{"id":33431,"date":"2021-01-21T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=33431"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:17:07","slug":"bidirectional-cross-filtering-for-directquery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/bidirectional-cross-filtering-for-directquery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidirectional cross-filtering for DirectQuery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Often report creators and data modelers face challenges determining how to apply filters to a report, when filtering tables to create the appropriate view of data. Given, the bidirectional cross-filtering, report creators and data modelers have better control to apply filters when working with related tables. Moreover, cross-filtering enables them to apply filters on\u00a0both\u00a0sides of a table relationship. Hence, you can apply the filters by propagating the filter context to a second related table on the other side of a table relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"enable-bidirectional-cross-filtering-for-directquery\"><strong>How to enable bidirectional cross-filtering for DirectQuery?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We can enable cross-filtering in the\u00a0<strong>Edit relationship<\/strong>\u00a0dialog box. In general, for enabling cross-filtering for a relationship, you must configure &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, Set\u00a0<strong>Cross filter direction<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>Both<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, select\u00a0<strong>Apply security filter in both directions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-bi\/transform-model\/media\/desktop-bidirectional-filtering\/bidirectional-filtering_2.png\" alt=\"Configure bidirectional filtering in Power BI Desktop.\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, when you are creating cross-filtering DAX formulas in Power BI Desktop, use\u00a0<em>UserPrincipalName<\/em>. Since, this field is often the same as a user&#8217;s login, for instead <em>cloe@contoso.com<\/em>, instead of\u00a0<em>UserName<\/em>. Also, you may be required to create a related table to map <em>UserName  <\/em>or <em>EmployeeID<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>UserPrincipalName<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scenario: To learn how date table works together with bidirectional cross-filtering. One of the basic suggestions is to always use a one-way filter for the date table and not use bidirectional relationships at all for date tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-bi\/transform-model\/desktop-bidirectional-filtering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bidirectional cross-filtering for DirectQuery in Power BI Desktop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/analyzing-data-with-microsoft-power-bi-da-100-free-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Microsoft-Exam-DA-100-Free-Practice-Test.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Exam DA-100 Free Practice Test\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often report creators and data modelers face challenges determining how to apply filters to a report, when filtering tables to create the appropriate view of data. 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