Jacek Power BI User on 03 Mar 2015 07:53:52
Allow a user to set the default value for a slicer or tile-by value on a page/dashboard, so that when the Power View page is opened for the first time, the default value is selected.
eg. If the page has a slicer for Year or Month, allow the user to configure the most recent Year or Month to be selected by default.
Administrator on 20 Oct 2022 22:52:37
Update 10/20/2022 - Update from Mo - we are working on this in the new year
Thanks for everyone's votes and comments. This is a feature on our backlog; however we cannot share a timeline at the moment.
It looks like many of the requests will be addressed by the new 'Sticky filters' capability. Now when you log out of Power BI and come back to a report, the same items will be selected as when you left. For those who're looking to have a 'last month' selection, the relative date slicer might help. Those with comments about currencies where having multiple selected makes the report meaningless - the report will load with whatever selection the author saved, so if you save it with one currency selected your users will see that by default. If there are scenarios that these features don't address, please let us know in your comments - if you are really specific it'll help us build the feature to work just the way you want! Thanks again!
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RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
We need to be able to set up the date of a date slicers to "today", so whenever the user opens-up the report the current day will be filtered.
Bear in mind that is a situation where it's needed to be able to set-up a standard value for the filter (sticky filter won't help at all on that) and also the value that will be fixed as the standard filter option has to be either a measure or a fixed value. We need options!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Is this one still under review? It's such a simple one but it would be so great to have.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Just a categorical preset filter based on RLS please!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Hi Will,
For our reports, we tend to want to set the default "Month" slicer to current month. At the moment we can do that by renaming the most current month to "current month" and having that selected by default, but doing something similar while keeping the month name would be great. For example, would be great to set the slicer to the value of a "max month" measure. That's just one example, but a common one for our teams.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I have a detail report connected to a multi-dimensional SSAS cube that takes way too long to load. What I'd like to do is pre-select the most frequently ordered product in the Product slicer (for the orders report) or the product with the highest inventory (for the inventory report), but I can't see a way to do this without using DAX. Since DAX isn't available to me when connecting live to our cube, I can't use DAX or create measures within Power BI.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Would be great if we as developers could assign default selection for dates filter, based on DAX measure. For example, each passing day the default selection would change to the current day, or a different day based on DAX measure like "last update date" from a fact table.
At the moment this is very frustrating to customers.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Just want to reiterate:
"Sticky Filters" and "Relative date" filter do not address this issue. I am looking for
an option to set the date slicer default value to a calculated measure in the visualization option so that when the report refreshes in PBI Service, the selected date slicer value is updated to the latest value from the measure.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Any word on creating a default value for filters that uses DAX? Basically set the filtered value to TODAY () but don't filter the entire page by that. A date selector for example that defaults to today BUT the user can go back as far as they desire.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I vote for this, and this is very much needed!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Any updates on this? Thanks!