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[R_XAV]

Hello Support,
The problem is apparently general: I have this problem with the "TimeLine Slicer" visual on all pages of all my reports! The PBI DESKTOP version (V. 2.4.0) is not the same as the PBI SERVICE version (V.2.5.11.0)... This is a lot of work to edit all pages of all reports and publish everything... Please publish a fix soon...

[misaacs]

The Powerbi timeline visual in the web is version 2.5.13.0 but version 2.4 in PBI desktop (Version: 2.143.878.0 64-bit (May 2025). 2.5.13.0 in the web has a bug where it does not maintain the setting under Force selection - latest availabe per period. This is causing our automated executive reports that are emailed to not display the right information in the email because it's not defaulting to the latest available period. This was a previous but we've experienced before and now it seems like it's back. 

[ekwon]

Hi Support,

The Timeline Slicer 2.5.11.0 in Power BI caused issues today.
The Timeline Slicer visual automatically updated to 2.5.11.0 in Power BI Service.

1. This caused the settings to reset to default.
   1. We have very many reports and to update them all will be a tremendous effort.
2. It also caused the vertical scroll bar to appear and unable to remove it unless we resized the visual to 165 height.
3. We are unable to update the Timeline Slicer visual from 2.4 to 2.5 in desktop.

Please Advise workaround or ETA on fix.

[Marc_Ponick]

Same issue here. It looks like the version for download claims to be 2.5 but it's really 2.4.

Tried a new blank report with no custom visuals, and it downloaded the 2.4 version as well.

Desktop shows the visual as I want it to appear, but online the visual is showing all options as per default settings.

We have this in 100s of views, so a fix is needed asap.

[Aniketparab1999]

Hi ,

I am facing a Slicer Behavior issue  with the timeline custom visual of power BI version2.5.11 The slicer might show a smaller blue part than the whole rectangle for a specific year, indicating that the slicer is not recognizing the full date range. 

how to fix this? what can be a probabale solution?

[GeorgEberle]

Same issue here. Need to edit every report-page after publishing....

[chucky69]

Same issue !
Too many views ko with this certified Microsoft custom visual used for years

[wilkstep]

I also have the same issue.  What I have noticed about now getting a vertical scroll bar, is that suddenly the Timeline Slicer visual in the Power BI Service is no longer holding on to the 'Off' selection of the 'Display all' toggle under the Labels section of the Formatting pane.  When opening the Desktop app file, the 'Display all' toggle under the Labels section is turned off (as desired).  However, after publishing, the visual in the Service is behaving as though the 'Display all' toggle under Labels is turned On, and therefore there is no longer enough vertical space on the visual and it presents an undesirable vertical scrollbar.  Can this be fixed?  Thanks!

[YDA]

Same issue here !!!
We have many reports that use the TimeLine Slicer and this can be very disabling.
Could we already know if the problem has been seen, or even know an estimated resolution date please ?

[andreaskuatin]

I’m facing the same issue! I’ve received multiple reports about the TimeLine Slicer, and it’s causing significant disruption. Could I get an update on whether the issue has been identified and, if possible, an estimated timeline for resolution

[Marc_Ponick]

I have the Enterprise CritSit team looking into this. Nothing so far as resolutions go, but will update the thread when I hear more.

[Marc_Ponick]

I never did get a call from the MS team, but I provided them with all the details last week, and it looks like a fix was implimented overnight. My reports are back to normal

[nitinpango]

In Gantt custom visual, there is no option to add lable text using milestones and milestones are showing weird dotted vertical lines. is there any way to fix it?

[RhysM89]

I am using this Gantt chart visualisation, but despite the data sources being set to Australian date format,(dd/mm/yyyy) and running a query to confirm this, the chart will still try and interpret the data as american date format (mm/dd/yyyy), which is giving month long shifts when I try and do a form of attendance reporting using it.

The desktop app and report setting are all set to Australian date format.

I have tried all the settings in the general and visualisation parts of the format section, is there something I am missing that is a simple toggle?

[nikkhasnis]

Hello

I downloaded the Gantt visual on 11/8 and create reports using it. The version was 2.2.x

When I used 2 gantt charts in the same report, they worked perfectly and interacted with each other (one chart's filters were being applied correctly to the other). This functionality worked on desktop as well as published report.

The inter-activity functionality stopped working since yesterday (11/11/24). Selecting a value on one Gantt chart no longer affects the other Gantt chart. I see that the visual was updated to 3.0.x.

This issue impacts the published reports only. My desktop visual is still on 2.2.x version and the interactivity works. I tried updating it, but it does not update to 3.x

So 2 issues 

1. Gantt chart 3.0.x version does not interact with other visuals (Gantt chart, heat map) in published reports

2. Desktop version does not upgrade the visual to 3.x

Can someone please help?

Thanks

[QQQQ]

There is a long-time issue in Timeline Slicer. The issue is behaviour after Refreshing data. My slicer is for example based on Years and everything works. Then I refresh the underlying data. It adds a few months of data. And the page does not show them. And the Slicer looks like picture below. The blue part is smaler then the whole rectangle for year 2024. It is not possible to do standard way. It seems that the Slicer has some internal max date stored inside and it is not updated after Refreshing. On cloud it works exactly the same way as in Desktop. It is possible to click the slicer and to move the right border to max. Then it shows page with updated data. But when I click the green circle button in the upper part on Power BI cloud to "Reset filters, slicers ...", the situation is the same as in the picture. It is a pain because the user may not notice the strange situation in the Slicer.

[HMB]

Since a couple of days, the Timeline Slicer visual always shows the Year, Quarter, Month, etc. on PowerBI.com, even if it's been set up not to do so. On PowerBI desktop everything looks great (just the slicer with the different dates), but on PowerBI.com it's shows up completely different.
PowerBI Desktop

PowerBI.com

and you have to scroll down to see the actual slicer, since we obviously sized the visual for only displaying the slicer.
Even dashboards that haven't refreshed as recently as the one in the screenshots above have been impacted by this change. I have removed the Timeline slicer visual from the dashboard in PBI desktop re-added it after reopening PBI desktop, but the result was exactly the same.

[WOLF81]

Just now I can see they are back to normal again!

[HMB]

Hi @WOLF81 and the other responders to this thread,
I checked PowerBI.com and they definitely are back to their regular functionality. 😊

[WOLF81]

Exact same issue here. Looking forward to a solution

[SieB]

I'm having a similar issue. Appears on cloud the timeline slicer is version 2.5.8, but the desktop uses 2.4.0 and things such as the label granularity switches cause issues. Even when I download version 2.5.8 from Appsource, and import in as a visual, it goes back to 2.4.0. I suspect this is the cause of a lot of issues (as 2.5.8 has more features, such as turning the cursors on and off etc too)