Slicer clearing

[kcantor]

I have a report where I keep several items pre selected on a slicer. I cannot use the report level filter because, for some reason, it arbitrarily selects a percentage of items to list. The problem isn't that a slicer must be used, I really don't mind the slicer. The problem is, when adding new selections it randomly clears a portion of those who were already selected. This is a list of our vendors (around 281 total) and we highlight about 25 - 30 to monitor. If I add five more, the slicer will go from having 30 selected to having about 22 selected plus the one I just clicked. There is no rhyme or reason and it is never the same ones dropped. It is very frustrating to have to go back through the entire list to find what was dropped and add new ones. Any suggestions?

I am reporting this as a bug but as my past few interactions with the support system have been very slow, I am hoping someone here has some insight as well.

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@kcantor "Adding new selections" - does this mean just clicking on options, or how are you adding them? Is there additional filtering you are doing on the slicer to get the top 30?

You could also post on the "Issues" forum if you are pretty sure it's a bug. Definetely sounds weird.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/360879-issues

[kcantor]

@Seth_C_Bauer,

I have about 281 Vendors. At any given time we are actively watching about 20 - 35 of them. I create a slicer for the vendors (281) and then select 25 to watch. Later, I go back to add more to the display of watched vendors so in the slicer I select 5 more. When I click the first new one to add, I lose 5 or so of the ones that were previously already selected. I am not filtering to get a top selection. We make a manual selection using the slicer by checking the box by the vendor name.

I have tried using the filter to filter the report down to those vendors but the filter does not always show all 281 choices.

I have submitted a ticket but will share this in the forum you suggested as well.

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@kcantor Sounds like a bug... The only other thing I'll mention is have you tried re-creating the slicer? I've seen weird things happening when visuals were changed from one visual to another, or filters that were applied to an old visual impacting the existing... might be worth checking to see if re-creating works. (you may have done this already)

[kcantor]

@Seth_C_Bauer, Yes, I deleted and recreated the slicer. I have also tried multiple slicers. The only consistenecy is that it loses some of the selections when you add more.

I will update this when I heal back on my ticket.