Using Visual Interactions to Filter Another Visual in QuickSight

Hi @JoannaB and welcome back to the Quick Community!
I understand this pain point as it seems to be a limitation that many encounter. I found this older community post that covered a similar scenario. To my understanding, there is no great work around within the system, but instead would need to adjust your dataset:

Additionally though, as this is a topic that has come up more than once, I agree this would be an extremely useful feature addition so I’ll mark this as a feature request to promote visibility to the support team.