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
In Reporting Services the properties "Available Values" and "Default Values" have been a central part of filters (parametres) for decades. It makes the Report tool extremely flexible, as the properties can be expression based.
It is really hard to see why something similar is still missing in Power BI.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is one of the important feature which should support by any reporting tool or visual filters. But Power BI is lacking in may features when we compare other BI tools.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Definitely need that, its one of the few simple things power bi should support in order to work for our pilot project at our company.
Need that ASAP
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
We are testing Power BI in our company and this is one of the few things that should be possible. We need this function for so many reports!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Related: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19055692-slicer-default-selected-values
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Would be very nice! Currently, I'm working with a slicer that can't be relative (i.e. needs to display actual date values vs. 'last two weeks') which I would like to default to the current day. The ability to use a DAX expression would allow this.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Our company is looking to set a default date range for a slicer to the last three years when a user first opens a report. The user should then be able to select any date range after that using the slicer tool, within the date range of the underlying data source.
For example, say we have dates ranging from 2000 to 2018, we want the slicer to default to data from 2015 to 2018, not excluding the data from 2000 to 2014. The data from 2000 to 2014 should still be available for the user to select from the slicer.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
As an example our users are looking for the date slicer to default to the current month such that the first date of the date range is month start. The relative date slicer does not quite fit the bill (so far as I can tell), unless it could be modified to add an option to go back relative to the current date to the start of the current month.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
The need to set default selections programmatically is very important and fundamental. I'm surprised this has been an open request for over two years.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a very important add for PowerBI especially when concerning having date set to current on refreshing the dashboard.