Setting a default value for a non-date slicer

[SomebodyIAm]

Hi all

I am quite new to power BI and am currenty looking to add a default value for my slicer. All of the solutions proposed so far are based on dates but my data does not need/contain a date.

My current data is layed out as:

Total

Category 1

Category 2

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @SomebodyIAm,

Currently, it is not supported to set default selection for a slicer. Here some ideas for you to vote.

Slicer default selected values

Default Selected Slicer or Tile-By Value Configuration

And PG has mentioned that they were looking into this request and this feature might be released in the future.

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

[SomebodyIAm]

I should add that my default option needs to be 'Total' but can then be switched to cat 1 or cat 2 whenever.

[henriquesilveir]

@SomebodyIAm, hello, you could use this solution to do what you want!

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Setting-the-Default-Value-of-a-Slicer/td-p/16442

Please, let me know if it help you and don't forget to mark the post as solution if you got it because other people can have the same situation in future!