Issue with Timeline Slicer on online reports

[gbraunwoodbury]

Hi all, 

For the past two weeks I have been dealing with a bug on the Timeline Slicer. 

I use it across my dashboards, and it works perfectly on the Desktop version. But once my reports are shared online, I and all my users experience the following.

The report opens with no selection on the timeline slicer (see below)

When the user clicks on one of the years in the slicer, the report  filters as designed.  So far so good.

However, when the user attempts to reset the slicer to cover the entire timeline, the slicer starts jumping around uncontrollably, oscillating between the single year and the whole timeline.  The only way to stop the oscillation is to refresh the page.

Essentially this makes the report unusable.

The timeline slicer is so much more functional than the basic date slicer, and I really want to keep it in my reports.

I'm using Chrome but the same thing happens in Firefox.

This issue just cropped up over the past two weeks. -- the slicer used to work perfectly in the online reports.

Any help would be appreciated 

Thanks.

Gordon

[v-juanli-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @gbraunwoodbury

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce your problem using Chrome on my site.

a temperaly workaround is to add a slicer on the report, then add the "date" column to the silcer. "reset the slicer to cover the entire timeline", to achieve the goal above, you could select one item on the slicer, then the timeline slicer would set to cover the entire timeline, next clear selections on the slicer.

Best Regards

Maggie

[v-juanli-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @gbraunwoodbury

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce your problem using Chrome on my site.

a temperaly workaround is to add a slicer on the report, then add the "date" column to the silcer. "reset the slicer to cover the entire timeline", to achieve the goal above, you could select one item on the slicer, then the timeline slicer would set to cover the entire timeline, next clear selections on the slicer.

Best Regards

Maggie

[gbraunwoodbury · Accepted solution]

Thanks... I am suspicious that the issue may be due to a version conflict, since it only started after the last PowerBI update on 8 August.  Unfortunately I am working on a VM and my client’s IT policies restrict me from updating the version myself — so I am waiting for IT to get around to it.  Meanwhile I have substituted a slmple date slicer for the timeline, and the problem has vanished.