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dparkinson
Advocate I
9 years ago

Streaming Dataset DateTime Field Date Hierarchy Missing

I have a streaming dataset with a DateTime field.  The streaming dataset is keeping historical data.  When I create a report to put on a dashboard using the DateTime field, I do not have any date hierarchy capabilities.  I am therefore not able to see my data by day/month, only by time.  

 

Whilst it's great to see the data realtime, some departments only want to see that data summarised over day/week/month not by minute.  I'm truly hoping that I'm doing something wrong rather than a fundamental piece of functionality being missing.

 

Any thoughts greatly received.

Many thanks,

D.

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4 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    dparkinson Were you ever able to resolve this issue?  I'm still seeing the exact same behavior your are and am curious if you ever figured out a workaround.

    Thanks!

    E.

  • ankitpatira's avatar
    ankitpatira
    Community Champion
    9 years ago

    dparkinson I am guessing that you're using Streaming datasets option in power bi service and building your reports and dashboards there. For date hierarchy to work, column has to be defined as of type DateTime. In power bi service currently you don't get that ability to change column data type and that is why you're not getting that hierarchy I guess. As if you would have used power bi desktop to build reports and published you would have ability to define column data type in desktop and make sure hierarchy works. In short I believe since column type isn't recognised properly of data type Date you're not getting hierarchy.