Date Slicer in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service (Relative v Between)

[bathyphen]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice.

I currently have a Power BI Report with multiple tabs that are controlled by a synced Relative Date Slicer. I then publish this up to the Power BI Service for our end users to use. 

The issue I have is that the end user may sometimes want to enter 2 date periods (i.e. Using the Between functionality) but they do not get the option to change the slicer from Relative to Between like you do in the Desktop version.

Is there anything I can do to get around this issue?

Any help would be greatly received, Regards.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

You can have 2 overlapped slicers (Between and Relative) and then toggle between them using bookmarks according to user's choice.

[bathyphen]

Thank you for your response.

I did try this, but the graphs wouldn't take the dates from the new slicer, only the hidden slicer and it seemed a lot of work to create 2 charts for each on (when I have at least 5 charts on each of my 5 tabs), so was wondering if there was another option that I was maybe missing.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

We just need to create duplicate slicers and just hide it on bookmarks using selection pane.

Thanks.

[bathyphen]

Thank you, I'll try it again to see if I can get it working.

TBH, I thought this is what I did (copied the original slicer and changed it to a Between option), but the charts I'd already created only took the date selection from the original slicer and ignored any changes to the new slicer when unhidden.