How can I automatically set the filter of dashboards to "Current Year" as they load for users?

[TechnicalTim]

Hello,

My team needs to develop dashboards for our sales organization that automatically show metrics of our current year as the dashboards load for the end users. We don't want users to have to set the filters each time. Instead, the dashboards should automatically filter to the current year.

How can we achieve this?

[v-piga-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @TechnicalTim,

You also could use relative date filtering of  Page level filter or report level filter.

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Best Regards,

Cherry

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Can you use the relative date filter on your date table? Click on the top right marker and change to relative when you have the Slicer visual selected. 


Best regards

[LivioLanzo]

hi @TechnicalTim

there are several ways you could go about this. One of them could be creating a calculated column in your Date dimension table, showing 0 for dates not in current year and 1 for dates in current year, then set a Page Level (or Report Level ) filter for this column equal to 1

[Anonymous]

You could create a calculated column like the below:

CurrentYear =
IF (
    YEAR ( DateModel[Date] ) = YEAR (
            TODAY ()
        ),
    "Current Year",
    FORMAT (
        DateModel[Date],
        "yyyy"
    )
)

NB: If you already have "Year" in your date model then use this instead of ' YEAR ( DateModel[Date] ) '

Then set the filter to Current Year and this would automically change when a new year kicks in