Skip to main content
Microsoft Idea

Power BI

Completed

Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Vote (1588) Share
abhishek sreesaila's profile image

abhishek sreesaila on 04 Jan 2015 16:37:48

Ability to select multiple items in a chart say multiple bars, pie's etc and automatically have filters applied to all the existing reports. this helps to highlight anomalies and see all the surrounding reports changes as we do it and showcase risks/opportunities

Administrator on 09 Feb 2018 05:00:49

As of the February update, we now support cross-highlighting across multiple visuals! You can read the details in my blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-february-2018-feature-summary/#crosshighlight

Comments (150)
abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Joseph Hughes on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:33

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

This feature appears to have been altered during the Oct. 2018 release and limits the user to cross-highlight only selected visuals. When a visual has been filtered "ad-hoc" by cross-highlighting and hidden under the selection pane, the filter is released. In my opinion, this is not acceptable and forces the user to "anchor" down each bookmark

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:31

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Is there a way to set the default to "ctrl+left click" for certain charts or tabs so that the user can dig into the visuals without having to hold the ctrl button? Not all of my users will be able to grasp the concept of holding ctrl+click so I'd like to set it as the default for them to just click. Thank you!

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:45

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

In PowerBI embed, how to be notified that multiple values are selected in different visuals?
dataSelected event only consider the last visual that has been clicked (and no dataUnSelected event exists)

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

j.dijkman on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:39

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

As already asked by someone else:

How do you cross-highlight across multiple visuals on a Mac? Control click doesn't work (and previous workaround, Control double-click, doesnt work either.)

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:38

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Seemed to be working last week, and then for some reason this no longer works. Usually held down Ctrl +Click and selected multiple items. Just downloaded March Update to make use of the Tool-tip reporting feature and now seem to somehow lose the ability to select multiple items. Any help with this?

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:13

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

How do you cross-highlight across multiple visuals on a Mac? Control click doesn't work (and previous workaround, Control double-click, doesnt work either.)

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Michael Shparber on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:05

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

Awesome! Best update since "clickable" matrix! Keep up the great work guys!

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Amir Netz on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:33

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

This feature shipped in the February update.

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

LN on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:18

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

It has been almost three months now. Do we have an expected date for such feature?

abhishek sreesaila's profile image Profile Picture

Athy on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:39

RE: Ability to select multiple items in a report for cross-highlighting

there is a work around . You can use a normal filter in combination with the "Text filter " visual of Microsoft . They both are pointed to the same column . You filter with the Text filter and then you check the values you want in the normal filter. You can continue doing this until you have all the values you want to select (The normal Filter should have "multiselect" on.
Hope it helps
Athy
PS the okviz filter is gut idea but never was stable