Timeline slicer vs custom slicer

[JoshGirvan]

Hi all

Currently I am using two slicers to adjust dates on our dashboard. One as a timeline slider and the second as a financial year selection button. See picture one.

Unfortunately there is no functionality in Power BI for these two slicers to sync with one another. When I have, for example, FY18 selected, the timeline slider does not adjust to the new dates as you can see in picture two. 

The alternative option is the custom timeline slicer. While this slicer has some added functionality, it is simple unusable for our purposes. Primarily the amount of space it take up on the dashboard is more than 4x the original two slicers (see Picute three).

Is there a way to add this basic sync functionality in the original timeline slicer and buttons in picture one?

Thanks
Josh

[v-evelk]

Hi Josh,

I am afraid that it's impossible to do anything with a core timeline slicer.

However, we are working on scale adjustment for custom timeline slicer so, it will contain such feature in the next version and will be more compact.

Kind Regards,

Evgenii Elkin,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[JoshGirvan]

Hi v-evelk,

Thanks for the response. I'll look forward to the new custom slicer!

Regards,

Josh