Changing date-format on x-axis

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

in my chart, the X-axis acts as the time axis, I would like to format this differently.

I have already searched for entries in the forum, but have not found anything helpful yet.

Currently the chart looks like this:

But I want it to look like this (Screenshot is taken from Tableau):

used data colum looks like this and is classified as data-type "Date":

Thanks in advance!

[v-jayw-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Go to format pane, change the type of x-axis to "Categorical".

Then change the format of the date column to what you want it to look like.

Best Regards,

Jay

[NotMyJob]

Catagorial is not in the current format.

[Anonymous]

thank you for your support!
However, by setting type to categorial, a taskbar appears for the X-axis - which is not wanted. 

It seems that PowerBi does not allow the formatting of the axes...

[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , You can create a custom column with sort order column.

But that will not give you continuous axis , as that will be text type column

Month Year = FORMAT([Date],"mm-yyyy")
Month Year sort = FORMAT([Date],"yyyymm")

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column