To setup a slicer to have BLANK() value as default

[Anonymous]

I have a page and it requires to have a blank value for the slicer, how should I do it? 

[selimovd · Accepted solution]

Hey @Anonymous ,

the easiest way is if you add a blank row to your column that you want to use for the slicer. Usually that should be at the dimensional table.

Would that work?

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[Anonymous]

Hi @selimovd, 

The thing is that I don't really want to manipulate data, the reason why I need this, because I have 1000+ vendors and heavy calculations (sadly it was a business request) and I want to force the users to select their own items, with the BLANKS() I want to prevent Power BI to start calculate the things and populate information for all items. 

[selimovd]

Hey @Anonymous ,

sure, I understand that. But as far as I know there is no possibility to add a blank or dummy item to the dimension slicer without adding it to the table (either with Power Query or DAX).

So I guess if you want that, then there is no other way than to add a dummy row to the table.

If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍

Best regards
Denis

Blog: WhatTheFact.bi
Follow me: twitter.com/DenSelimovic

[Anonymous]

Hi @selimovd, 

So the final solution what I am going to implement is to create a technical table in my report and then append its records with my base table. Of course there would be other solutions as well and I am not 100% comfortable with the solution, but sometimes we need to accept that there are some limitations. 

Thank you you helped me a lot! ( - :