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Anonymous
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Changing value types in power bi

Hello Everyone, 

I have an interest rate table which contains years and according values.  In my year column there are only years like (2017, 2018). The data type of this year table is decimal number and while adding this table to the axis of the line chart it gives me mixed year hierrarchy. So, I know I shoul change the data type of year column to the date type but whenever I try this I get years like 1905/1906.

Can anyone knows how can I deal with it?

 

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Hi , @Anonymous 

Try steps as below:

1.chose field "year " and right click to choose "new hierachy"

 

01.png

 

2.right click field "Quarter" to choose "add to hierachy" ->"Year Hierarchy"

02.png

it will show  as below:

03.png

 

3. Then click "..." in visual to  choose " sort ascending " ,"sort by Year Quarter"  

04.png

 

4.The result will show as below

05.png

If I misunderstand something ,please let me know.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

 

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amitchandak
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Change to text.

Refer the steps in :https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Decoding-Direct-Query-in-Power-BI-Part-1-Time-Intell... . There is a step to change year data type

Appreciate your Kudos.

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Anonymous
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Thank you so much for your response but I could not understand it well. 
As you can see below: My data is like that and when it comes to build line chart on the axis it shows mixed hierarchy.

Here is the detailed view. Table view.PNGgraph view.PNG

@Anonymous , Did not get the error from the screenshot.

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Anonymous
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On the Line chart image take a look at x axis of the line chart.

Hi , @Anonymous 

Try steps as below:

1.chose field "year " and right click to choose "new hierachy"

 

01.png

 

2.right click field "Quarter" to choose "add to hierachy" ->"Year Hierarchy"

02.png

it will show  as below:

03.png

 

3. Then click "..." in visual to  choose " sort ascending " ,"sort by Year Quarter"  

04.png

 

4.The result will show as below

05.png

If I misunderstand something ,please let me know.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

 

Anonymous
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It works now, thank you so much 🙂

 

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