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Dynamic Date Slicer (improve relative date slicer)

This is a repost of my idea that was closed as completed, but the 'relative date slicer doesn't allow any of the described request hence my idea is not implemented.... The new date slicer is awesome, but it would be so nice if you could set a dynamic date selection instead of a static. With a static filter the user will always have to set the dates before the saved report makes sense - especially as the report gets older. Dynamic options could be YTD, QTD, MTD, WTD, Today, This Year, This Quarter, This Month, This Week and so on. original idea: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17004565-dynamic-date-slicer
Status: Planned
Comments
fbcideas_migusr
New Member
Regarding the THIS dropdown list. Please allow the ability to add or customize the list. For example, we want to add QUARTER or SEMI-ANNUAL. We want to set our own date range. Our WEEK is Monday to Sunday or we want to add an item in the list for FISCAL YEAR which is April to March. This would be apart from the existing YEAR which is JAN to DEC.
aaron_s_creight
New Member
There really needs to be a way to turn off the relative date filter. E.g. Say that you are currently looking at This month. But now you want to look at all dates.. Currently, the only way to do this is to change the slicer to drop down or list. You can not turn off the relative date slicer.
Michael_Dunlop
New Member
Having the slicer filter by time (hours, minutes, seconds) would be useful. This should also be built into the standard date hierarchy for date/time data.
fbcideas_migusr
New Member
Hi, any news?
fbcideas_migusr
New Member
The date slicer really needs to be rethought ... a lot of gaps. Ideally there should be only 1 date slicer for both absolute & relative date picking with the option of customizing it ... relative value selection should be above/below the absolute date selection
Melnikova_t
New Member
Its important to give abbility to chose begining of the year (its not always Jan-Dec) and begining of the week. In this case YTD, QTD WTD etc will be calculated correctly.
joshjjames1
New Member
The problem I run in to a lot with the date slicer is that a lot of my views are by month (not day). So, when I want to use 'between' , that option is not there. It is there if you use days from your datetable, but not MonthYear. Please add between as an option for months. I realize that I can just list all of the months in a dropdown, but that looks bad and takes up screen space...or I can use a different visual that looks better than the dropdown, but it doesn't have between either. So, I have to manually click each month if I want to see a whole year. This could easily be fixed without having to re-invent the wheel. I don't see why Microsoft can't solve simple changes to make the visuals better. Seems like they are outsourcing the visuals to 3rd parties. I am not totally against this, just am against it for standard visuals like a date filter.
mdutta1
New Member
If we add one more feature to Relative Date Slicer, then it would pretty much remove most of the dimension model relative month/year/week offset field. Most of the times we look at reports from 3 months past to 3 months forward. Without relative month/week/year offset integer field we are not able to do that with current Related Date Slicer. It would be great to have this feature added so that we can all together eliminate unnecssary so many offset fields we have to use in each of those reports.
fbcideas_migusr
New Member
Is the new version planned with a date to select?
elisa_terzo
New Member
It will be fantastic if "This" refers to the last date selected by the user on a slicer, not the system date.