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A logistics company uses Power BI to visualize delivery routes. The report includes a map visual showing delivery locations and a table detailing each delivery. The company needs to ensure that when a user selects a specific delivery location on the map, the table automatically scrolls and highlights the corresponding delivery entry. Which Power BI feature facilitates this precise linking between visuals?
- ASetting a drill-through page from the map to the table.
- BBookmarks for specific selections.
- CCross-highlighting through 'Edit interactions'.
- DUsing a synchronized slicer for delivery locations.
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Correct answer: C. Cross-highlighting through 'Edit interactions'.
Cross-highlighting, configured via 'Edit interactions', allows a selection in one visual (the map) to highlight the corresponding data points in another visual (the table) while keeping the full context of the table visible. This is ideal for drawing attention to specific entries without completely filtering out other data.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Drill-through would navigate to a new page, which is not the desired behavior of updating the table on the current page.
- B. Bookmarks save the state of a report, but don't provide dynamic highlighting based on a user's selection.
- D. A synchronized slicer filters data, but the request is to 'scroll and highlight', implying a partial emphasis rather than a full filter, which is what cross-highlighting does.
Power BI Cross-Highlighting
An interaction behavior in Power BI where selecting data points in one visual dims the unselected data in other visuals while emphasizing the corresponding selected data, maintaining context.
- Controlled via 'Edit interactions'.
- Emphasizes selected data without filtering out other data.
- Useful for showing relationships within a broader context.
Memory trick: Highlight your selections, see the context still, cross-highlighting, a visual skill.