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
Missing this basic feature is hampering adoption of the PBI dashboards. If the data in a dashboard is difficult to force to be current by applying a default, and you have to click the dashboard to get to the report to filter for current data, then the dashboard is nearly useless.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please, please, please
The suggestions around of having a calculated measure for "current month" are "cute" but not like the robust way for example in Reporting Services where each parameter can have a default value.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
That would be a great help (y)
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This would be a great help in most of the reports we are using.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I am new to Power BI but quickly seeing the need / desirability of setting a default value for a slicer - particularly dates.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I keep trying to make PowerBI work like SSRS rdl files.
I used to be able create a parameter with a dynamic value and then set report filters to that dynamic value as a default but still allow my end users to have the ability to explore previous months and years
I see that PowerBI thinks filtering the data by value is a solution...but I don't believe this will work as I'm intending.
Being able to not only set the default value of a slicer but also make that value dynamically, would be essential. Not nice. ESSENTIAL.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
The slicer should be able to set the default value. For example, I have a list of all companies and a slicer on the active (yes/no) column. It would be nice to default to Yes so that active companies appear and have the option to display all or non active companies
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Slicer should have ability to select Default date and value of the default date can be assigned any custom date or Today, yesterday or tomorrow or any combination, i have been working in Pentaho for 2 years now and they have a solid date range control, which is amazing, Slicer should have straight fwd options like:
1. Today
2. Yesterday
3. Last week
4. Current week
5. Last Month
6. Current Month
7. Last Year
8. Current Year
9.Year to date
10. Specific date
11. Date Between
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Does anyone from Microsoft look at these pages? This was first requested in 2015. How long must we wait?
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Need it. Example would be a date parameter set to MAX as day over day that will change.