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 are still waiting for that ability !! We really need it
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
For example, in a date slicer by default StartDate and EndDate should be Today after each daily scheduled refresh.
This is a critical requirement.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
We also require this feature for a lot of customer cases!
For example, we want to compare today's with yesterday's performance but the user should still be able to change the slicer date. Therefore a solution is highly appreciated without fixing the date manually.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is also a serious deficiency in being able to use RLS effectively. Right now a slicer will attempt to use a default value that has been filtered out by RLS (and thusly load no data into the report by default). That's ridiculous. Either Slicers need to correctly default to values they can actually utilize, or this could be implemented so that you could setup a DAX Measure that feeds a default slicer value based on what is available in RLS. There's a bunch of inelegant hacks around this right now that I would rather not implement.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
When our client opens the report after an overnight refresh, s/he would definitely like to see today's data as soon as the report is opened. Not yesterday's. Unfortunately, the slicer cannot be set to a default value of TODAY () and therefore this is a very important feature and I am surprised when its missing, after all these years.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I would find it very useful in a number of reports to be able to have a default value in a date slicer set to be today's date.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I need the ability to set a default relative date (e.g. the last 30days) but have the slicer sent to between. The relative date slicer does not work for many reports.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I need to be able to default a date slicer to a "Current (time period)". And then give the user the ability to select another non-default item from the slicer, but it should default to the specified value when opened/reset.
This is highly needed!
Thanks!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Yes, this idea is critical. For example there are some reports where we would love to default the department to that user's department automatically. Having the ability to dynamically change the default would solve this. Similar to how it works in SSRS, you can return the value you want to use in another data set. I foresee where in Power BI you could do something similar. We have attempted to use Row level security and work around it by basically populating a table with every single possible slicer value for every user and then just setting the default to "My Dept." or something like that...but it's not very salable as more users start.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I would need to be able to default the slicer to a certain period, for example the prior period. I still need to have an option to select other periods as needed. The reason is that the previous period is needed 95% of the time, but the remaining 5% of the time they the user would look at other periods.