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
Hi Power BI team, can you provide an update of when you might be able to slot this in? This was added to idea board back in on 3/3//2015. That was over 7 years ago. What's the point of posting ideas that get pushed to the top of the vote list if you are just going to ignore them and do nothing?
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Every client we work with has requested this, also it looks like thousands of other PowerBI users have requested this as well. This would be a great addition to PowerBI, sooner the better!!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Since it's the top idea on the "Microsoft Ideas" page for Power BI, maybe it will be implemented soon? Right now, the first of every month we have to go into every report and manually update the dates. Every new report, I still have to do this because we display reports last 12 calendar months (including the current month). The relative date slicer can't accommodate this logic.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
since 2015 ? :D
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Yes please
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
We are still waiting ( from 2019 !!! ) for this indispensable option !!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Is there any update from Microsoft on when this will be implemented? I want to have a "between" date slice default to the prior 13 months (inclusive of the current month). But then I want the user to be able to change it if they would like, so a page level filter will not work.
For example, if today is 4/16/22, I would like the slicer to show:
From: 4/1/2021 To: 4/30/2022
Is there anyway to control the dates by default planned (besides the relative slicer, which also doesn't accomplish this in any event)?
Thank you!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a very basic requirement as far as I am concerned. I would love to be able to set a slicer default based on the identity of the user. For example, if we have a region slicer, I would like the slicer to default to the home region of the user. We have a way to identify the user and their home region but no way to use that to set the slicer default. Unless I am missing something.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I can't believe this feature is still not available. This is one of the first requirements from the business!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
It would also be good to have this default selection available for calculation group items.
I have a use case where we have energy customers with gas and power profiles where volumes are measured in kWh in both cases, or MW for power and Tpd (Therms per day) for gas. We have slicers for both the profile type and volume unit (both single select only).
The 3 different volume units are in a calculation group and we would like kWh to be the default, so when a customer toggles between Power and Gas in the profile type slicer, the calculation group slicer always reverts the selection to kWh.
Currently if a user has Gas and Tpd selected, for instance, and then toggles to power, the volume unit stays as Tpd despite the fact power cannot be measured in Tpd. The user has to remember to then also toggle the volume unit. This can be confusing for new users and can't think of any other workaround, so please may you consider this when developing this feature.