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Hierarchy in legend

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Chris Bevan on 22 Dec 2016 00:34:02

When using a Hierarchy in the "Details" section of a chart you gain the ability to drill up and down that hierarchy. I would like to be able to place the same hierarchy in the "Legend" section of the chart so that my legend will update based on the level of the hierarchy I have drilled to.

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Suyash Dewangan on 03 Oct 2023 05:23:08

RE: Hierarchy in legend

Dang! This was open in 2016 and it is still open. Microsoft needs to catch up with other BI tools.

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william chastka on 17 Aug 2021 14:18:45

RE: Hierarchy in legend

Definitely would be useful and this lack of functionality has come up several different times in reporting

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AZEDDINE EL-MALLAHI on 24 Nov 2020 13:28:52

RE: Hierarchy in legend

That would be indeed interesting for line charts, to be able to match the selection made in slicers in case it's using a hierarchy.

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Rudy Welvaert on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:20

RE: Hierarchy in legend

The captcha doesn't appear, so I can't vote

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Quinn on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:06

RE: Hierarchy in legend

Completely agree, we have a table with over 1 billion rows and the only work around I've found involved cross joining the names of the columns in the hierarchy to the table in question. Since we have 4 different columns we'd like to be able to switch between in the legend, this is currently quadrupling the size of this table.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:43

RE: Hierarchy in legend

For sure, that important for "Filled Map"