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
Not sure the new feature will cover this use case:
Have a SLICER with the current date already selected by default (still having the possibility to change the date).
The difficulty is that the current date could be based on the user Timezone or another selected filter. We are not using your filter pane because this pane is missing other features like Hierarchy filtering.
So basically this option to default select a value in a filter should be based on a dynamic function.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I have raised a support ticket & got a response from MS team. Currently this feature is still in review and don't have an ETA when it will be available. Most of the times, feature upgrades will be finalized on market analysis, feedback from users, development effort etc, factors.
So, other than waiting we don't have any other option. Hoping MS team will pick this up soon.
But, I found a work around to implement this logic. If you are embedding your reports into an application, make use of "Set Slicer State" before loading the report.
You can try this option in this link - https://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-JavaScript/demo/v2-demo/index.html#
Hope this helps.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Hello Micosoft, this issue has been kicked around from 2 or 3 years ago already and still we can't get any dynamic default value of a slicer. It's a very common requirement , for instance, we just need the date slicer to use last sunday as the default value. I don't know where is the challenge for microsoft to bring this up . the newest version of PBI is 21 Jan 2021 but we still couldn't get this basic function . no work around please! Just need one default value based on formula of a slicer.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
It would be nice to also have the toggle option to force the slicer to always have at least one filter aktivated. This is a very important option if you have a lot of data points in your visual. Otherwise the user would choke on information overflow.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Any update on this please !! This is a very basic / standard feature.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Why does this even need to be requested? Its a STANDARD of every predecessor.
This is one of the things that knock the wind out of developers and invertors and IT Directors.
Logically, the only one path which is a conspiracy which is a fake word that some US Department came up when someone hit the nail on the head but they cant / wont divulge the truth (10+% of the time - Right)
"Conspiracy" ~Is it because developers also make and sell custom controls on the side ?
Just trim some of the code on the existing controls and let us design / develop and sell your product.
Respectfully.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Example use case:
Have the Date Range Slicer default to Today() or to Yesterday() or to some other some other default start and end date (as supplied by a DAX expression)
Currently, it's not possible to display a date range slicer and have the range default to some value. The negative result is that users must set the date ranges for each report run (rather than having sane defaults).
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please add this feature, if we could set the start date to be current month it helps reduce load time when users first open a report or reset filters to default, and users could still select other date range if required.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please add this.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
There is a similar idea with more votes here
Lets keep the votes in one place to speedup the urgency for this feature.
Thanks!
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