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
'@Will Thompson - Above described features will not help in the use case I am looking for.
In my case, I have slicers on certain values e.g. financial snapshots, and I need a certain snapshot to be defaulted based on what part of the year we are in. The snapshot to show can be identified based on another column within the Snapshots tables.
So what I need is functionality that will enable me to do something like "select snapshot that has [Another ColumnValue] = 1" in the slicer.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I'm thinking about having a default filter based on roles. I mean: when some rol visits the report, some slicers have a default value based on the rol.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Yes, this is very needed - default value based on custom DAX
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I have a requirement wherein we have a row level security implemented. The additional requirement is the filters have selected text value based on the user accessing the report.
So basically it the filters default value should not be based on saved report but based on the user role and its corresponding values
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
how to set the default value on a slicer, it is really important when you have specified selected itmes on slicer.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
A situation that is not addressed by either method:
We have a custom, fixed fiscal calendar that will not work with relative date filtering.
Our weeks run Wednesday to Tuesday, for example.
I might be able to use relative date filtering for weeks, IF Power BI gave me a way to set the first day of the week to Wednesday. OR - if the relative date filter respected the date ranges in the calendar table.
The relative date filter also ignores the date range in my Calendar table and uses Today as the relative driver. So that means I can't use "last 7 days" either, as the last 7 calendar days have no data. (Data is refreshed weekly for prior week).
Sticky filters require users to make an initial selection, so that doesn't solve my issue either.
Currently, I can control the default slicer by republishing to the cloud with the slicer value pre-selected. But when I migrate to the Power BI Report Server - it will need a way to update the slicer choice.
Thanks Audrey
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I just want a slicer that defaults to the current date, while at the same time, allowing the user to enter an alternative past date range.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
I have a case where I would like the first value in the list selected. Since this is data driven, it is unknown at design time. The functionality is similar to defaulting the the first value in an SSRS parameter.
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
Very much agree! Allowing all date slicers (all slicers really) to have dynamic default dates would be wonderful. Ideally do something where we can just enter some DAX and let it evaluate then we could display things like MAX values of Shipped Orders to always default a slicer to the most recent order shipment date. A relative start/stop date so we can have BETWEEN date filters, but be able to set them using relative terms (the relative slicer is great but you can NOT change the date picker calendar so you can never change from last 6 months to pick your own start/stop dates)
RE: Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration
This is a very useful feature. Please Add.