[GitHub] srimalj commented on issue #2890: Drill Down in Superset

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srimalj commented on issue #2890: Drill Down in Superset
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/issues/2890#issuecomment-453300712
 
 
   Hi All
   
   First of all I have found Superset to be a very useful opensource BI tool.
   
   But I have to agree with the original poster that, that this type of cross-filter support (or drill down as mentioned above) is a badly needed feature.
   
   I think some of the older Superset (or was it caravel at the time) had limited support for crossfiltering with pivot tables but it seems this feature was dropped in subsequent releases.
   
   Just to add to the last comment:
   
   > Which another project are you referring to for drill down?
   
   Most commercial BI tools such as Tableau and PowerBI support crossfiltering out of the box. 
   And the open source javascript library dc.js has this functionality out of the box.
   
   Doesn't Superset use dc.js too?
   
   I'm not fully aware of the Superset architecture to comment, but its a pity if this feature is dc.js has this ability and Superset doesn't.
   
   Superset would be a great alternative to commercial tools if we could have crossfiltering support. 
   
   Cross filtering in Superset  could initially be a limited to a subset of widgets to start with, perhaps with an option to turn it on and off for each dashboard. This is  in case users do not want to have it on for certain dashboards.
   
   Cheers

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