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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 06 Jul 2020 00:07:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

any news?

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Chris on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:19

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We also would like to have the current user pre-selected in a list of multiple users.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:08

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I would like to have the current user pre-selected in a list of multiple users.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:50

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

we are still waiting for this functionality !!

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:49

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We need that the first row in the slicers would be the default row selected

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sunil.tak@bizmetric.com on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:35

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is very important feature. When this will be available?
More than 2500 votes and original idea is shared on March 02, 2015 which s quite long time. When this will be on priority ?

Please provide this feature ASAP as everyone is asking this.

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Vivek on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:03

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We need this for a different purpose than dates. We take monthly snapshots of say our financial forecast and typically the latest one is the one everyone wants to look at while having the ability to switch to another snapshot if needed.
Currently there is no way to default it to the latest one or rather to the one folks care about so we have to kind of force the user to make a selection before going to the report.
Note: Latest or whatever we want to be the default to should be configurable based on logic and not necessarily the latest item in a sorted list.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:54

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is a high-valued propose but seemed to be neglected by the team for 4 years. Pls seriously THINK about it.

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Darren Gosbell on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:47

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I don't think 'Sticky Filters' is the same thing. I want the ability for the date slicers to filter for Dec when it's Dec and Jan when it's Jan. BUT I want the user to be able to change the date filter if they want to with out having to teach them how to change the filter out of relative mode (which most report consumers will not know about). I also want the ability to look up information in a table and set default filters using a DAX expression (but not using RLS, just a default filter selection) so that users in the Sales department see Sales information by default, but they can change to look at other departments. In fact in both these scenarios I would want 'Sticky Filters' off so that when users re-open the report the default filters are active.

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Stewart Hunter on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Is this ever going to be done? Total lack of understanding from Microsoft of the types of issues being faced in the real world.

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