topic Re: Month Abbreviation in DAX Commands and Tips

Month Abbreviation

Br1bn — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:26:03 GMT

Hi, in my data I have two fields YEAR and MONTH that I used to create a new column

Date = DATE (Data[YEAR],Data[MONTH] ,1)

and setting its data type as Date/time I obtain this:

which I used to build different graphs., e.g.

The problem is that I would use the abbreviated month to save space but I cannot find the way, I tried several approached but none of them worked. Could you help me?

Re: Month Abbreviation

FreemanZ — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:44:40 GMT

hi Br1bn

try to plot the visual with a calculated column like

MMM = FORMAT([Date], "mmm")

MM = FORMAT([Date], "mm")

YY/MM = FORMAT([Date], "yy/mm")

instead of the month hierarchy.

Re: Month Abbreviation

Br1bn — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:33:36 GMT

FreemanZ The problem is that than the viz is not sorted on month natural order

😞

Re: Month Abbreviation

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:43:25 GMT

Hello Br1bn after created the new column of abbrv, go to your tables,

Create a new sort column

Sorting = format([date],"yyyymm")

Now

Select the added column of abbrv, and press on sort column, and choose the sorting added column

Re: Month Abbreviation

Br1bn — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:57:59 GMT

I created a new column:

Month_Sorting = format(Data[Date],"yyyymm")

Then I clicked on the column "Month Short" and then I went to "Column Tools":

but tring sorting by the "Month Sorting" I got this error message

Re: Month Abbreviation

FreemanZ — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:40:00 GMT

hi Br1bn

For chart visuals, you can always add another field to the tooltips and sort with the tooltips field.

e.g. another column like:

MonthNumber= FORMAT ( [Date], "MM" )

like this:

Re: Month Abbreviation

ghaines — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:32:01 GMT

The sorting is set up staticly on the whole table, not in the context of your visual. The problem is that there are multiple values of month_sorting for each Month

e.g. for June, Jun corresponds to 202206 and 202106. When there are similar multiple values for the other months, it doesn't know how to perform the sort.

Either use Format(..., "MMM") for short month and Format(...,"mm") as your month_sorting
and always have a year filter in effect where it is used

or
use Format(..., "MMM yyyy") for short month and Format (..., "yyyymm") as your month_sorting but this will change your display output.

Re: Month Abbreviation

Br1bn — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:06:15 GMT

The downside of this solution in that now in the tooltip I have also che MonthNumber field when I go over with the mouse