How to build a custom filter pane in Power BI

Hello everyone!!

Here we are again, with some amazing visualisation tricks for Power BI. This time I’m going to talk about how you can build a customised filter pane for your report, and fear not, it will look just like the standard one!

“Why would I want to build a filter pane when I have the standard one?” you might be asking… There is a small limitation with the filter pane. Sometimes you want specific filters to be applied only to specific visuals, or you want the filters to not interact with some visuals, or maybe you just want the filters to look different. If you’re using the standard filter pane this might prove to be a bit challenging.

That is why I came up with the idea to build a customised filter pane, to incorporate all those hard requirements, and well, it still looks awesome!

Just a sneak peak of my customised filter pane:

As with my previous post about navigation panes, in this one I use the Buttons + Selection Pane + Bookmarks combination.

Let’s get started!

1) The first thing we are going to do is to make visible the Selection Pane and Bookmarks Pane. To do this go to the View Tab (1) and click on both Bookmarks and Selection (2):