This article will walk you through the simple process of replacing an Attribute Slicer in the new Power BI Cost History Dashboard. Below, you will find the instructions in both video and written form.
Prerequisites
The Power BI dashboard shown in this article was released in early 2025. Hosted clients can request the latest Cost History Dashboard by submitting a ticket to Support.
To complete the steps in this guide, you will need:
- Power BI Desktop version installed on your PC
- Hosted clients will need to be whitelisted for direct access to their database (contact support if you need to be whitelisted).
Video Instructions
Written Instructions
- Open the Cost History dashboard in power bi desktop.
- Select the Project Selection tab at the bottom.
- Expand the 'Estimate PropertyDataDetails Pivoted for Slicers' Table to show a full list of the properties that are available.
- In the below example, we are going to replace the 'Building Structure' slicer with the 'Designer' property. To do this, we simply drag-and-drop the Designer property onto the Building Structure slicer.
- After doing this, you will observe that both the 'Building Structure' and 'Designer' properties are listed in the 'Field' list on the right:
- Click the small 'x' next to the property that you wanted to replace, in this case 'Building Structure' to remove it from the Field list. You will see that this will cause the slicer to be automatically renamed to reflect the one remaining Property that it now represents:
The process is now complete, and your newly configure slicer is ready for filtering projects.