Setting default value for 'between' (start and end date) date slicer

[shishanki]

I need a date slicer (between-mode) that selects the most recent 24 houra data by default... while still allowing end-users to pick any other period (for both start and end dates).

From what I've seen, this is impossible to accomplish in PowerBI. Is that true?

Please help

[shishanki]

Any help will be appreciated.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @shishanki ,

As far as I know, Power BI doesn't support us to set default date in slicer currently.

Your demand is a good idea, while it is not supported to implement in Power BI currently.
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There is a workaround to achieve your goal by unrelated DimDate table and measure. By this way, you need to create two unrelated date tables for rangestart and rangeend.

My Sample:

Data model:

Measure:

Filter M = 
VAR _RANGESTART =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( RangeStart[Date] )
VAR _RANGEEND =
    SELECTEDVALUE ( RangeEnd[Date] )
VAR _CURRENTDATE =
    MAX ( 'Table'[Date] )
RETURN
    IF (
        ISFILTERED ( RangeStart[Date] ) && ISFILTERED ( RangeEnd[Date] ),
        IF ( _CURRENTDATE >= _RANGESTART && _CURRENTDATE <= _RANGEEND, 1, 0 ),
        IF ( _CURRENTDATE = TODAY (), 1, 0 )
    )

Add this measure into visual level filter and set it to show items when value =1.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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