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Global filter in dashboards

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Douglas Dixon on 07 Nov 2014 01:40:04

Allow me to pin a filter to the dashboard that can be associated with one or more pinned dashboard KPIs.

Administrator on 10 Jul 2020 16:04:37

We don't plan to bring filters to dashboards. We do plan on investing more in composite models to allow multiple sources to be brought into the same report for slicing and filtering.

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Alex Rutto on 08 Jun 2023 04:55:20

RE: Global filter in dashboards

The ability to have your CEO filter visuals in a dashboard Saves his/her time. Please consider adding the ability to pin slicers/filters on a dashboard page.

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Thilini Munasinghe on 04 Nov 2022 02:47:52

RE: Global filter in dashboards

It is disappointing to see sync pane not working in the dashboard even pinned individual report page does support filtering. I think it is important in the real world when user keep asking to add filters and sync across reports/dashboards.

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Elizabeth McDonald on 24 Jan 2022 17:10:42

RE: Global filter in dashboards

I am so surprised and disappointed to see this marked as declined. For those of us building dashboards for enormous corporations comprised of many businesses, the ability to filter a dashboard is critical.


Without that ability to filter, we are forced to create countless copies of reports and to re-use visuals over and over again (an administrative nightmare). For example, if we are building a turnover dashboard and want to bring in other relevant data, such as span of layers data and recruiting data, instead of being able to pin visuals from existing spans of layers and recruiting reports, we need to copy and paste them into a Turnover report (both the visual and the associated visual tooltip page) ...and now we need to maintain both sets of identical visuals. This would all be elegantly resolved if we were able to pin visuals from disparate reports and THEN FILTER the dashboard.

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Danielle Farmer on 27 Aug 2021 18:02:47

RE: Global filter in dashboards

Really interested in seeing this functionality added to Dashboards. There are so many instances where being able to tailor a dashboard to an area of focus with dynamic or global filters would be so useful. The current functionality is weak and requires a lot of work to get around. Please make the dashboard tool more relevant. The age of Dashboards is upon us !!! 

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Alex Richt on 27 Aug 2021 07:14:07

RE: Global filter in dashboards

This would be very beneficial and I can't imagine it would take a large % of resources to achieve. Please consider this! Thank you

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Jeroen na on 02 Jun 2021 07:34:59

RE: Global filter in dashboards

Please consider the sync filter in dashboards. Without it the dashboard function is useless to me for 50 % of my customers

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:17:50

RE: Global filter in dashboards

adding my vote

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Anonymous on 06 Jul 2020 00:16:57

RE: Global filter in dashboards

Adding my vote and comment to this. This seems like a very simple/basic feature that should be included in dashboards. Why wouldn't you include this feature? It's a simple thing but also a big deal to users.

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Sudhir Batra on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:30

RE: Global filter in dashboards

Dashboards are expected to work in live with the reports but if sync slicers working well with the reports does not work for Dashboard then it makes the feature less attractive.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:26

RE: Global filter in dashboards

Adding filters to Dashboard is an essential feature.