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jd8766
Helper II
Helper II

PBI Date Slider - shows all dates in date table when selecting first/last dates between period

Hi, I have a date field from my calendar table used as a slider. The slider has a filter on it to only allow the previous 2 years to be selected. However if you move the slider selection to the first or last date on the slider... it shows everything.. and my visuals end up looking like the below

jd8766_0-1655471965919.png


Any idea what is causing this and how to fix?

 

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v-luwang-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @jd8766 ,

This behavior is by design. There are 2 aspects collaborating together:

 

1. The relative date filter applies only to the values that are selectable in the slicer. That filter won't propagate anywhere else.

 

2. A behavior of the range slicer is that if the customer does not move the slider at both ends, as shown in the figure below, there is effectively no filter applied.

 

vluwangmsft_0-1655969721310.png

 

 

So if you never changed the ends of the range, either by dragging the slider or typing in a value, or if you selected the values that are the Min or Max, the filter won't do anything in actuality. This is to allow scenarios where one of the ends keeps changing.

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Best Regards

Lucien

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v-luwang-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @jd8766 ,

This behavior is by design. There are 2 aspects collaborating together:

 

1. The relative date filter applies only to the values that are selectable in the slicer. That filter won't propagate anywhere else.

 

2. A behavior of the range slicer is that if the customer does not move the slider at both ends, as shown in the figure below, there is effectively no filter applied.

 

vluwangmsft_0-1655969721310.png

 

 

So if you never changed the ends of the range, either by dragging the slider or typing in a value, or if you selected the values that are the Min or Max, the filter won't do anything in actuality. This is to allow scenarios where one of the ends keeps changing.

Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!


Best Regards

Lucien

Hariharan_R
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi

If you set the visual filter for that slicer then you should see only those date not before that. Please check below.

Hariharan_R_0-1655477266360.png

 

Thanks

Hari

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still the same issue

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