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Helper III
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lock a select date

I have a date filter. I choose to list the date Horziontal. Because it contains more than 2year's date, the date list is very long.  When I open the report every time, the date filter won't stick to show the selected date as default. Instead, it will show the start date .........  I need to click the arrow  and navigate to find the selected date.  Any direction? Thanks

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Helper III
Helper III

or anyone knows calendar pick which allow pick only one day from calendar view. Like date slicer can choose start end and end date. But what i only need is to pick just one day

Have you tried saving after filtering, then closing/reopening to test if it saves the slicer selection?

 

yes @dkay84_PowerBI I tried save it and open again. It won't work.  

v-sihou-msft
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@ask

 

I haven't encountered this issue. The slicer always keep the last selection when I open the .pbix file next time.

 

Have you updated Power BI Desktop into latest version?

 

Regards,

 

 

hi @v-sihou-msft the slicer always keep the  last selection selected. But if there is more than 10 dates, need to scroll right to find the selected date which bring the confusion.   We don't scroll right to find the date, we like to it is to be displayed whenever we open this new page

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I've had a lot of success using the Timeline slider that offered on Microsoft's Custom Visual gallery.  Would that solve your problem?

It is the same.  Timeline also starts from the begining date once opening a new page.

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