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
please we need this.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
It's 2021 and we still need this capability in reports!
The requirement that I have for the report - every time when my end-user opens a report - display the range of dates automatically filtered to the "last half-year" and at the same time - when the end-user wants to change that range to 5 years or 8 months- he can do it.
With the relative date slicer, it's not possible, because I can't guess what my end-user wants to see every time when he uses the report.
'Sticky filters' capability - doesn't solve this case too, because every month I want to see different values in default slicers.
Thanks in advance!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
The "sticky filters" capability will not work to handle the idea of a default relative date filter that can easily be changed to a between date period of any length.
Currently, my users have been trained to use the filter pane for dates, and I have enabled the ability to change the filter type. However, the 'is on or after' and 'is on or before' is not as intuitive for the end-users as having a slicer with a slider on it. If I could let them change the SLICER type, I might be good with that solution.
Ideally, my users would like to have a slicer where they can slide to select start and end dates, but have it always 'roll forward' to the most recent period.
Example, user chooses a 12 month period on the slicer, closes the report, and when they re-open a month later, they want the start and end dates to advance a month so that while the report is still showing a 12 month period, it's now a recent 12 months.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is extremely important feature to have in my industry dashboards.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is my explanation:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=e08eb841-1aea-eb11-ba5e-281878e6855d
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
If there's any chance we could configure the default slicer selection with a measure, that'd be awesome! Thanks
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a highly needed function indeed. The default period should just work automatically when an end-user opens a report and then they need to be able to filter for other periods as they need to. Unfortunately, many end-users are not so capable of doing advanced things with filters.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
How does this only have 65 votes??? Seems kind of silly that you can't define a default "parameter."
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please provide a way to dynamically select a default value in a Slicer. For example, if a slicer has 4 quarters and I want the default selection to be the current quarter and let's say I add text "(current)" against the current quarter (based on when the quarter switch is done by our Finance team). If I have an option to set the default value of the slicer to the value that contains "(current)", it will be then fully automated. Currently, I have to manually change the default quarter selection every quarter and if I forget or miss it shows wrong quarter by default.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is extremely important... Specially when dealing with RLS.