Date filter in preview

Hi there,
Can anyone help me to see the error of my ways with date filters when using Preview and Designer to create reports.
If I create a Excel 2013 workbook with date filter on Power View they appear as they do in Excel and the current version of Power BI (O365 Add on)... see first Pic below.
If I use the Power BI Designer, or create a Report in the Preview the only filter 'structure' applied to dates is the checkbox structure for each date, and it's not functional either as the list of dates only shows approximately 30 instead of each day for
the last 5 years (which is the content of the data)... see second pic below
I was expecting any date filters to show as per the first Pic in all cases.
Is this just a bug??
Expected to see (uploaded Excel 2013 Workbook):-
but we see this (using the same model from the uploaded workbook):
The Power Query has the column 'added' defined as a date.
Thanks,
Tim
Thank you for you time folks!

Hi Bruno, thanks for the reply to the post.
The issue here is the way in which the UI works with this amount of data. So there are 1600 dates I'm the model and the UI only shows a small list of the dates. And you can't change the filter 'type' to allow rhea selection for a range of dates
like you can in the Excel 2013 Power View. This is odd because when you upload the Excel created Power View the functionality exists in the Power BI UI.
The issue is when using a date as a filter you can't appear to select the type of filter to allow the entry of a date range. This just appears odd, or a bug?? i'm going to use the good old date dimension table to allow the selection but most end users
of Power BI won't have rhe knowledge or the skills to build star or snow flakes... therefore this seriously restricts functionality in my view...
Hope MS resolves soon...
Thanks again. tim
Thank you for you time folks!

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