can we make a filter for fact
# gd-beginners
g
can we make a filter for fact
f
Hi, Gaurav. As the article Filter explains, filters can only be created from attribute values, metric values, and dates. It is not possible to filter directly for a fact.
1
t
Hello @Francisco Antunes I’m’following up on this, would you have a recommendation to implement it though ? I’ve got a visualisation with a few facts that I would like to filter with a dropdown select, the only way I found is to create multiple visualisations. It works but does not feel optimal. Thanks in advance!
f
Hi @Thomas Delissen, in this case you should be able to filter them as metrics. This is a bit of a semantic point, but facts are usually added in insights once they’ve undergone some aggregation - the simplest of which is SUM - so they are technically metrics, albeit very simple ones. So while you can’t filter by an isolated fact, you can utilize some filtering to their resulting metric values. I tried to illustrate the process on the screenshots below, take a look 🙂
t
I see, I will give it a try, thanks for your prompt answer!
1