Deselect all items in a pivot table using vba - vba

Question

Can some quicly explain the way to deselect all items in a newly created pivot table so that I can go back and select only one or two items? I tried the following:
.PivotItems("(Select All)").Visible = False
Thanks.

Answer 1

This is probably the closest you can get to what you want:
Dim i As Long
.PivotItems(1).Visible = True
For i = 2 To .PivotItems.Count
.PivotItems(i).Visible = False
Next
This will make the very first option the only selected option (assuming this is within a with that points to the pivotfield). If you know what you want before hand... modify accordingly.

Answer 2

I've found that looping through each data item takes a lot of time, what you can do if you want to filter on a single item in a pivot without looping through all items is use the following code:
ActiveSheet.PivotTables("Your Pivot Name").PivotFields("Your Field Name").ClearAllFilters
ActiveSheet.PivotTables("Your Pivot Name").PivotFields("Your Field Name").PivotFilters.Add _
Type:=xlCaptionEquals, Value1:="Your string here"
this is basically a label filter but it worked for me.

Answer 3

Check the following out. Select data for specific field name. Please do note that you have to at least select one item by default. And also do not forget that if you want to hide items, Only contiguous items in a PivotTable Field can be hidden. Perhaps at page load, or worksheet open or any of your other sub trigger, you could select a particular items to be selected based on a specific field. Then allow your code to proceed with anything else.
Sub specificItemsField()
Dim pf As PivotField
Dim pi As PivotItem
Dim strPVField As String
strPVField = "Field Name"
Set pt = ActiveSheet.PivotTables(1)
Set pf = pt.PivotFields(strPVField)
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
On Error Resume Next
pf.AutoSort xlManual, pf.SourceName
For Each pi In pf.PivotItems
pi.Visible = True
Next pi
pf.AutoSort xlAscending, pf.SourceName
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Answer 4

This is how I do for custom filter selection. May be slower due to double looping.
Dim toSelect(1 To 3) As String
toSelect(1) = "item1"
toSelect(2) = "item2"
toSelect(3) = "item3"
For Each pvItem In objField.PivotItems
For Each st In toSelect
If pvItem.Value = st Then
pvItem.Visible = True
Exit For
Else
pvItem.Visible = False
End If
Next
Next

Answer 5

Well.
Because you have not how to hide all, because, always you need to have 1 item visible
I do this:
I start hiding the first field, and before go to the next, i show all fields i need visible, then, i go to the secont item, and hide, and again show all items i want, and so on. Then, always will be visible any field, and wont have error.
After the loop, i again try to show all fields i want.
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("TablaD2").PivotFields("Entity")
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 To .PivotItems.Count
.PivotItems(i).Visible = False
.PivotItems("ARG").Visible = True
.PivotItems("BRL").Visible = True
.PivotItems("GCB").Visible = True
.PivotItems("MEX").Visible = True
Next
.PivotItems("ARG").Visible = True
.PivotItems("BRL").Visible = True
.PivotItems("GCB").Visible = True
.PivotItems("MEX").Visible = True
End With