# How to setup a Slicer-like list on a Dashboard, without values

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**Created:** [April 30, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/how-to-setup-a-slicer-like-list-on-a-dashboard-without-values/2705 "2024-04-30T16:05:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![richj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/richj/32/1412_2.png) [@richj](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/richj)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/how-to-setup-a-slicer-like-list-on-a-dashboard-without-values/2705/1 "2024-04-30T16:05:21Z")

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Hi there, long time no see everyone! Hope all are well.

I have recently seen a video of someone creating a dashboard which contains a widget which contains a list of items from a Dimension. But the list had no values on the right, so it appeared like a Slicer in Excel.  
Sadly, in the video they didn’t explain that part of how they created it.

I get that I could use **Flex** mode, and over-lap widgets to hide the value section with another widget, but I felt there might be an out of hte box method to do this?

Here is an example I found of what I am after:

 ![Dashboard](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/phocassoftware/original/2X/b/b6267227205f5c2e22517b9128703247b586fee2.png)

Happy Dashboard building everyone! 🙂

Rich

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**Author:** ![JonKemp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/jonkemp/32/334_2.png) [@JonKemp](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/JonKemp)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/how-to-setup-a-slicer-like-list-on-a-dashboard-without-values/2705/2 "2024-05-01T10:11:53Z")

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Hi @richj ,  
This is “search” mode. I dont use it as if you have multiple search widgets, they show ALL records and dont filter down. I.e. Country and then Brand, I know Brand A does not exists in “GB” when I filter on the first search widget, it still shows “Brand A” in the second.

I have opted to use total mode with a meaningful value that helps the end user, these widgets DO filter correctly.

I raised this with Phocas a long time ago regarding getting the search to work more like slicers in other products, even Excel slicers are much tidier than Phocas. With the dashboard enhancement work I am hopeful one day we will get more options like this.

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**Author:** ![richj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/richj/32/1412_2.png) [@richj](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/richj)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/how-to-setup-a-slicer-like-list-on-a-dashboard-without-values/2705/3 "2024-05-01T10:50:17Z")

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Many thanks for the reply @JonKemp  
Search Mode! Who would have thought it. 🙂

So far, testing this, it seems to work well for my purposes.  
@JonKemp you are a star.  
👍