Who is this article for?

Users responsible for building and maintaining portal pages / visualisations that require slicers to be included

Available slicer types are determined by the data type for that field

1. Open a page where you use slicers in Designer
2. Hover over the slicer until the black settings icon appears ( ▼ icon)

3. Select Slicer

4. Save the visualisation

Type of Slicer

Whilst there is no right or wrong setting, the structure should be set with below in mind.

• Date Range

  This allows the slicer to be presented a style that the user can enter a start and end date to return results from that time-period. This slicer is only available for fields where the data is type is "Date" An example of this format is shown below

  

• Buttons

  This allows the slicer to be presented a style that the user see a 'list version' of all the options available end select specific options. Note how the buttons are set to differing lengths dependant on the specific label.

  

• Slider

  This allows the slicer to be presented a style that represents a slider that the user can use to set a specific range of returns. Moving the sliders start / end points to decrease/increase the returns (i.e. IDs 2 - 9)
   

• Select List

  Like buttons, this allows the slicer to be presented a style that the user see a 'list version' of all the options available Note how the buttons are all equal lengths (unlike the buttons)

  

• Dropdown

  The most common type of slicer. The dropdown takes up less space and can be configured to allow the user to select one option OR multiple options.

  

• Hierarchy

  A hierarchy allows the user to determine results based on a 'like' or 'is not like' argument. User can also specify selected items and/or return records with blank values

• Text

  A useful slicer type to allow the textual entry of a search term. This can be used for searching specific terms / words (e.g. within a description) Use the wildcard (*) to broaden the search based on the text

  

• Exact Value

  Like text, this allows the slicer to be presented textual format but will only return results that match the EXACT variable of all the options available. Note wildcards are not supported with exact value - unless the asterisk is included in the search term (e.g. *Falls)

  

• First x Unique Values

  Can be used to search for variable that are the top x values (i.e. 10) 

  

  

   

• Last x Unique Values

  Can be used to search for variable that are the bottom x values (i.e. 10)

   

  

9. Click OK