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
I'm surprised this feature isn't available especially as it was requested 16 months ago
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Definitely agree. It's slightly annoying to have to do this manually every day on a daily report. Also, it's just not a good user experience since I had to explain to every (non-programmer) user that they have to do exactly that because it's so unintuitive.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Definitely agree. Another use case is automatically selecting the latest date in a date slicer.
It's slightly annoying to have to do this manually every day on a daily report. Also, it's just not a good user experience since I had to explain to every (non-programmer) user that they have to do exactly that because it's so unintuitive.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
'There are definitely scenarios where your suggestions are not good enough.
-) for arge datasets the force a first single select (or default by expression) value is required (in our scenario we just get an out of memory exception
-) in scenarios where I want a default (especially in Time) which is not the most current day
-) in scenarios with Row Level Security where not everyone sees all elelemts (there especially and force first element selection like in Report Server with Item(0) or so)
I am sure there are other scenariois.
I consider https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/11509449-slicer-mandatory-selection-property part of this request.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Should be such a BASIC feature! Please add
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
It would be nice to be able to set a calculated default value for slicers...example: when I open a report with a date slicer, the latest date on the list is selected by default so my report isn't empty on open. My solution has slicer values from today backwards.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
For currency selection - Force a single selection. Change the visual from checkbox (which indicates multi select to end users) to radio buttons (which indicates single select to end users).
For dates - option to default to today with ability to select another date. Prefer this over the relative time option which is too clunky atm.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please add the default selection feature, Its Present in all High end BI tools
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Very much needed! Please! Thank you!
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Please allow a default slicer, particularly for dates. I would like for my slicer to be defaulted at yesterday's date, and at the same time, allow the user to select a 3+ year date range.