Use Visual as a Filter for another visual

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have this visual on the top of a page, and I would like to filter a news feed (on the bottom of the page), when you press the YYYYMM (circled in Red).  How would I go about that?  Thanks.

[VasTg]

@Anonymous 

You have to enable the filter option in Edit interactions.

Refer to this documentation

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-reports-visual-interactions

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[Anonymous]

Thanks.

I did try adjusting the interacation, and they were already turned on.  

I'm thinking now it might be the way the tables are linked.  

When I select one of the YearMth from the graph ,it doesn't Filter the news feed, even though the two tables that populate each visual are linked to a mutual "Date" table like this:

Relationships:

From: Table(Column)	To: Table(Column)
GraphTbl(YearMth)	DateTbl(YearMth)
NewsFeed(YearMth)	DateTbl(YearMth)

Shouldn't this type of relationship allow them to filter each other?  Or do they have to be directly linked, which I can't do, because it would be a many-to-many relationship.

[VasTg · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

Do you have the filter direction defined correctly?

It should be either of these

1. GraphTable->Datetable->newsfeed 

2. If Datetable is a dimension(ideally it should) then the arrows should be Datetable->Graphtable and Datetable->Newsfeed. Then your graph Yearmth should be from Datetable.

3. All the filter direction should be bidirectional if it is not giving circular reference error.

For you to slice from the graph with relationship defined as Graphtbl->datetbl and Newsfeed->Datetbl as you mentioned, make the filter direction as bidirection(Approach 3). If you get circular reference error(i don't know what other tables you have), follow approach 2.

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[Anonymous]

That worked.  I did #2 and #3 and works perfectly.  Thank you so much.