I have a date drop down list that has 2019 and current year, the default select is ALL, I would like the ALL to change to Current so the user doesn't have to click on the drop down every time. is there a way to do it ?
You can't set a default and switch slicers, what you can do is use Bookmarks. So you create one bookmark with the Default filter(s), then the other without it. You can then add the bookmarks to a button that you can click on and switch between the two. You can also set visuals to show and hide in a bookmark, so for example hide the data slicer in the 'default' view and when you click on the 'date range' the slicer will appear.
Hope that helps point you in the right direction
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I have a PowerBI sheet consisting of multiple visuals and one slicer. The underlying data set includes one column called "selected" consiting of either "1" or "null". I want the slicer to always be default setted to only show data where the data entries in column "selected" are equal to "1". I want that the user is still possible to modify the selection and then be able to press a button to return to the pre-selection. I found no way possible to do this. Do you guys have any idea? I am pretty new to PowerBI.
I only found a way to pre-select the whole sheet or slicer to only show values where "selected" =1 but I want the user to be able to further select data. Also I only saw solutions for pre-selected slicer based on dates (e.g. most recent date is pre-selected).
What you need to do is to preselect all filter and save "bookmark" (view tab in powerbi desktop); Then you can assign a bookmark to the button.
Read this article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-bookmarks?tabs=powerbi-desktop
I have found a way to hide a column in the matrix visualisation in Power BI but not in Paginated report, hence question.
In the Design view, you can hide a column by right clicking the column header and selecting Column Visibility...
then select Show, Hide, or based on an expression
To tie showing or hiding the column based on a drop down, create a parameter by right clicking Parameters in the Report Data pane and selecting Add Parameter...
Here are my settings for the parameter:
General tab:
Available Values tab:
Default Values tab:
Once you have the parameter set, go back into the Column Visibility settings, select based on an expression and click the fx button:
Then click Parameters and double click your parameter name to add the expression:
When you run the report, you'll see the drop down and the default setting:
You can then change the drop down and click View Report to see the hidden column:
In a Visual Analytics report in SAS VIYA 3.5, I have a drop down box to select the date for which to show the data.
By default, I want to show the current situation, i.e. the last date present in the data.
In the settings for a drop down box, there is an "Initially select first item" check box, but no option to initially select the last, or an option to sort in reverse order.
The solution suggested in different fora is to lookup the data item used in the drop down in the in data pane, right click it and change its sorting order. However that only works with so called "categorical" variables and SAS VA does not see dates as categorical variables.
Does anyone know a workaround?
For completeness: a picture in the data pane, date variables are shown with a calendar icon (In this case the date is calculated from a time stamp. That is why there is a calculator in the icon too.) Categorical variables are shown with a tree legged symbol. The context menu for categorical variables has a Custom sort option. That for dates not.
To sort a date in descending order within a drop-down list, right-click in the middle of the drop-down (not the 3 dots) and select Sort --> Date: Descending. Enable the "Initially Select First Item" option on the drop-down and the first date will automatically be selected.
I have used chiclet slicer to achieve radio button,
In my case from 3 measures I have taken 3 chiclet slicers, While clicking on a single radio button it is working fine, but on selecting another how to deselect the other two radio buttons.
I have data in 3 different measures "daily", "weekly" and "monthly".
My requirement is on the select of any those rest two options should be deselected, which is the default behavior of the radio button.
Or you can suggest me if there is any other way to implement the radio button.
I've always achieved this using the standard slicer and a hidden table with the needed labels and/or values.
Create a table by using "Enter data" or by using DAX, and put in it your 3 labels "Daily","Weekly","Monthly", I will call the table "MyTable" and the column "SwitchLabel"
Create a slicer with field "SwitchLabel", in the selection control enable "single select". (you can change the orientation in the "general" section).
Create a switch measure like the one below:
SalesSwitch = SWITCH( SELECTEDVALUE('MyTable'[SwitchLabel])
,"Weekly", [WeeklySalesmeasure]
,"Daily", [DailySalesmeasure]
,[DefaultMeasure] --optional "else", if nothing matches or there are multiple selections
)
Put the "SalesSwitch" measure in the charts.
The slicer/filter on the "switch" table must be present on every page that uses the measures, otherwise (without filter), it will always fall in the default case.
One limit of this solution is that it cannot change the X axis, in fact you are just calling different measures based on the selection.
If you need to also change the X-axis use Seymour's method with buttons and bookmarks.
There are many ways to implement the same need.
Buttons + Bookmark (built-in)
Slicer + Switch (built-in)
custom visuals in the store
In general, I prefer built-in Power BI functionalities because for enterprise production solution you do not want to rely on custom tools not officially supported by the software vendor.
Therefore, if your project is a real work then my suggestion is to use the Buttons + Bookmark built-in functionality. For your case you need:
Buttons
Bookmarks
In practice, create 3 buttons: Daily, Weekly and Monthly.
Next, create a bookmark with the default view, calling it Default.
Then, update one bookmark for each of the three view. It could simply be hiding or showing a visualization in the same page. Please note that a hidden visualization will not trigger any computation when the page is opened.
Finally, set the action of clicking the button to direct the user toward the bookmark.
Is there any possibility to show or hide the column in Table/Matrix visual in Power BI report by user dynamically?
For Example, I have a table view with columns COLUMN-1, COLUMN-2, COLUMN-3. Now I may have filter drop down to list all the column headers, so based on user selection (Multiple selections) Table view should get adjusted to show column values.
Since Power BI was developed based on Excel, curious to know if we are having Hide/Show column based on any condition or available in visual by default (Maybe by right-clicking on column header then show/hide it).
You can do this with the following workaround:
Create your page with the table showing both columns.
Create a bookmark, uncheck "Data"
Duplicate the page and remove the column you want to conditionally hide. Set the page as hidden.
Create a bookmark, uncheck "Data"
Add a button to the first page pointing to the 2nd bookmark
Add a button to the second page pointing to the 1st bookmark
Ensure your slicers are synced
The end user experience is they will feel like they are conditionally hiding and unhiding the column.
A bit crap and a lot of extra work but I have it working well in my implementation.
Currently it is not possible to hide columns in visual based on slicer selection, there is an idea about this issue, please vote it up.
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19435267-conditional-visibility-of-a-visual-based-on-slicer
Thanks!
This is now available in Power BI with preview feature "Field Parameter". Check the May 2022 update.