Date Filter Automatically Update to latest date in Table

[danielhough]

Hello everybody, I have a date filter in my model that is derrived from a date table. Is there a way I can have this filter automatically select the latest day without manual intervention? I tried adding a colum to add a "1" next to the latestdate in the data and applying a filter of 1 to the filter, but this did not work. Any suggestions?

[v-janeyg-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @danielhough 

If you want to display only the latest date in the report, you can actually filter it directly in pq.

Like this:

If it doesn't solve your problem, Please feel free to ask me.

Best Regards

Janey Guo

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[jdbuchanan71]

If you mouse over the filter icon on one of the visuals before you hit reset in the app, what is diplayed for that field.  The behaviour you describe is not what I would expect.

[jdbuchanan71]

@danielhough 

Add a column to your date table along these lines.

Date Current = 
IF ( [Date] = TODAY(), "Today",FORMAT([Date],"m/d/yyyy"))

Then you use that column in your filter and select "Today".  When the meaning of TODAY() updates tomorrow the date will shift with it becuase the row marked as "Today" will shift.

[danielhough]

Hey! So I tried this and I allowed it to refresh automaticly for a few days and whats happening is, the amounts of the days between the refreshes are being included it the displayed figures. If I click, Reset View in the App, then it flips to just dispaying the one day? Any idea how to resolve this?

[danielhough]

Ok, let me give this a try and see after the automatic refresh, it updates accordingly