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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RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I would need to be able to default the slicer to a certain period, for example the prior period. I still need to have an option to select other periods as needed. The reason is that the previous period is needed 95% of the time, but the remaining 5% of the time they the user would look at other periods.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a very important request
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I would need a default for last month or quarter but without using the relative date filter.
The reason is that the users need to be able to select a specific quarter years back while still allowing the report to always display the current quarter. While a relative date slicer solves the later it means that we need to add another date slicers that the users need to uncheck revert time they want to go back to say Q2 2017.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is critical.
The only workaround for now is to change the slicer value each day/week/month/year, save and republish. In a controlled production environment requiring a Change Request to promote production changes - too much operational overhead. Must address.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a critical update in my opinion.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Many customers are asking about Synchronizable Calendar Slicers where you can default to yesterday's day for example. And have a Calendar Widget to choose 'ONE' day only, instead of a pair of dates.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Another request is to be able to pass a date parameter to the Sync Calendar control and determine current value for the date(s)
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Could we get a new format category (General/Selection controls/ DEFAULT VALUE / .) on slicers, which allows for a value/formula/based on another field. to define the default. Eg. default value = value in this field (CurrentFY = "FY2019/20"); if default value field doesn't match a value in the slicer list, no valid default.
Relative date slicers don't work for financial years when they differ from the calendar year. We flag the Current Day/Week/Month/Financial Year time period with a column (physical/calculated/measure doesn't matter), and have a slicer be able to default to that value based on that "Current (time period)" field. The user may want to select another non-default item from the slicer, but it should default to the specified value when opened/reset.
A filtered slicer doesn't help here, because it will limit the slicer selection to only the Current (time period).
The only workaround for now is to change the slicer value each day/week/month/year, save and republish. In a controlled production environment requiring a Change Request to promote production changes, this is not feasible for such small, regular changes.
Similarly this would help the default currency people, where there could be a different default for each region or even user, based on another column/measure/formula. Remember, we're just trying to make users' lives easier.
Thanks for all your hard work on this product. It IS appreciated.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Being New to power BI, I am finding a number of things really difficult in comparison with Reporting Services. The Defaulting an entry from a list is one of the features that I am really missing, as we used to use it heavily for automation. Please add this as a feature Thanks
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Hi Guys,
Do you have plans to develop it?
It would be really appreciated as now we have to change the slicer each time.
The report was saved with "!" one, bus with row level security do not allow some users to see "1" - they should see only "2". When this option is implemented we can indicate with DAX what should be the one selected by default.
Thanks,
Regards,
Szymon