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All right next step let's talk about slicers and you'll see the slicer icon.

For me it's in the lower corner it looks like a little table with a funnel on top of it and basically

a slicer is a fancy word for a visual filter so it behaves just like any other filter and it applies

filter context just like any other type of visualization.

And it's a very simple object it only takes one input which has some fields.

So we're to take something from territories for instance and drag country in.

It just creates a list of checkboxes.

And again these pass filter context just like any other filter or visual and clear them like this.

You can also format this as a dropdown which behaves exactly the same way just a little bit of a stylistic

difference.

So nothing special about regular slicers.

They act just like slicers in a pivot table in Excel as well but where they get really interesting is

when you pull in a date field.

So let's go under a calendar grab date and swap that in and place country.

And you might be thinking OK well what's so great about that it's the same exact thing you're just listing

hundreds and hundreds of dates.

Well thing is we've got additional options now.

Check this out.

So between is actually my personal favorite.

Between allows a user to set a start date and an end date by dragging these handles on a timeline and

customizing the exact date range that you're looking at.

Can also type fields and use this calendar pop up which is really really slick.

In each of these input boxes.

So that's the before option.

I mean the between option before basically just gives you the end date to play with after only gives

you the start date and then you can do the normal list or drop down the last one that's really interesting

is relative.

And so this allows you to choose things like show me the data from the last 30 days.

Right.

Or the next or this week or this year whatever it could be any combination of these fields.

Now you might be wondering why did everything blank out and it shows 30 days.

Well look at the date range.

This is current data.

It's based on actual real time information not the data in my data models calendar.

So that particular option is really great when you have current real time data you could use this relative

option for an hour I think between is going to be our best bet so that we'll have full customization

over the window of data that we look at.

Now stylistically only a couple of changes that I think we shouldn't make to this formatting go in the

Format tab.

I don't want the header it's just redundant.

It's pretty clear that we're looking at dates here.

And for the date input formatting let's just give it kind of a light gray background to make those numbers

jump off the page a little bit more.

And there we go.

So it's kind of position this peer can resize it.

I like putting my main controls kind of at the top to make it clear you know that these are impacting

everything you're seeing on this page.

Now already this date slicer is going to be useful because see what happens when we start looking at

2015 dates alone.

All we have are bike categories sales and because we only have bikes being sold.

There's only a handful of subcategories in this case road bikes and mountain bikes and obviously all

of our products are bike related products.

So something changed in Adventure Works sales strategy or their corporate structure where they didn't

start selling other items until it looks like later in 2016.

So turns out that they're not really interested in analyzing the data from 2015.

It was kind of a different world.

They were just a little bike shop back then.

So good opportunity to use a report level filter here.

And what I'll do is not selecting any specific visual I'm going to go and grab that year column from

my calendar drop it into Report level filters and then what we can do is set a basic filter type and

select 2016 and 2017.

You see that it basically just summarize what I'm doing here year is 2016 or 2017.

And now everything in here now reflects that report level filter.

Even the timeline itself it can no longer extend my start date before January 1st 2016.

So now we can be sure that the date ranges that we're looking at here with the exception of some early

dates in 2016 should reflect all of the categories that Adventure Works selling now a little tease into

one of the more advanced concepts here called sinkings slicers.

You may have noticed on the View tab there's this option here in the show group that says sync slicers

that opens up a menu that allows me to determine basically the scope of impact that this slicer has.

Because generally these visuals are going to impact other visuals on the same page.

In other words they're filter.

Context will apply to visuals on that same page.

But slicers if you want kind of a more universal control in a similar way that you would set a report

level filter you can allow a slicer to sync with other pages and therefore control the data and the

visuals without having to duplicate and have two different versions of the same slicer operating on

two different wavelengths.

So right now it's showing me that I have two pages in my report exact summary and Page 1 I show the

filter and sync it on both the exact summary and the page one sheet.

What this is going to do is create a copy of this timeline and it's going to put one right here on page

1.

And not only that but when to make a change to one of them like to 7:1 the other changes as well.

So these are now sinked together.

And both the slicer and the reports are the visuals on those pages are adjusting accordingly.

So that's a great way to make your kind of controls apply not only to the current page and not only

to the entire report but potentially to only specific pages or combinations of pages.

In this case I don't actually want to sync that.

You can close the sink slicers view and in fact we don't even need this page one anymore is kind of

just scrap anyway.

So let's delete that page and there we go.

We've got our date slicer here.

Our matrix bar charts things are coming along pretty nicely except we're going to dig in cards and KPI

as.