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Software ==>	Power BI (160 exercises)
Topic ==>	Filtering data (15 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Adding Slicers to filter your report

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Open the Class Days.pbix file from the folder above.

Add a table with the following columns.

Change the Class Date hierarchy to show the actual date.

Add Slicers for the following columns.

Class Date
Day of Week
Level
Class

If you want the Day of Week to be sorted correctly you can using the Sort by Column option.

Change the style of the Day of Week and Level slicers to Dropdown, and the Class slicer to Tile.

Now set each slicer so that the table is filtered as follows.

My 2 favourite classes!

If your slicers are correctly set you should see a total of 175 attendees.

Save the file as Slicer Filtering.pbix

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From:	Orin
When:	05 Aug 25 at 14:17

Quite easy to get to the result of 175 but I am a bit confused by the 2 ways to do it.

First instinct is to set each slicer by clicking on it individually... but this does not lead to the Filters on this visual. (Why ??)
And is slightly less precise for the Date filter.

If we do it all by selecting the table and then set the filters, then we do get the 175 and the same Filters on this visual.

Which way do you recommend ? Are they obvious pro/cons ?

From:	Shaun
When:	08 Aug 25 at 13:38

Hi Orin,

On our Power BI course we teach the 2 main methods of filtering being the filter pane and slicers.

If you use a slicer to filter a visual this will not show in the Filter pane, simply because you haven't used the pane to apply the filters. It will however only allow you to filter the visual based on what data is left after the slicer filtering has taken place.

If you chose to use the Filter pane to apply the same filters they would show in the Filter pane because that is where they were set.

Both methods have pros & cons but my general rule is if I as the report creator apply filters I do it in the Filter pane. If I want an end viewer to be able to filter I use slicers. This is because slicers are much more user friendly than the Filter pane.

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