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timvanharen
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9 years ago
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Slicer Visualizations for dates no longer work with Quarter/Months and Days

Dear Power BI Community

 

The Issue:

With the new version of PowerBI (2.40.4554.421 64-bit ) it seems to be impossible to make an 'old school'  slicer with Months/Quarters and Days. 

 

What happends:

Once I make a slicer to access a date field like: 01-01-2016 I see the new date bar. There is a possibility to acces the old slicer field by left clicking on the arrow in the visualizations -> field option. However once I switch to Date Hierarchy I can only select 'year' and no longer access the Quarter, Month and Day options.

Even when i first make a table (they still do have the other date options) and I switch the visualization back to the slicer I still only have an option for years.

Workaround:

There is a possibility to add additional colomns to my dataset, however I prefer not to do so and work with the old slicer field options (and the new option too).

 

Older version reports still work with the slicers for Quarters/Months and Days.

 

Thank you in advance, 

Tim

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hi timvanharen,

     

    Based on my understanding, you need a slicer which can support the Hierarchy format data, right?

     

    You can try to use "HierarchySlicer"(custom visual):

    Power BI Custom Visual Gallery

     

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    Hi timvanharen,

     

    Based on my understanding, you need a slicer which can support the Hierarchy format data, right?

     

    You can try to use "HierarchySlicer"(custom visual):

    Power BI Custom Visual Gallery

     

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng