Better Date Range filters
The timeline slicer (Custom Visualization) functions, but it is not a friendly tool. If I quickly want to select a "Start" and "End" date for a date range, it would be more helpful to have a popup calendar with an optional freeform text box for both the "Start" and "End" date ranges.
Peter Eliason
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I’m very pleased to say we’ve shipped a much improved date slicer in the October release of PBI Desktop. More details are available here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-october-feature-summary/#reportView
Let us know what you think and please keep those suggestions coming!
thanks!
69 comments
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Louie
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When something can be filtered by date, an option for “Today” would be very useful.
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Anonymous
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Do this and do it soon.
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Devin Harrington
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adding votes for this!
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Dave Schmidt
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I couldn't agree more with the need for this. Many sites allow filtering by a to and from date (using a calendar that you just pick from). Quite frankly, the timeline slicer is clunky and not actually very usable. A date from and date to filter/slicer would work far better. Please Power BI team ... make this one happen!!!
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David Cresp
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I was surprised that this was not included. You can do it in Excel why not Power BI
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Pflipper
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There's been a call for a time slicer, and that's been incorporated into the PowerBI tool. This request for improvement is for a slider, or some kind of toggle that allows a viewer of the report to move back or forward by a specific time period (year/quarter/month/day) by clicking a button of moving a slider.
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Pflipper
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Incorporate a date slider or incrementor
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Anonymous
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Instead of filtering using fixed dates also filtering on last x days/months/years. The reporting window will automatically adapt to the progression in time.
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Anonymous
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It would be great to have To and From date picker functionality as Out of Box as business reports may want to view sales info between to dates.