Custom SQL queries with filters

Is it possible to specify custom SQL query like using SQL Lab but with an opportunity to apply interactive FilterBox to it?

It would be really nice in tasks where you have to visualize aggregative metrics. For example, if you have smth like that: user1, log1, user2, log2, … userN, logM

And you want to plot a distribution of counters of logs for users in a following way:

SELECT counter, COUNT(*)
FROM
(SELECT user, COUNT(*) AS counter 
FROM table_name 
WHERE conditions_from_interactive_filter_box 
GROUP BY user
) AS foo
GROUP BY counter;

If I am not mistaken you can not do it directly from Superset slices but it is a very common case.

[thuylevn]

Hi all, I am using superset. Do you know how to Get value of Grain in filter from a query ( as a parameter {{ ??? }} )?

[ksaagariconic]

Hello there - We had a huge stack of our reports built using 0.20.4 which let us use custom filters that were not part of the data source in our queries, and now when we upgrade to 0.24.3 or higher we find that these custom filters are rejected or made blank at the jinja_parser stage.

Question - Is there a reason this change was done to exclude external custom filters, because we are wondering if there has been a more elegant and cleaner way to do this?

We are concerned that this feature might have been completely deprecated which sometimes aggravates our use cases by pulling a lot more data at every pull and making all the dashboards slower. Can someone please help? Thank you!