Excel services unsupported feature? Missing pivottable filter field.

I have checke the unsupported features list of Excel Services 2010 (and 2007) but I cannot find anything about this issue:
If one adds a filter to a pivottable, in the Excel 2010 client users are able to filter both by the dimension tree and using a search field for string searches in the same dimension. When viewing the same work book via Excel services the search field is
missing. Can anyone tell me if this indeed is an unsupported feature or if I can do something to get it to show up?

I believe leveraging PowerPivot for SharePoint would resolve this.
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I don't think that's it. I deleted all the powerview reports and worksheets containing pivot tables/charts, and the refresh worked with the function.invoke() call.
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Hi,
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