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Sonashish
Resolver I
5 years ago
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Single Select Slicer with Default Option

Hello In my powerBI report I am using Single Select Slicer on Year field. In the slicer dropdown, I want to add "Select Year at the top and by default it this option should be selected or when I reset the filter this option should get selected.

 

How Can I do this?

 

Regards

Sona

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi  Sonashish  ,

    You can use the isfiltered function

    According to your description, I created some data:

    Here are the steps you can follow:

    1. Create measure to calculate the amount of a column when selecting a year

    select_year =
    var _select=SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Year])
    return CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[amount]),FILTER('Table','Table'[Year]=_select))

    Result:

    The default is blank ()

    2. Use isfiltered to create measure. The default value is 2017

    ISFILTERED =
    IF(ISFILTERED('Table'[Year]),'Table'[select_year],CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[amount]),FILTER('Table','Table'[Year]=2017)))

    Result:

    The default value is 2017

    You can downloaded PBIX file from here.

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi  Sonashish ,

    Currently, we can't set the default value for slicers, because DAX is not available in the report level filter panel. If you want the default value to be the current year, you can create a new calculated column to represent "yesterday" or "other dates", and then use this column to filter the chart.

     

    This is related content, I hope it can help you:

    https://businessintelligist.com/2016/04/15/power-bi-tutorial-dynamically-update-date-slicer-to-show-current-date/

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Setting-a-Default-Value-for-a-Slicer/td-p/440659

    https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Default-value-in-Report-Filter-Panel/td-p/47574

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

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  • Hello Liu,

     

    Thanks for reply. I have two single select slicer as mentioned

    1st Slicer (Year) = It always select first value

    2nd Slicer (Country) = It also always select first value

     

    What I was looking for give option Select Year and Select Country. Because as this single select slicer so by default one option is always selected. I dont want to default option or first valus should always select until end user select. That is why I was looking for add Select Year and Select Country. If this not possible then is there any way to not select first value as default value. I also added a button (reset all filters) using bookmark action. So once user click on this button so any value which is selected in these two slicers, both should be unselect.

     

    Please advise

    Sonashish

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi  Sonashish  ,

    You can use the isfiltered function

    According to your description, I created some data:

    Here are the steps you can follow:

    1. Create measure to calculate the amount of a column when selecting a year

    select_year =
    var _select=SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Year])
    return CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[amount]),FILTER('Table','Table'[Year]=_select))

    Result:

    The default is blank ()

    2. Use isfiltered to create measure. The default value is 2017

    ISFILTERED =
    IF(ISFILTERED('Table'[Year]),'Table'[select_year],CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[amount]),FILTER('Table','Table'[Year]=2017)))

    Result:

    The default value is 2017

    You can downloaded PBIX file from here.

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

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

    • Sonashish's avatar
      Sonashish
      Resolver I

      Thanks Liu, I implemented your implementation. It seems to be working.

       

      Thanks