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Anonymous
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Date Slicer not displaying as a calendar

I have used two date slicers that are used for parameter binding for direct query. I am not able to display those slicers as calendar even though they are in date format. As soon as i did parameter binding with those slicer it turned to dropdown.

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Mr_Murphy
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Did anyone get a resolution to this? It's hard to believe that this is even a problem for a BI product...

Mr_Murphy
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We're experiancing the same issue.

 

Was there a resolution to this ?

 

Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous I tried the same and I am not able to use date/ datetime slicer with bind parameter.

Its an actual issue please suggest. I have followed your steps and its not working

Hi Saddam,

Did you get the resolution for this?It is bit urgent for me.

Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Please make sure you add the date column or date/time column into the slicer instead of the date hierachy.

Here I create a sample with Date and Date/Time type Parameters in Power Query Editor. And turn on "Enable load".

RicoZhou_0-1656051721702.png

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If you turn on "Auto date/time for new file" in Option, Power BI will create a date hierachy in your data model. When you add the date or date/time column into the slicer, Power BI will add the hierachy automaticly. If you add hierachy into slicer, you could dropdown only.

RicoZhou_2-1656052161123.png

I suggest you to select the column in Field.

RicoZhou_3-1656052178474.png

And then if your column in date or date/time type, you will be able to use all kind of function as below.

RicoZhou_4-1656052192089.png

 

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

Hi, did you try to bind your date/datetime column as parameter and your date slicer still work as you mentioned? because this is not working from our way after binded as date parameter.

Anonymous
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I tried that. Its not a hierarchy when its added to slicer but still it only has dropdown and list

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