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[Ranin]

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[AMdam]

I have run into an issue with the Timeline Slicer visual not getting updated. Both the desktop and online versions of BI are installing version 2.4.0 from Appsource. In Desktop I can just force it to ignore appsource and install a newer version from a local file but this doesn't help with my published reports. Is there something I can do to get version 2.5.11 in PowerBI Service?

[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)

[misaacs]

I'm having the same issues. Desktop shows 2.4 but web shows 2.5.8. It used to hold the max date on the filter but now the Force selection/latest available period setting is not holding causing it to not stay filtered to the lastest date. 

[jaktony]

Have you had any luck finding a solution?

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[armibewo]

There seems to be an issue with the Timeline slicer as of today. The Year / Quarter / Month / Week / Day selector is missing so users cannot switch between them.

The issue only seems to be once published up into app.powerbi.com. The Slicer works fine in PowerBI Desktop.

[armibewo]

Actually I've just found out that the Year / Quarter / Month / Week / Day selector is there, however you now need to scroll completely to the left to see it. It used to be pinned so it was always visible. 

[Martijn1204]

As of last week, there appears to be a bug with the timeline slicer in the PBI service.
If the visual is less wide than the entire page- long enough to scroll in horizontally - it treats selection as if your cursor is further away to the left (proportionate to how small the visual is) than it actually is.

If anyone has any advice it would be much appreciated.

[Martijn1204]

The workaround does work, but does anyone know a more permanent solution for this?

The visual is very nice to use if not for this super inconvenient bug.

[TristanM]

Same issue here, it appears to always go back to the minimum date if the minimum date isn't on the page.

The only temporary workaround I have found is to put the visual into focus mode and zoom out so the minimum date is available.

This needs fixing asap.

[NicRic]

Hello there, unfortunately the Chicles Slicer version 1.6.3 no longer works on the desktop version 2.131.1203.0. I am also unable to update the Chiclet Slicer to the latest version 2.2.1.0. Please advice. Best regards Nic

[NicRic]

Today id looks like if they solved during the weekend. All Microsoft adds works well like before the latest update.