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Slicer: single select without selected value at the beginning

hello I wanted to ask about the possibility of creating a slicer - single select but without a default value. I am talking about the situation when I have single select slicer without selected value...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Agree with AnkitKukreja . It's a default behaviour. If you select 'single select' in the slicer settings, by default, the first value is selected for you.

    You may submit an idea for the unsupported feature.

    Ideas (powerbi.com)

     

    Best Regards,

    Stephen Tao

     

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

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi AnkitKukreja 

Thank you very much for posting the link with the discussion.


You wrote: "you can use the slicer with multi-select and their users can multi-select with ctrl (or you can turn that off as well)."
This unfortunately doesn't solve my problem, because I need the slicer with single-select.
When I set the slicer with multi-select and turn off the option with ctrl, the problem is not solved in Power BI.

When the settings look:

Then the user selecting check-boxes one by one without using ctrl selects a pair (in this case dates):

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

Agree with AnkitKukreja . It's a default behaviour. If you select 'single select' in the slicer settings, by default, the first value is selected for you.

You may submit an idea for the unsupported feature.

Ideas (powerbi.com)

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

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