Waterfall With Week on Week Slicer

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I am trying to slice a waterfall chart week on week.
So i am comparing the report week (which is the previous week to the week the report is issued) to the report week -1.

I cant figure out how to slice the waterfall with a slicer that calls out the report week by week beginning.
This is the closest resource I found online but I cant get it to work. https://www.pbiusergroup.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=27b12587-eecb-4659-b4d7-8e9a0945a469&CommunityKey=b35c8468-2fd8-4e1a-8429-322c39fe7110&tab=digestviewer
Just wondering has anyone else solved for this?
Thanks
James

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WaterFall Example.pbix (115.0 KB)

Goal
To have the ability to slice a waterfall chart by Week Beginning

Challenge
Currently my weekly slicer does not impact the Waterfall or I am unable to slice between weeks.

Deeper explanation
I would like to be able to slice using week beginning so that the waterfall will interpret the week beginning as the right side value in the waterfall.
The output analysis would be to compare the selected week beginning with the previous week in the waterfall chart.

What I have found to date

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Hi @jsavage,

Thanks for providing a mockup :+1:

I’ve made a couple of changes:

  • Marked your Date table as a Date table
  • Created a relationship between the Date table and you Waterfall data
  • the Week beginning table is now a disconnected table in your model
  • Replaced all dates in visuals by the Date table week beginning date
  • Created that measure for filtering based on the disconnected week beginning selection

with this result.

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Here’s your sample file. WaterFall Example.pbix (105.3 KB)
I hope this is helpful.

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Thanks very much for this elegant solution. This is going to help a lot.

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Melissa I see how you applied the Report Indicator =1 to the filter on visual. Thanks again

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