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Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

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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 09 Feb 2018 03:54:31

We're looking into this request, thanks for everyone's votes and comments. 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!

Comments (386)

Comments (386)

9a752338 6ee6-442b-bdd0-6bc64c93115a on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:18

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please do it

c5989781 341c-44b8-8c97-6e53399369a3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:10

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

The ability to set the slicer to the current month automatically would be a big win. Please add!

92115fbf 3928-447b-87e4-a60a55fbbad0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:01

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This isn't a "nice to have", but a "must have". I can't believe this basic functionality isn't already included. What is worse is that it was first requested 2 1/2 years ago - an absolute lifetime in software development.

5ae9de17 4bec-4736-a670-bf8770528b25 on 05 Jul 2020 22:57:01

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We are implementing the tool actually.
Is it bug or failure ?
We are not able to define setting default slicer values upon opening, and setting dynamic values such as current month ?