Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

The Slicer visual

So now that we know that interactive filtering will always be an option for users, what do we do when our end users want to filter by something that isn't used inside our visuals? This is where the Slicer visual comes into play. The Slicer visual only allows one field to be assigned to it but, depending on what data type that field is, we will have different presentation options. The first option will be if we wanted to use a field of a String/Text date type. The second option will appear if we use any of the Numeric data types, which include: Decimal Number, Fixed Decimal Number, Whole Number and any of the Date data types. This second option is referred to as a Numeric Range Slicer. Let's take a look at these two different ...