Multicolumn filtering in dashboards

Dear Expert's,
I am stuck with a problem while designing my dasboard.
I have data in the following format.
Year - Quarter - Customer - Division - KF1 - KF2
2005 - Q1 - SAP - Consulting - 10 - 20
2005 - Q2 - IDE - Food - 20 - 10
2005 - Q2 - SAP - Jets - 12 - 11
2006 - Q2 - RAM - Jets - 11 - 11
What i wish to do, is to create radio box(for selection) to choose any Year, Quarter , Customer & Division
eg if the user chooses 2005 , i want to display 3 line entries
2005 - Q1 - SAP - Consulting - 10 - 20
2005 - Q2 - IDE - Food - 20 - 10
2005 - Q2 - SAP - Jets - 12 - 11
if the user further selects quarter - Q2 (without disturbing the selection on for year ) the result should be
2005 - Q2 - IDE - Food - 20 - 10
2005 - Q2 - SAP - Jets - 12 - 11
If the selection from year is removed (still maintaining the selection on quarter Q2 ) the result should show
2005 - Q2 - IDE - Food - 20 - 10
2005 - Q2 - SAP - Jets - 12 - 11
2006 - Q2 - RAM - Jets - 11 - 11
Simply i need to create a filer for all the fields.
The issue that i am facing with filer component is that - 1 - it returns only one desitnation row , 2 - you can only get Key values in result set
Issue with combo box is i cannot select multiple fields (dimensions) using it .
Please suggets .
Thanks in Advance

Hi Bose,
I have worked on the similar scenario. As you have mentioned in the above query, by using filter component, result will be a single row data and that too it gets only key values. It is the component behavior.
Steps for implementing Multicolumn Filtering in Dashboards
1. Insert 4 combo boxes into the canvas.
2. For 1st combo box, map labels to year column data, map all columns data (including year column) as source and map required number of rows for destination with equal number of columns as in source.
3. For 2nd combo box, map the Quarter column data from the destination of 1st combo box, map the complete destination of 1st combo box as source and map required number of rows for destination with equal number of columns as in source.
4. For 3rd combo box, map the Customer column data from the destination of 2nd combo box, map the complete destination of 2nd combo box as source and map required number of rows for destination with equal number of columns as in source.
5. For 4th combo box, map the Division column data from the destination of 3rd combo box, map the complete destination of 3rd combo box as source and map required number of rows for destination with equal number of columns as in source.
6. This 4th combo box destination will be your required data with all columns which you can use for displaying through charts or spreadsheets.
You can go through the attached image in which you can find how I have arranged data in my spreadsheet for combo boxes source and destination.
In my Dashboard I have filtered Year, Plant, Month & Product Category. But scenario is similar. Keep posting if you find any difficulty in implementing this method.

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