on 18 May 2017 19:35:34
This is a repost of my idea that was closed as completed, but the 'relative date slicer doesn't allow any of the described request hence my idea is not implemented....
The new date slicer is awesome, but it would be so nice if you could set a dynamic date selection instead of a static. With a static filter the user will always have to set the dates before the saved report makes sense - especially as the report gets older.
Dynamic options could be
YTD, QTD, MTD, WTD, Today, This Year, This Quarter, This Month, This Week and so on.
original idea: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17004565-dynamic-date-slicer
Administrator on 16 Jun 2017 23:57:11
The relative date slicer (a Preview feature as of June '17) gets us close to this with the 'This Month' or 'This Year' settings. That is a dynamic date selection that updates based on the current system date. We plan to add a 'YTD'/'MTD' option to specifically select a range from the start of the month/year up to today, hopefully that'll address the remaining requirements!
- Comments (89)
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Filtering by Quarter is definitely needed feature. If we could also include the ability to exclude relative dates that would be great.
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Can you please include an option to indicate the start day of weeks as well? Currently in the slicer, the weeks are always starting on Sundays. But according to the ISO standard, weeks start on Mondays.
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
New slicer is awesome, it handles many scenarios, but not everything, unfortunately.
When it is saved in "relative" mode (preferable for us), user can't change it back to "between", so cannot select "3 months ago", "2 years ago" etc. I don't think it is possible to cover all required "relative periods", so would be great to give users an option to switch it back to "between" mode.
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Using the relative date filter is nice, however it's not really useful until you present the option for the end user to alter the reference date.
For example:
If I set the relative date filter to "Last 1 Days" and turn "Include today" Off in the Format pane I expect to get the figures for Yesterday. However If I would like to see the figures for another historical day, I am unable to do so without changing to another kind of date slicer, and that is not possible if I'm only a report consumer not working in PBI Desktop.
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Need a pre-defined slice for Yesterday, and possible some way to exclude today.
Last ... 1 ... Days gets you today. To me, today is day 0, and last 1 day would be yesterday. To get to Yesterday I have to select Last ... 2 ... Days, but that INCLUDES today.
Need a way to slice for Weeks as well.
Maybe choices for "Calendar Week (Sun. start)" and "Calendar Week (Mon start)"
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Quarter is definitely needed. Quarter is mandatory for our analysis !
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Where is this? Been in preview since June??
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
The addition of Quarter is important and has been lacking.
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
Any update here? The last one is 6 months old ...
RE: Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)
It would be nice to have the date/time stamp after separating be available for a slicer as well. I have several reports that need to be sliced in quarters of the shift (say 7 to 3:30) and as you can separate the date/time - when slicing the time, it just shows up as a date/time. The end result would allow the developer to use the relative date then slice the time accordingly.