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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!

Comments (535)

Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:07

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This Idea is extremely important for my clients
it is basic in a bi tool

Russell Larkin on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:56

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Ideally would be able to set the default value of a filter based on another value, e.g., select year where 'Is Current Year' equals 1.

Julien Simon on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:33

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please add this feature

Marc on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:04

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I need this feature to.

John on 05 Jul 2020 23:07:56

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I'd like to ensure the default value enhancement isn't restricted to date-values, which is a common scenario. Other scenarios are selection from a list of values e.g. currency codes. If the multiple ccy codes are selected e.g. no slicer value is selected, the report is meaningless since amounts of different ccy's can't be aggregated. If a single value is selected at development time but does not exist in the dataset at runtime, the report will be blank.
We need the ability to select an initial value from a column, first, last, whatever.