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Anonymous
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automatically select my current month whenever i open my report

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i want a slicer which will automatically select my current month in a slicer dropdown

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instead of this 
it should have other  month values as well

can anyone help?

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

You can refer the following links to get it:

How to set default value in Power BI Slicer

Step 1. Add a custom column

Date.MonthName( DateTime.LocalNow() )   

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 Step 2. Create a slicervisual having the current month as a data field. To make it default value, go to format pane> Selection controls. Here, turn onthesingle selection toggle.

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Current month default selection in Slicers, so that it will show all the visuals the current month

How to set slicer default value of current month?

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