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Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

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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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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:38:00

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is a feature we need for sure.

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Darryl Dsouza on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:58

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I think what we are basically looking for is for the same functionality that we have in a single select parameter in an SSRS report.

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Sherry R. on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:49

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We really need this!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:27

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

the issue with the current slicer is that if you untick the selection it defaults to all, even if single selection is enabled. We need an option which forces the slicer to be something even if it just defaults to the first value it finds.

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Michael Shparber on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:52

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Much needed! Thanks!

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Elishai Wine on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:52

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Yes! very good!

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Chad T on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:49

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is essential for any orgs using row-level security and any sort of slicers. Pretty inelegant for users to initially log into a report with blank data, then having to user the slicer to unlock what they have permissions to see.

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Luiz Mendes on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:36

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I prefer that always have one selected value in the filter, without the option of been with all the values and also not allow unselect a value.

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Karol on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Up, add this please. Its boring, when i have a lot of dashboards and cannot see current for example month on slicer after opening report.

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Andrew T. on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:23

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This would be useful for reports that have date slicers for them. In most cases Today () or Yesterday () would be the most reasonable default.

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