The behavior may correspond to what's documented.
See here: SAS Help Center: LTS 2024.09 (November 2024) - https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vacdc/v_028/vawn/n1a11c4ua9m5v5n1mf9lrwy2syxv.htm " New Options for Control Objects Control objects have a new Initial value option, and range slider objects have Initial min value and Initial max value options. These options enable you to specify the default initial selection for the control when a user opens the report for the first time, or when they select Restore default report state. "
See also here: SAS Help Center: Working with Controls (https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/vacdc/v_028/vaobj/n11d8xohg1cc49n1d3ovjmgvdeu3.htm#n06vhkfko9m2ngn115xhrrr0401q) > select "Slider Control" link to go to that section in the documentation.
By design those initial values are used when a user opens the report the first time but then a user may decide to change them manually and those values will persist after the report closure. To have those values reset to default a user can select Restore default report state from the menu There is the possibility to disable the saved viewer state feature: SAS Support - Disabling the ability to save the state of a SAS® Visual Analytics report displayed in View mode (https://sas.service-now.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0041659)
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