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In today's #daxfridays video I will show you how to get selected or multiple values from a slicer.
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[@avestuart]

Oh my god, this is a lifesaver. I have a very odd dataset and up against a serous deadline, being able to get selected values from a slicer and then send variables to a dataset based upon those slicer values is incredible.

[@CurbalEN]

Good luck with your project !!

[@josecap12]

Thanks so much for sharing this solution. I spent hours trying to figure it out in a situation with filters of different time periods on the same column, and it helped me to avoid duplicated sum.

[@andrecavasotero6234]

In my opinion the best part of the video was the explanation of the IN operator. Thanks for sharing.

[@CurbalEN]

Thanks Andre! It was a great example to explain it :) /Ruth

[@meghasyam427]

I have completed advanced dax course in udemy but they didn't give any basic explanation on allselected and selected value. But your 10 min video helped me understand basic intuition. Thanks a lot for your help.

[@lawrencew8243]

Wow this solved my problem so quickly, spinning my wheels on different forums until I found this. Thank you!!!

[@Richkotite1]

This for me was the best and most important DAX Power Bi video I have seen. M management likes to look at selective items. This one did it, works great. Thank you

[@CurbalEN]

Glad to hear!!

[@pradeepviv3672]

Thanks very much Ruth, this has been very useful. I love how your video is simple to understand and follow. Also thanks very much for your community PBIX files. Cant wait to check it out.

[@CurbalEN]

Thanks to you Pradeep for the feedback! /Ruth

[@boul767355]

Great Ruth, finally someone who can explain clearly PowerBI !

[@CurbalEN]

🥳🥳 /Ruth

[@raneemalabwi2627]

Thank you for the great explanation. I have a question, Why didn't we put values instead of selectedvalue ?hank you

[@Xarx42]

I just spent quite some time to figure out how to select multiple(!) options and not just one until your video pushed me finally in the right direction. Thank you a lot! :)

[@CurbalEN]

Congrats, i completely understand the feeling :)

[@dhruvsingh9]

Thank you so much for this .... Can you show us the same with date slicer... Where I have a period in the slicer like fromdate and to date kind of situation

[@andredeoliveira3684]

Thanks Ruth, you're the best! greetings from Brazil

[@CurbalEN]

Obrigada 😄

[@HachiAdachi]

Apparently you had already introduced us "IN" and "CONTAINSROWS" functions 79 DAX Fridays ago (#39), but I didn't remember even the existence of these functions until now. I guess it's time for a refresher... I'm afraid to find out what other useful functions I had forgotten but could have been perfect solutions for all these times that I was spending hours/days to come up with workarounds... but as they say, it's better late than never to learn (and re-learn... again...)! Thank you, Ruth!

[@CurbalEN]

Believe me DAX Fridays is a function refresher for me too and I check my old videos all the time!! Weird to learn from a past self 😂😂😂 /Ruth

[@HachiAdachi]

@@CurbalEN whoa, don't mess with the Space-Time Continuum, Ruth! That's some dangerous stuff! lol

[@CurbalEN]

😂😂😂 I knoooowww! /Ruth

[@ravindrasarak2007]

This helped me a lot. Thank you so much. IN Function is magical!

[@lxh3943]

Thank you so much for all of your videos. You have helped me so many times. I appreciate you very much.

[@CurbalEN]

And Thanks for supporting me and my work, appreciate it too :)

[@theresakurtz2888]

Thank you Ruth. I never knew about "IN". I used it to count the number of slicer items selected.

[@CurbalEN]

Yes, that is a great use case for IN, well done!

[@vedantdashora2528]

That’s amazing! You saved my 2 months of PBI efforts to get rejected just because of I couldn’t figure out how to do this requirement applied over.

[@juanignacioXI]

Ruth u have always the answers for all my Dax problems, hehe, thanks a lot a gain. You r the greatest teacher ever!

[@CurbalEN]

We are probably working the same paths ;) /Ruth

[@Unbox747]

I love your videos. It's always so inspiring, it just gave me an idea to solve something that was considered unsolvable.

[@CurbalEN]

Music to my ears!!

[@yaga7406]

Thanks a lot - I was able to solve many of my problems/questions with you videos. Really appreciate the time you spend sharing!

[@CurbalEN]

And your feedback makes it all worth it, thanks!

[@silverwaters]

OMG I was trying to figure this our for hours! Thank you!!!

[@erichsanches823]

Ruth, thanks a lot! You saved my day!

[@maraujjo]

Great!! I was searching for a week trying to solve this!! You are amazing! Thank you so much!!

[@CurbalEN]

Yey!! Glad it helped!

[@МихаилАдаев-ж3ф]

Awesome. Thanks a lot, this is exectly the solution I wanted googling how to get list of selected values from a slicer)

[@BrunoAraujo-po2lm]

YOU'VE JUST SAVED MY WORKDDAY MAM, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Take my like and my subscription!

[@CurbalEN]

Welcome!! 🎉🎉

[@awadelrahman]

4 years old video, solved my problem today!!! THANKS

[@CurbalEN]

Fantastic and well done!! 👏👏

[@pedrocapra4388]

I was cracking my head, all I had to do was changing = to "IN". You rock!

[@CurbalEN]

🥳🥳

[@paayumthotagaming8372]

Thank you So much, you solved my 72 hours head scratching issue.

[@bradj229]

Outstanding! Thanks Ruth!

[@ChrisSmithFW]

This is great. Thanks so much. Just one question: what do we do with the Category card that returns blank when multiple values are selected?

[@navilese]

Thanks you!! I was needing this solution, and after a whole day of working I got it becouse of you :)

[@JitendraSingh-pg9sc]

Love your video Ruth, I am looking for some help. I am using date range slicer and on every selection I want to filter my page (filter chart and table data) for the selected date range and it should also include data for blank date values as well every time.

[@rodrigofazzolari3466]

Very ellegant solution. I was really stuck on that issue.

[@jaeesteban2850]

you videos are great! have a question though? What if I have 3 slicers? Can I still use this?

[@Himanshu_Yaduvanshi04]

What if we can take out the unique categories from the orders table to make the slicer and filter the table with that slicer?

[@shahpashupati]

Nice Video but what to do if I want the sum of total amount for category B even if category A and B are selected. Thanks in advance for your response.

[@mamdll007]

Thank you for your video. It was very clear. I have a question, please. If the user wants to filter on a visualization dimension (slicer) that concerns several columns. In advance, I wonder on which column I should add the dynamic filter condition based on the user’s choice. Example : Dimension de visualisation 2'[Categorie] -> Categorie contains the name of three different columns var selectcategory = SELECTEDVALUE('Dimension de visualisation 2'[Categorie]) return CALCULATE([Taux de complétude Linky], FILTER (NRJ_TRAFIC_PUISSANCE_MOIS, NRJ_TRAFIC_PUISSANCE_MOIS[selectcategory]) = "") thank you in advance for your return

[@summerbrooks7262]

What if I wanted to select A, and always have B show as the constant comparison value as well as A or whatever else is selected? How could I do that?

[@roopalityagi3958]

Thank you for making our lives easy :)

[@CurbalEN]

At your service ;)

[@ahmedal-dossary4386]

Awesome trick indeed Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@mdupler1]

Thank you soooo MUCH! I spent hours trying to figure this out!

[@CurbalEN]

🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@bhuruu]

This is super . However in this case we have only 1 measure or same style of measure (ony filter condition was changed). How about when we have different measures ?

[@michelerampazzo]

simple but very effective!!! Many thanks Ruth 👍!!!!!

[@CurbalEN]

Yey!!! The pleasure is all mine :) /Ruth

[@ankushjain4128]

Your session is full of informative .....please keep it up your work

[@CurbalEN]

Will do thanks!

[@tatuionut18]

Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[@CurbalEN]

🥳 /Ruth

[@patrickkinbonso1809]

Interestingly when you click A and B on your filter, it said 200 and 500 which shows only the inter-filter from your category table (which has chosen only category B). As a result it confuses me a little whether your slicer in effect works but I trust that it does.

[@PeachBeef]

Haha the end there where you got turned around, welcome to half of my day at work! I love your videos so much, you've taught me so so so much.

[@CurbalEN]

😂😂😂 Mine too!! /Ruth

[@RajeevKumar-fm5xx]

Awesome, great knowledge, exactly looking for that 👍

[@brunelresidences1113]

Great video Ruth - wondering, how can the card show the multiple values selected i.e. A, B, C rather than Blank?

[@CurbalEN]

A card can only show one value. To show more you can use a table instead :) /Ruth

[@erikcrins]

Hi This is the first time I see one of your video's. Thank you for taking the time and effort! Great solution! But... What do I need to change if I want this to work with a slicer that has tekst in it? Id like to show the selected strings in a card. (I have slicers on the first page of a report(synchronised for all other pages) and I'd like to show the selections on the pages with visuals)

[@ecofriendlyify]

Such a great trick. Thanks a lot!

[@CurbalEN]

Yey!!

[@sergegagne874]

You saved my bacon once again, thank you!

[@malavikamenon9127]

I want to auto fill/ select the value of a multi-select slicer based on another integrated slicer. Is that possible?

[@metricosavante6551]

Excelente aporte muchisimas gracias. Me encuentro con un escenario similar pero no me da el resultado esperado, mas bien, no obtengo ningun resultado, solo error. Mi ejercicio es con un slicer de fechas (donde elijo un inicio y un fin) lo que necesito es, tanto de la fecha inicio como fin, identificar el año y el mes para posteriormente saber cual es la meta TOTAL de ese Mes&Año y no solo de los días que apliqué en el filtro

[@CurbalEN]

Hola! La comunidad de power bi es el sitio perfecto para este tipo de preguntas, pruébalo! /Ruth

[@hemanadezhdank401]

Is it possible to assign the selected value dynamically to pull in different column values. Say, YTD, MTD, QTD as the selected value in the slicer and they are the separate columns in time dimension. Then how is it possible to pick the YTD, MTD, QTD flags from time dimension table. Please suggest.

[@eddyjawed4871]

This is great but I was looking for a simpler way to filter data without a sum calculation. Is such a thing possible? For example I want to filter a list of months from current period to start of the year (YTD) using a slicer?

[@subhadeepsarkar6402]

Hi I have a question , currently i am making a card where user will select a particular year and month and the value of a particular measure for that year and month will be shown in card please tell me how to put multiple condition inside selectedvalue from multiple column from filter?

[@poojachoudhury2227]

just waooo.. This is what I was looking for exactly!!

[@CurbalEN]

Fab!!

[@greatminds9315]

Big Thanks for the video and explanation, you are awesome. it saved my life. Subscribed :)

[@CurbalEN]

Welcome!

[@rohitpuranikratlami]

Thanks a lot for such a wonderful video🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@bisjosc]

thanks Ruth ..it is well explained and helps on my work .

[@CurbalEN]

Awesome to hear! /Ruth

[@vishnuprakash-e7p]

Hi Madam it was beautiful video. Would like to ask if have item with multiple cost price i am getting the sum of cost price instead of showing all the cost price individually kindly suggets please with a video if you have made any on this topic

[@jenniferchin3718]

was struggling with a calc and this helped bridge the gap :) wonderful!

[@CurbalEN]

Yey!!

[@MuhammadAbdulSami-p3k]

Thanks for this video, but this functionality is not working with the date slicer. I want to calculate date difference in days by comparing selected date of slicer. If anyone have solution then please let me know, and now as workaround i am using query parameter.

[@denisedff]

Hi Ruth great because it is guiding me to the right direction. But I was wondering. What if I do not need to calculate, if I wanted filter the information from a table where selectedvalue >= column A and selectedvalue

[@CurbalEN]

The error is telling you that your Measure returns a table when only a value is allowed. Different solutions depending on what you are trying to do. Can you post in the power bi community, giving all the details? /Ruth

[@leonardoolivaro5230]

You are amazing !!!! take a not: values in the slicer selected must be in text format otherwise returns an error. I was making that mistake :(

[@CurbalEN]

It is always the little things…

[@vmelendez83]

Hello, I'm new to your channel, but I really liked your way of explaining. Regarding this video, I have an exercise but with multiple periods, applying what you explain to us does not respect the filter I selected and adds everything up, can you help me? Thank you very much in advance

[@WorkStuff-wc5fv]

Hey does this solution still work?

[@kavyakovuru9]

Hello mam, this video has the relative information of what I'm searching today, Just one question, can we display more than 2 values using the same DAX function? Thanks in advance!!

[@navneetsingh1435]

I was struggling on something simple for days and looks like a possible solution here.

[@hello-u2w]

This is great, but is there a way to do this with the slicer column being in the same table as the measure? Cause this is kinda silly to be honest

[@reggaegonza]

Love You!!!! from Argentina!

[@gaurav__chaurasia__55555]

You are very blessed and i like your teaching I hope that I may get a life partner like you and for that I must also grow myself as deserving I am very unsocialized but blessed in indeed

[@gaurav__chaurasia__55555]

Forgive me if I said something awkward because I am very unsocialized and do not know how to express anything appropriately

[@mariaBI129]

Hi, how do you show default value when there is no selection?

[@bellalee9703]

Hi. this video is so helpful. I'm working on designing a dashboard in power bi. I want a user click on the slicer by name of project title. For example, the user click project A in the slicer. As a result, the graph will show that project A's progress for all months (Jan-Dec). Otherwise, if the user is not clicking the slicer, the graph remains blank. how I'm supposed to do? Thank you.

[@JesusCastro-fo6sn]

Excelente, Ruth. Muy agradecido por tu aporte. Saludos.

[@CurbalEN]

Saludos y buen finde! /Ruth

[@nielsrozeboom8852]

This was of a great help for me. Thank you a lot!

[@CurbalEN]

🥳🥳

[@thetoediastv]

Hi, thanks for your video. I have a question. I have 3 stages, Concept, Plan and Execution, for my project, I have put them in a filter in excel, now currently all activities are in the Concept stage, I want to show all the stages on the dashboard even though at present all activities are in the Concept stage, I want the dashboard to show all the other stages. I tried the option "Show all items with no data", but that doesn't work, any help please, thanks

[@hernanleandropanzini5089]

Just what I needed, THANK YOU

[@manu053299]

I have 2 silters on 2 different columns, but when I use selectedvalue, Dax seems to get confused from which coumn to pull the data from... do you have a solution?

[@MaanEid]

Thanks a lot! this is very clear and helpful

[@bahman7210]

Thank you Ruth . i have question , i need to show report base on employee name or employee id so for that reason i create new table to show name/employeeid in drop down ( SelectTbl) and based on selected value i wrote new formula to create column newcolumn= if( SelectTbl[AnonymousSelected] = "name" , Employee[name] , Employee[ID] ) but it doesn't work . (seems formula doesnt work for column and it just work for measure ) so instead of adding new table , if new fake column added to Employee table and change formula to newcolumn= if( Employee[AnonymousSelected] = "name" , Employee[name] , Employee[ID] ) then it works! :( do you have any idea why powerbi is so lazy !?!(disappointed ! you can do whatever you want in tableau but ....)

[@ADFTrainer]

If I don't want select a,b,c , table measure should blank. Can any one help on it

[@pedropradocarvalho]

how to do that using filter slicer with date range? >.

[@lucascolotta3315]

Thanks, Thanks!!!!! You are the best! :D

[@CurbalEN]

You too 🎉🎉

[@Mrs.Nobody5]

I want to use selected date start and end date but it returns only data inceluded dates.

[@srikiranakula5170]

Hi Ruth, I likes your videos on DAX... Could you pls make a video on Selectedmeasure(), IsSelectedmeasure()

[@excelrati]

Thanks a million! This has been greatly helpful!

[@CurbalEN]

Yey!!

[@myazigi]

Excelente tip Ruth, muchas gracias!!!

[@CurbalEN]

Un placer y buen finde! /Ruth

[@kikoyouth]

Hi Ruth, thank you very much for your videos. It has been quite tough for me to get what in SQL can be so simple to work in PowerBI. I was wondering if you could me with this specific issue: I have a Table which has Store_name,Country and I am now trying to calculate the % of Total Transactions for each Store but, has to be for any Countries selected on a Slicer. Let's say if I have Store_A/Country_1/50Transactions, Store_B/Country_1/50Transactions and Store_A/Country_2/200Transactions I want Store_A/Country_1=16.6% of Total Transactions,Store_B/Country_1=16.6% of Total Transactions and Store_A/Country_2=66.6% % of Total Transactions. I already have a simple DISTINCTCOUNT(Transactions) per row, but now I need the Total Transaction so that I can do the %. My Total Transaction = CALCULATE(DISTINCTCOUNT(Transaction),ALL(store_name)) is coming split by Country, so I getStore_A/Country_1=100Transactions, Store_B/Country_1=100Transactions, Store_A/Country_2=200Transactions instead of Store_A/Country_1=300Transactions, Store_B/Country_1=300Transactions, Store_A/Country_2=300Transactions which would allow me to then calculate the % of Total Transactions. I have played with various combinations of FILTER, ALL, ALLSELECTED but cannot seem to make it work. I feel like I am almost cracking PBI Grouping and Filtering but haven't made it yet... any help would be greatly appreciated. Gracias

[@CurbalEN]

Hi! Would you mind to ask in the power bi community? Thanks! /Ruth

[@cliveluis]

Great video ,Hi I have a question in reverse , what if I multi select 3 months and do not want YTD for certain columns/Values (ie addition of 3 months)? For Example , I’m ok with YTD for revenue by Multiselecting but for some other values , I want position at end of month Example if I select jul aug sep , I want YTD for revenue which is fine and normal , but for some other columns I want values at end of August only ( not total of July aug sep) ?

[@elkolodj1]

do you know how to create a bar chart with the top 5 within each bar of the chart

[@CurbalEN]

Haven’t done it myself, but check in the power BI community, somebody there must has done it :) /Ruth

[@elkolodj1]

@@CurbalEN good thanks

[@EngineeredFoodies]

I have an issue. I wanted to calculate the lowest value in a column for each year. Using the min implicit function I am able to get the minimum value. But when I put this on an animated bar chart, it displays all the minimum values of that particular year. Whereas, I wanted the lowest value per year to be displayed. Here is the code in DAX which I tried but the result is the same: Lowest per year = MINX (FILTER ( Dates, Dates[Year]), MIN('Score board'[Lowest Total.Score] ) )

[@TKLouie-ii2xh]

Very good and very helpful, love it.

[@selenevera8834]

You save my life ! I love you ; )

[@shayandossani91]

I have one issue. I have 2 dates col in one table. I want to calculate MTD from date 1 and I want to use filter for date 2 column to get MTD for Date 1 values when filtered any specific month. How it could be possible?

[@sunilnallagonda1389]

Hi Mam, Need your help. Using Slicers. i have one column consists of 20 different types of tasks. I want calculate task SLA's based on requirement. Say task 1 released date to task 5 closed date. another example like task 3 released date to task 20 closed date. based on my understandind like total four slicers will be there, two for From task list dropdown and another one will be to task list dropdown. and released date slicer and closed date slicer.

[@alankarsrivastava5328]

Thanks for wonderful information

[@CurbalEN]

Glad it was useful! /Ruth

[@ceobiclub9411]

Thank you! Awasome!

[@just4fun410]

Hi Curbal, If we don't select any value from slicer can we get aggregated value like (1500) without displaying category in the same table. If it's possible kindly let me know. Thanks :)

[@analisecritica8722]

How to select only one option in two different filters? example: In Filttro 1 it has the options (A, B ,C) and in Filttro 2 it has the options (D,E,F). So, how to select only 1 option among all options (A,B,C,D,E,F)?