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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!

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b95f099a 1837-4603-a3dd-761b3de759c0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:50

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

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d6e133db d7a0-4dac-a021-1c9ce8cd2820 on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:22

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?

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c560fa8d f2de-40da-ba22-03243b9ebdbf on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:12

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.

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0e65e36c 37dd-4f43-9d32-0baa1db8dbdd on 05 Jul 2020 22:49:05

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

A must!

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fe7a78db a073-4074-aacf-55ceb212fe6e on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:42

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Also slicer with option to require to have selection, so it cannot be blank, something must be selected.

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08063afd ca37-40c2-86bf-2ae4974e1059 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:34

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

please please!!

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20c4ecb0 aac2-451c-8cae-638919d94b78 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:12

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please add this feature

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861e8b29 22e3-4f4a-bc39-cce9418a58ce on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:12

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Please, I need this feature

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56c8ee0e d670-4ba6-bdda-db5485b07fa3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:48:04

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I have 2 slicers. Based on one slicer, the seconder slicer would be filtered and second slicer is single select. Now i need to default item as first item as selected in the second slicer. Is it possible ?

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d0ba437f 88ae-4c19-8764-853ef82e4b2a on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:47

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This would be a very nice feature and not only for date values, but other values.
For example division name possibly tied to role security somehow.