Miguel Myers on 08 Oct 2024 05:00:00
Imagine a world where report creators can automatically apply slicer and filter selections based on specific logic, revolutionizing data analysis and user experience. This innovative approach eliminates any need for complex workarounds, optimizes slicer functionality, and paves the way for more efficient and effective data reporting.
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RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
We have cases where reports need to be filtered by default to a certain value for a field with ability for a user to switch to another if required. That default value can change each month or randomly. The value we want to filter is flagged in a config table.
Without an ability to set default filter logic say via a measure or some other means, we don't have any way to address this.
Please add this feature.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
I teach all my users (not techsavy at all) to return to default settings after opening the report, because they forget what they have filtered (and get confused).
How nice would it be if at least my year and month would return to the current month setting (instead of the hardcoded current year and January because I don't want to republish every month).
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
Setting default values for slicers is a nightmare in Power BI. This is probably the biggest miss in the tool.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
Please make it happen! The relative date slicer is confusing and doesn't address many cases. We need a DEFAULT value for FILTERS and SLICERS based on a free DAX formula.
Thank you!
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
I have a month slicer (Jan, Feb, Mar, ...) and a year slicer (2020, 2021, ...)
I want the current month and year to be selected by default after the report refresh. But the user should be able to select previous months and years also.
I cannot use a relative date slicer as it is confusing to the user.
This feature is definitely a must in any BI Platform with automated data refresh.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
We need this to be programmable. Maybe have a DAX measure that returns the default value that should be selected. As an example, select the user's department by default, while still leaving the other selections available.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
Can you please also add the forced selection like currently available in chiclet slicer, its very much needed? Thanks in advance for help.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
Voting for this idea because I need to show data from first day of current month till the last date in the date field by default and also provide users with ability to move left circle to see historical dates. I'm using slicer with "between" option and I can't set first day of the month (or today () , for example) as a date for left circle by default.
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
How many votes are required for an idea to approved ?
RE: Epic idea: Apply filter selections automatically
Upvote. This should be standard functionality