Jacek 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 20 Oct 2022 22:52:37
Update 10/20/2022 - Update from Mo - we are working on this in the new year
Thanks for everyone's votes and comments. This is a feature on our backlog; however we cannot share a timeline at the moment.
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
Please implement this asap.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
HAVING A REGULAR SLICER WITH "CURRENT YEAR" SELECTED AS DEFAULT (but still being able to select other years, as usual) WOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
A must have for me, it would improve the user experience if they didn't have to keep changing the slicer every time.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Yes please! I have a report that gets updated weekly, with weekly release data imported from Jira. The end users like to start viewing the dashboard with only the most current release data visible, but they want to be able to then adjust the sliders to compare to previous data. So the longest step in my publishing process each week is going through all the pages of the report, nudging up the bottom node on all the sliders so they only show the ones with the highest release number.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
David, realize this is just one example, but here's how we solve the date issue. Our models have date dimensions with calculated fields of YearsAgo, MonthsAgo and DaysAgo, where for example DaysAgo=0 is today, 1 is yesterday, etc. The default slicer in your example would simply be WeeksAgo=0.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Yes A must have feature in case you are having millions of records and it should come with latest date range filters or default date range.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
We use a table with business dates excluding holidays. I want it to show the last date in the list that was populated from the job. SSRS does this well and works as expected. Our users want to see what happened yesterday or when it's Monday, what happened on Friday. If Monday was a holiday, they will come in on Tuesday, then see Friday as the default.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
the 'Sticky filters’ capability is not helping my organization as it is not relevant when you want to set a default filter for a large user population, but you still want each user to edit the original filter setup.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I think being able to set the default value of a prompt/slicer to a dax formula that returns a value or range of values is a pretty fundamental requirement in any BI solution. My company is looking at the possibility of replacing all of our OBI dashboards with Power BI and this is the main showstopper.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
The relative date slicer is not good enough to solve this issue. When using it it's too hard for "normal" users to change the selection. You want to have a normal looking slicer with a dynamic default value.