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Auto date/time vs manually created hierarchies
NiklasBergh Well, if by selectively you mean that you could not use the auto date/time date hierarchies in some instances, yes. You would just create your own year, quarter and day columns and use those versus the date column and it's hierarchy. I am not aware of a way to make a manual hierarchy behave like what you are describing with the auto date/time intelligence hierarchy in regards to the continuous axis.
Memorable MemberNiklasBergh I could be mistaken but I don't think that you have this quite right. The hierarchy created by Auto Time Intelligence is Year/Quarter/Month/Day. When you drag a Date into a field for a visual, it defaults to the that hierarchy but you can switch it to just the Date field if you so desire. This is a UI thing, not a property of the hierarchy. It is the UI trying to be "helpful". However, it is still the same hierarchy versus column under the hood, the same as if you created the hierarchy manually. You just don't get the UI "benefit" of being able to drag the date column into a field for a visual and have it automatically use the hierarchy versus the date column. You have to either drag the date column into the field or drag the hierarchy into the field when you create the hierarchy manually.