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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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Paul on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:50

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I have a slicer which I want to default to the user's name, with the slicer field being a list of other user's names, so it would be helpful if the slicer's default could be set via the value of a measure.

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Amy DeCosmo on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:40

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This idea show's "under review" since Feb 8, 2018. Any closer to making this a reality?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:23

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is a basic requirement. Customers want to have a default value but also wants to have all others values available.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:18

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We need the ability to use a date range (not relative dates) and to set default values programmatically. Relative dates rarely give our users what they need and sticky filters don't resolve this at all. Date ranges that are stuck as a default end up stale for old date ranges. Using Power BI Report Server.

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supriya on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:13

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Hi we have requirement to have default value in the slicer like current month and show rest of the months in the drop down. Please implement this because of this feature we are not able migrate our reports from obiee to power BI.

Functionality: Set Default value in the slicer as current quarter and the dropdown should show rest of the quarters.

**Slicer should have option to set default value based on another column or by using parameters or DAX function.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:36

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Why it is taking too long to implement such a nice and simple feature. At lease give an option to select max/min/first/last value of any data type.

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Sravanthi Yerroju on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:32

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

we need default slicers selection.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:24

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please implement this one as this is required in many of dashboards , users always want default slicer to be fromdate to Today

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Nadav on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:21

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please add this feature. My clients keep ask for it. Thanks

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:10

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

What's the status with this? It's an imperative piece of functionality and we will be moving BI providers if we can't achieve

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