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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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d91de17d 040e-456d-a9e3-44bfe78ee14b on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Is this ever going to be done? Total lack of understanding from Microsoft of the types of issues being faced in the real world.

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1eb4431d 9f0d-43e7-89cf-cf8ecbf971d5 on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:22

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I, too, need the ability to have date slicers in my reports default to the latest/max date (which is not necessarily today or yesterday).

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90bf4689 aac6-4844-968e-51aa374c675e on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:08

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Just adding to the 326 comments before me: This need is not yet adressed! Frankly the pinned Admin-comment regarding new feautures completely misses the mark in terms of delivering a default slicer range.

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dcdef68b 36c3-4251-92af-ec2c5eaa9ad2 on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:49

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Hi, here is my scenario. I have users all around the world. They need to see how other regions are performing, however, they have their own region. When an user enters the dropdown list with the regions should preselect user's region. I have tried several scenarios with RLS but it has been futile.

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196b087c 1950-4b70-895f-ed4e69179545 on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:14

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Power BI is a wonderful thing, but some of the simple things my users are used to in Excel aren't yet possible. This needs to be fixed to get people to accept the change from Excel to PBI.

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e39ca5e1 72fe-4995-b747-6398cba35e33 on 06 Jul 2020 00:03:04

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Can't believe this has not been implemented yet!

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751126d3 2be8-430e-b1f4-89aac46be2ad on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:59

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

None of the existing features addresses the issue - we need the latest date from the dropdown to be selected when we open the report. It seems very logical feature and surprisingly its not there. With relative filters - many of our users find them not so straight forward to use although we did use it in some cases. I dont find sticky filters very useful, depends on the situation, idealy would be to have the latest value from the list selected - when the filter is date. It its department, in that case sticky filter makes sense.

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ae4d0c70 365b-4d87-8061-53a2d30f8547 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:31

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

We really need the default date range set into slicer. It is very needed on my all reports.

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87b2b22d db5a-4c5a-9c95-a286daf41e86 on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:58

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

Not sure, if i am writing this at correct place. If no, i am sorry but i don't know where to raise it.

I have below user's data. I have setup RLS
User Product
User1 Product 1
User1 Product 2
User1 Product 3
User2 Product 4
User2 Product 5
User2 Product 6

I want, "Product 1" should be default selection when User1 logged in and "Product 4" default selection for when User2 logged in. In other words, first valid value per user should be selected. Can we do this in Power BI? Please let me know.

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7c733570 8dd6-424a-8c7d-16e41f65bfa5 on 06 Jul 2020 00:01:38

RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

I, too, need the ability to have date slicers in my reports default to the latest/max date (which is not necessarily today or yesterday).