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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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c356b046 2755-49d3-9f50-8aeffdd4ebe0 on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:34

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

It would still be nice to dynamically set this, so that we could dynamically pre-filter to a User's dept...even if they have never visited the report to set up their filters

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70b86fdd 02d2-46e4-bad3-66cee90e6ae8 on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

any news?

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04b19fe3 5745-4f41-9c85-ca938a4891c4 on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:19

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We also would like to have the current user pre-selected in a list of multiple users.

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7cf60fd2 3630-4efa-ac74-72cd3cc475e7 on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:08

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I would like to have the current user pre-selected in a list of multiple users.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:50

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

we are still waiting for this functionality !!

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 06 Jul 2020 00:06:49

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We need that the first row in the slicers would be the default row selected

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87b2b22d db5a-4c5a-9c95-a286daf41e86 on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:35

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is very important feature. When this will be available?
More than 2500 votes and original idea is shared on March 02, 2015 which s quite long time. When this will be on priority ?

Please provide this feature ASAP as everyone is asking this.

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aeb9fa06 0e52-4428-aaab-4bb056a3f9a8 on 06 Jul 2020 00:05:03

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We need this for a different purpose than dates. We take monthly snapshots of say our financial forecast and typically the latest one is the one everyone wants to look at while having the ability to switch to another snapshot if needed.
Currently there is no way to default it to the latest one or rather to the one folks care about so we have to kind of force the user to make a selection before going to the report.
Note: Latest or whatever we want to be the default to should be configurable based on logic and not necessarily the latest item in a sorted list.

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54a6fe7d ac43-46c8-ab68-ae2ec7e00e0a on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:54

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

This is a high-valued propose but seemed to be neglected by the team for 4 years. Pls seriously THINK about it.

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5322a1c0 66ab-4936-8558-fade89446447 on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:47

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I don't think 'Sticky Filters' is the same thing. I want the ability for the date slicers to filter for Dec when it's Dec and Jan when it's Jan. BUT I want the user to be able to change the date filter if they want to with out having to teach them how to change the filter out of relative mode (which most report consumers will not know about). I also want the ability to look up information in a table and set default filters using a DAX expression (but not using RLS, just a default filter selection) so that users in the Sales department see Sales information by default, but they can change to look at other departments. In fact in both these scenarios I would want 'Sticky Filters' off so that when users re-open the report the default filters are active.