topic Ignore selection in calculated dimension in App Development

Ignore selection in calculated dimension

psublue98 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:28:29 GMT

I would like the “County” filter pane (based on a dimension of [COUNTY_ST]) to not filter or change based on a selection made in another drop down, “Ozone...”, which is based on the dimension [NAAQS].

You can see in the below that because Ozone is selected, the number of counties is greatly limited (the gray bar) in my county filter. However, I want the County filter to show all counties regardless of what’s being selected in NAAQS.

Kind of a different spin from set analysis in that this isn’t on a measure, but rather a dimension. I’ve been searching for calculated dimension how tos, but haven’t sorted it out.

Update: Technically, all the counties are in the County filter pane, but the associative selection model is graying most of them out and putting them at the bottom. I want to override that for this filter pane.

Re: Ignore selection in calculated dimension

bhupesh_gupta — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 06:31:24 GMT

Can't you use Alternate state to achieve this.

Put your Country filter is some other state and selections will not affect it.

Regards

Bhupesh

Re: Ignore selection in calculated dimension

psublue98 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:10:59 GMT

Thank you for the reply.

I don't follow use of 'Alternate state.' Do you have a resource link that explains this further?

Re: Ignore selection in calculated dimension

psublue98 — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:32:00 GMT

I didn't find a true solution to my question, but the primary issue is that the county dimension and its table has 3200+ counties, whereas the NAAQS dimension and table only has 300+ counties. So the filters panes are playing off the data where there's an overlap of counties in both tables.

A hack that I used was to create a dummy table with a NAAQS field and all 3200+ counties, but leaving most it blank. It made the app work as desired.