Current month default selection in Slicers

[Anonymous]

I have slicer  with showing Month name.How i can set current month name as default value while loading report?

Currently i created a column like this for default set up...

Current Month = IF(YEAR('table'[date])=YEAR(TODAY()) && MONTH('table'[date])=MONTH(TODAY()), 1, 0)

Added  Current Month as column in filter and select 1 as value in filter so that only show current month by default while loading report.Is there any other solution is there? And also i want to change selection month name as user requirement after loading the report.Any suggestion for this?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

According to my understanding, you want to display the specific month based on the selected value in slicer,right?

You coulf create a table by entering data for slicer like this:

And then use SWITCH() function :

Current Month =
IF (
    YEAR ( MAX ( 'Table'[Date] ) ) = YEAR ( TODAY () )
        && MAX ( 'Table'[Month] ) = MONTH ( TODAY () ),
    1,
    0
)

Previous Month =
IF (
    YEAR ( MAX ( 'Table'[Date] ) ) = YEAR ( TODAY () )
        && MAX ( 'Table'[Month] )
            = MONTH ( TODAY () ) - 1,
    1,
    0
)

....

=
SWITCH (
    MAX ( 'ForSlicer'[Value] ),
    "Current Month", [Current Month],
    "Previous Month", [Previous Month],
    "Next Month", [Next Month]
)

After applying the [Measure] to filter pane ,and setting as "=1", the final output is shown below:

Please take a look at the pbix file here.

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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[jdbuchanan71]

@Anonymous 

Just change your calculated column a bit like so.

Current Month =
IF (
    YEAR ( 'table'[date] ) = YEAR ( TODAY () )
        && MONTH ( 'table'[date] ) = MONTH ( TODAY () ),
    "Current Month",
    FORMAT ( 'table'[date], "mmmm" )
)

This will give you a column you can use in your slicer where you can selecte "Current Month".  As the months change and the table is refreshed the rows marked as "Current Month" will shift.