Then when you select one of the filtered row, it displays the persons name, say "Mike" on the card.  All as expected, but when i select "Mike" on the table, istead of just leaving the "UK" rows showing, it resets the table and shows all the rows again.  Why and how can it keep it only showing the UK rows until the filter is cleared? Thanks.

[qformula]

Anyone found the solution? It is year 2022 (3+years since issue first reported) and I still can't find how to approach it. Holding Ctrl key is not an option - when reports are used by thousand users you can't expect them to intuitively use  Ctrl, no you can put instructions on every report page. There has to be an option to enforce one-way interactions for a visual.

[leekt]

I also searched for months and could not find a direct solution to this issue, but I found so far the following two workarounds. Neither of them are perfect, but if you absolutely need to find something for this issue, this may still work for you:

1) If available, use drill-down on the first visual (e.g. map in the above context) that cross-filters to the table. The drill-down will have an effect of "locking" the filtered state in the second table and prevent from resetting it. The limitation is that users need to know how to use drill-down and drill-up, and the drill-down cannot be kept to "on" by default (i.e. it always shows as “off” when reports are loaded the first time).

2) Download and use the following table visual (also from Microsoft) instead of the standard table:

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA104380796?src=office

Strangely and compared to other tables I tried, this one does not reset its filter even after clicking on an entry.

The limitation is that this table is not a conventional table (it is a ranking table) and options are very limited (e.g. no possibility to change the font, font size, no line wrapping, cannot remove the first “Rank” column), but by hiding parts that are not needed, it provides at least a possible way.

[danno]

Most out of the box visuals will support multi-select across visuals, just hold the CTRL key.  Let me know if the Map visual also supports this. 

[StuartSmith]

Not sure I understand you, but as an example I want to be able to select a map bubble, that then displays all table rows related to that map bubble in the table, I then want to select a row from the table results and the card will show data from the select table row, whilst the table still showing only the data specific to the selected map bubble.  I will woks fine, apart from when you select a table row, instead of the table only showing rows relating to the selected map bubble, it reverts back to the full table.  

[danno]

Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select map region, then table row

[StuartSmith]

Thanks, but thats more of a workaround and seems im not the only person with the issue.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Table-Visual-Prevent-unfiltering-on-row-click/td-p/547465 and the "click" solution was also offered, but fine if you know that, but for users using the report...

The search continues.

[StuartSmith · Accepted solution]

I eventually ended up removing the map visual as wasnt working how i wanted it to.