Labels Slicer

Let your users choose which labels to show

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A chart that plots Sales, Cost, and Profit together looks great until you switch every data label on — then the numbers pile up, overlap, and fight the lines for space. The tidy answer is to let readers label only what they care about: a little button per measure, where picking one or two shows just those labels and picking none keeps the chart clean. Every line and bar stays exactly where it is — you're only toggling the labels, not adding or removing series. Building that by hand is fiddly, though — you need a small table to drive the buttons, a toggle measure behind every series, the per-series label wiring that Power BI hides away in the visual file, a button slicer styled to match the page, and interaction rules so the buttons don't disturb the rest of the page.

This skill builds the whole thing in one go, and it never touches your axis, title, or series colors — only the labels — run it with /labels-slicer.

It's the companion to the Measure Slicer: where that one removes the unselected measures from the chart, this one keeps every series drawn and only shows or hides their labels.

How it works

Type /labels-slicer, point it at your chart, and it does the rest:

  1. Looks at your chart — finds the measures on the Y-axis, the measure table, and how the page's slicers are styled

  2. Suggests short labels — a two-letter abbreviation per measure (TS for TotalSales, TC for TotalCost), which you can accept or rename

  3. Confirms one thing — which folder the new measures should live in (default: _LabelSlicer)

  4. Builds toggle measures — one behind each series that shows its data label only when its button is selected

  5. Wires up the labels — points each series' data label at its toggle, and turns the chart's label layer on so the buttons can drive it

  6. Drops in the buttons — a compact multi-select slicer in the chart's top-right corner, styled to match your page

  7. Leaves the chart alone — the Y-axis, title, subtitle, and series colors are never changed

  8. Keeps it tidy — the buttons only affect this one chart, and nothing else on the page can change them

  9. Follows bookmarks — if the chart shows and hides with a bookmark, the buttons are grouped with it so they come and go together

What you get

  • A row of label buttons — a compact multi-select slicer in the chart's top-right corner, matching your page style

  • Pick-what-you-want behaviour — select one or two buttons to label just those series; select nothing to keep the chart clean with no labels

  • Every series stays drawn — lines and bars never disappear; you're only toggling whether each one carries a label

  • Toggle measures — one per series, so the right labels appear for whatever's selected

  • An untouched chart — the axis, title, subtitle, and colors are left exactly as you had them

  • Clean interactions — the buttons drive only this chart and stay out of everyone else's way

  • Bookmark grouping — set up for you when the chart is shown and hidden by a bookmark

Tool Information

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39 USD

Bundle (All skills)

129 USD

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Version 3.2.2.2

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