Cannot Search by Number or Date in Slicer

[TabathaN]

Why is it that you cannot turn on the search function in a slicer if it is a date or number field? Why does this only work with text? 

This is SO frustrating!

[ggyczew]

Unbelivable 4.5 years

[Anonymous]

Waiting too.

[Padycosmos]

The work around would be to duplicate the number/date columns, change the data type to "text" and use the search option.

[JustSayJoe]

Yes, but you create a new issue by solving the issue this way. Changing these numeric values to text increases the size of the column and adds latency to your load/refresh times.

[NBurnat]

yep just thought of this but how ridiculous

[SonamSahoo2020]

I am also waiting for this feature.

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @TabathaN ,

There is an idea about that, Please vote it up to make this feature comming soon.

[Anonymous]

The above link if for a different idea. This is the correct one to vote for:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17308441-slicer-for-number-search

[TabathaN]

@v-frfei-msft thanks. I just voted for the one linked within the post you recommended

[Anonymous]

@TabathaN  - 

For both dates and numbers, slicers have the option of "Between" slider, which also allows you to type in the boxes.

Hope this helps,

Nathan

[TabathaN]

That option is tedious and I believe has a small bug in it. If you do a between search once, then go back to enter a value in the first box and tab to the second, it reverts the first box back to the last search and you have to go back and type in the second search, in the first box, again.

I don't want to have to type out a number twice when I'm searching for a single value. Also, if I want to find all values that contain a string of "123", you can't, it has to match exactly.

[Anonymous]

One options is to add a text version of your column for a slicer. Or change the column data type. Typically, descriptive attributes are text types.

[largedata]

an issue with this:

if you have mostly 7 digit numbers in a Text field, but some numbers are only 4 digits, the search function is unable to return the smaller numbers- e.g. searching "4147" returns a list of 7 digit numbers that END with 4147. The number that was searched for does not even appear at the end of the list.

[bnjmnnl]

Not preferred, but could be somewhat resolved by duplicating the column and adding a space, whereafter you could type 4147 +spacebar to search for only this value.

[TabathaN]

@Anonymous until Microsoft can "fix" this, your suggestion of duplicating the column and changing the data type of my case number works. Thank you so much for this suggestion!

[MacJulian]

Hallo,

two year passed and no fix!

Thanks for nothing.

[MAPV_PowerBI]

3 years now

[Florian_EN]

4... unbelievable

[x_mark_x]

5 years and counting...

The closest solution i found for filtering exact values in a slicer was the Data Slicer visual from SCvation Gmbh found in the filters section of the Get more visuals option. 

Filtering by exact numbers shouldn't be so tedious as adjusting two values in the Between style filter or scrolling endlessly in a dropdown or vertical list slicer, especially when i have numeric values up to the millions.

Power BI product team, pretty please, with sugar on top, add another slicer style for filtering exact numeric values. Please... 😓