Icon Map Slicer documentation

Icon Map Slicer is a map visual for Power BI that filters your report. Put your locations on a map, then select them by click, lasso, radius, travel time or the area in view, and the rest of the report page filters to match. These pages show you how to build a map, how filtering works and what every setting does.

An Icon Map Slicer map in a Power BI report: a lasso selection around a group of circles, which stay bright while the rest fade — Select on the map, and the other visuals on the page filter to your selection

Start here

New to Icon Map Slicer? Read these three pages in order.

1. Add Icon Map Slicer to a reportGet the visual, place it on a page and license it. 2. Build your first mapA step-by-step tutorial with sample data, from an empty visual to a map that filters your report. 3. How it worksThe basemap, data layers and reference layers, how each row finds its layer, and how selecting filters the report.

Filter your report from the map

Selecting on the map applies a filter to the report page, in the same way as a Power BI slicer. The map keeps every item and fades the ones you did not select. Other visuals show only the data for your selection.

How Icon Map Slicer filtersWhat a selection filters, how selected items look, how to clear a selection and how many items you can select. Click, lasso and circle selectSelect items one by one, draw around them, or select everything within a distance. Select everything inside a shapeClick a region or a boundary and select the items inside it. Select by travel timeSelect what can be reached from a point within a drive, walk or cycle time or distance. Filter by the map viewFilter the report to the area the reader has zoomed and panned to.

The Layer Manager

New in 1.1.0.11

The Layer Manager is a dialog that shows everything on your map in drawing order. Use it to add data layers and reference layers step by step, restyle them, drag them into a new order, hide them or remove them. It also tells you how many of your rows each layer draws, and why a layer draws nothing. Every setting it writes is also in the Format pane, so you can move between the two at any time.

The Layer Manager dialog with the list of layers on the left and the home view on the right — The Layer Manager: the layers on the map on the left, what you can do next on the right

Layer ManagerOpen it and take a tour of the dialog. Add a layerThe step-by-step wizard for every layer type. Edit, reorder and remove layersChange styles and the drawing order. Check your dataSee which rows each layer draws, and why some are skipped.

Browse by topic

Get startedAdd the visual to a report, build a first map and learn the concepts. Data layersCircles, images, heatmaps, cells, 3D columns, lines, routes, shapes, vector tiles, ArcGIS and catalog layers. Basemaps and the map viewBasemap styles, the Basemaps dialog, zoom, tilt, globe, terrain and lighting. Reference layersFiles, map tiles, WMS, vector tiles, ArcGIS layers, day and night, and map labels. Labels, tooltips and legendLabel your data, choose what tooltips show and add a legend. Selection and filteringEvery way to select on the map, and how the selection filters the report. Map controlsThe buttons on the map: zoom, tilt, search, globe, scale and the layer control. Settings and referenceThe Format pane card by card, the field wells, conditional formatting and languages. Licensing and purchasingLicense types, the free developer license, license keys and how to buy. HelpTroubleshooting, frequently asked questions, support and release notes.

Icon Map Slicer or Icon Map Pro?

Icon Map Slicer and Icon Map Pro are both full map visuals from Icon Map, and they share most of their layers, labels and styling. They differ in what the map is for.

	Icon Map Slicer	Icon Map Pro
Selecting on the map	Filters the report page, like a Power BI slicer. The filter is saved with the report	Cross-filters or cross-highlights other visuals, like a standard Power BI visual
Ways to select	Click, lasso, circle select, items inside a shape, travel time, and the area in view	Click and lasso
Choice of layers and basemaps	The layers described in this documentation	A wider choice, including more basemap providers, weather and traffic layers and clusters

Many reports use both: Icon Map Pro to show the data, and Icon Map Slicer to choose what the page shows.

Versions and languages

Use the version menu at the top of any page to match the documentation to the version of Icon Map Slicer in your report. The version number is shown on the start page you see when the visual has no fields, and in Format pane > Icon Map Slicer once it has data. What's new lists the main changes in each version. For version 1.1.0.9 and earlier, see the documentation for 1.1.0.9 and earlier.

Icon Map Slicer is available in English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. See Languages.