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Custom Format Currency
Hi Community,
I have formatted my dollar values as $#,##,,.0\M in the model tab under Properties to make it appear as Millions everywhere.
In a scatter plot that I am using, the axis appears like this-
How do I fix this to get the
expected -
with tooltip also showing values in Millions.
Eg Dollar - $1500.4M
Hi Anonymous ,
After formatting, the format of the data will conflict with the display unit in the x-axis attribute. You can copy the previously unformatted columns as the x-axis, and set the display unit in the x-axis attribute.
Best Regards,
Liang
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4 Replies
Anonymous , Try like
$#,##0.0\M
amitchandak - I am already using that. The X-axis is not looking very clean if I do that.
Anonymous I think what you need to do is to create another column and divide your original column with one million to convert it into millions and then use the format provided by amitchandak and use this new column on x-axis
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Hi Anonymous ,
After formatting, the format of the data will conflict with the display unit in the x-axis attribute. You can copy the previously unformatted columns as the x-axis, and set the display unit in the x-axis attribute.
Best Regards,
Liang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
