Say I want to create a leaderboard, where each rank (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) displays their name, statistics, and points, maybe even their portrait if that's feasible. In addition to that I would like to have a feature where there is a dropdown menu to see the rankings from previous weeks, just to let viewers see how the rankings have changed. I've dug around the internet and can't seem to find exactly what I want. Thanks
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I'm trying to create an interactive dashboard on Power BI and there is something that is driving me crazy.
Here's the situation, I have on my dashboard two slicers, one to choose the year and one to choose the business unit I want to see data from. I also have two cards, one to display the net income per year and one to display the net cash flow.
When I choose a year and a business unit, I want to see the net income related to that year and business unit but also the net cashflow.
However, it seems that my two cards are linked. Here's an illustration to make things more easy to understand:
The values of my cards are always identical. If I change one it changes the other. Why?
How can I make them 'independent'?
Thank you for your help
It sounds that you need to adjust interactions between slicers and cards.
Click on slicer > Format and click on Edit interactions
top menu
You will see Filter and None icons on each of the card visuals and second slicer.
Check None on the card which should not be affected by visual.
card visual
I have a column with lengthy values in my Power BI table. I would like it to only show a part of it so that the table isn't hard to navigate, and once the viewer clicks or do something, then it shows the whole value. Is there a way I can accomplish this?
There are posts about collapsing/expanding the whole column, as in keep it disappeared and then appear once you expand or vice versa, but I can't find a way to collapse/expand each values.
Following is an example. As you can see, "Bio" column is very lengthy, so I would it to show maybe a few lines in original view, and once the viewer wants to see the full Bio of that authors, then they can by a click or any action.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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What I want
You can add a column with the truncated version, and a Drill Through to a report page for that single bio.
Hello I am trying to raise awareness about his subject I am facing this issue, I've posted on microsoft PBI community as wel, Did you even know about this, if so, how did you do to workaround this?
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Beware-Misleading-behaviour-using-Select-all-or-none-selected/m-p/1982650#M749494
As stated in the post, I have just found half a paragraph hinting about this behaviour and all the people that I've talked to did not even know it behaved this way.
TL:DR. If you use the filter panel to filer a slicer (filter on this visual) in order to restrict the selection of a slicer (so your end user does not get lost in too many options or you want a dynamic slicer showing last x months, TOP N , basically any other advanced filtering optins given using this feature).
It only visually filters the slicer so if the user ends up using "select all" or even clearing the selection, all the data would be selected even the data you (as designer) wanted to filter out. Which is misleading since the end user would see the tag "all" over the slicer selection but when clicking on it it would only show the filtered out values, so they would naturally assume that "all" means just those values and not allvalues (hidden values included).
Example
there are only two values to be selected in the slicer but the select all option actally seelcts all values including hidden ones
One thing to check first, I bet you did not apply the filtered values in the filter pane on the whole page, rather you applied it only on the visual. Try to apply that on the whole page and it seems to work for me.
I am looking into utilising PowerBI to identify time saved due to various Projects. People will add the projects to a Sharepoint List which then feeds into PowerBI.
PROJECTs Table:
Project Tite, Desc, Hours/Month Saved, StartDate, EndDate, Repeat? (T/F)
[Some Projects only save a fixed 10 or so hours, others save time per month (indicated by the Repeat Column)]
I've created two measures, RUNTIME determining how long the project has run in months ((TodayDate - StartDate)/30) as well as TIMESAVED which is the total hours saved from that specific project (RUNTIME*Hours/Month Saved).
Whilst this works, it has a pretty big limitation. When selecting a range, say 01/01/2017 - 01/01/2018, any projects with a start date before that range are excluded. However these maybe on-going, meaning the time saved by this project during the range needs to be added.
I've attempted to find a solution to this, however I keep getting stuck at requiring the the filter dates from the slicer, however I'm not certain this is possible. I need those projects with on-going savings to have the savings during the period given to be counted as well.
Possible alternative maybe to create a Month/Year column per Month/Year with a custom formula per column to determine that projects Hours saved for that Month/Year however this seems inefficient, at that point back to Excel might be better.
Any ideas / suggestions would be greatly appreciated, currently running through any ideas to solve but keeps coming back to needing that value specified by the filter. Cheers in advance for any advice tackling this :)
See also: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Re-occuring-Savings-over-Time-with-Time-Date-Slicer/m-p/346100
Unfortunately, there is no current simple solution to this problem out-of-the-box with Power Bi. All of the slicers seem to handle dates as a single point in time. They suffer in that if you are dealing with any items that span a Start and End date (like your projects, and most of my data examples) they only take one of the dates as the input. The slicers need to accept an optional end date in our case and then perform a simple date span overlap logic to determine the items that match.
I tried to solve your problem with out-of-the-box Power Bi Desktop slicers and a custom visual Timeline Slicer I found at the store with no luck earlier this month. Out of frustration, I posted a question in the Power Bi forums for suggestions.
The final suggestion from the forums I got was to "use two Filters at Filter pane". But I am not satisfied with this answer.
The Timeline Slicer code is open source and when I get more time (ha ha), I would like to make this change to the Timeline Slicer and publish it back to the repository for everyone to use.
I will monitor this question and the forum to see if a solution emerges in the future.
You can use Timeline Storyteller. you can create your time line and add a couple Slicers for Start and End. It will split by day the dates and you won't miss any data.
I have finally gotten a column chart working for my data set. However, it only outputs fifteen columns, and the data set has 36 columns. It will output fifteen columns (or less if I limit the set to only items that are non-zero...but my boss wants all of the data shown) no matter what width the graph is set to.
Is there an absolute hard-coded column limit for graphs made by Google's Charts API, and if not, is there a way I can tell the graph to output everything?
I've just run into this myself, almost 7 years after the original problem report. Columns representing the right-side of my data are being silently un-drawn.
Let's look at the big picture. Somebody provides a charting library. They should be expected to show the data as best they can. In the case of a column table, that would be to show the first and last columns, and then choose which intermediate columns to show based on an algorithm that takes available pixels into account. It would then let the user zoom in to see the full set of columns within the selected range. This gives the developer using the chart the freedom to show an unlimited amount of data and not have to worry that someday columns at the end are simply not drawn.
Google is already choosing to not print some of the column labels due to space constraints, so they're already halfway to understanding the big picture.
Nowhere in the documentation does it explain this truncation of columns due to space constraints, or for any other chart type that I've seen. But you sure can choose your background colors in great levels of detail.
If I had known this restriction going in, I would have chosen a different chart package and not wasted my time. My choices now are to break my "Lifetime" data into yearly graphs that fit in the available space, which is clunky as hell, or migrate to a different chart package. Thanks Google. :^(
P.S. I tried to post this as a comment to the OP, but after using SO for years I don't have enough points...