Time Needed : 3 minutes

For dashboard/report viewers, here is how to use a metric slider to filter a chart by a specific metric value.

1. Open a new report in Google Data Studio and add a “Table” chart type.

   You can use an existing report if you want to follow with your own data.

2. Toggle the “Metric sliders” button and then click on the “View” button

   2.1 Once you enable the “Metric sliders”, you would notice that the “Optional metrics” would disappear; you can only have one at a time. 2.2 Also, in order to interact with the slider, you would have to switch to “View ” mode.

3. Hover over the chart and click on the filter icon to open the “Metric sliders”

   3.1 You can drag the ends of the slider to adjust the range of the values you want to filter for.3.2 If you want to set the upper and lower bounds to specific values, you can click on each number and type the values right away.

4. Optional: Edit the chart once more and add multiple metrics to the slider

   You can always add addition metrics to the chart and the slider will auto-update. It is also important to know that if you filter by one metric, this would not affect the other metrics in the chart.