button slicer single select allows for multiple selections

[_onto_]

Hi,

Running 2.141.1754.0 64-bit (March 2025) Power BI Desktop version. In the new button slicer, what is the behaviour of the Single Select toggle? It does not appear to enforce a single selection, using the Ctrl key one can make as many selections as they wish.Same behaviour in the service.

Am I missing comething?

Thank you!

[v-venuppu]

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[v-venuppu]

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[v-venuppu]

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[v-venuppu]

Hi @_onto_ ,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

Thank you @kpost for the prompt response.

You are absolutely right - the "Single Select" option alone doesn’t strictly enforce single selection, especially when using Ctrl+Click. It only limits default click behavior to one item.

Toggling "Force Selection" to On ensures that:

Only one item is always selected.Ctrl+Click and clearing selections are blocked.The slicer behaves as a true radio-button style control.

Glad it worked for you - it's a small setting, but it makes a big difference in how the button slicer behaves.

Thank you.

[_onto_]

So apparently this is not a bug 😶. It just doesn't do what it says. Call it "labelling incongruency".

[kpost]

I'm using the July release and it has a similar behavior.  Definitely seems buggy, or at least not the behavior that one would expect.  I just tested this and got it to work properly by toggling the "Force Selection" to "on" as well.

[_onto_ · Accepted solution]

Yepp, I can confirm that - only does what it says on the tin if force selection is switched on.