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hrmeehan
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Date Hierarchy stopped working

I have been running reports for about 6 months now and everything is fine. 3 months ago, all my reports suddenly "broke" and now the dates are separating out by days instead of summing into month/year. I can use the date slicer, but it sums all the years into the month (January contains totals of 2015-2018). I want it to show a trend of months over years. I know this is probably a really stupid question, but I cannot figure out what happened. 

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v-yulgu-msft
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Hi @hrmeehan,

 

Did you add a date column onto X-axis of a chart? If so, you can click the drill down option on the top left to switch the aggregation level (Day, Month or Year).

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

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If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

It turned out to be something simple. I did format the column as a date, but I had to set it to "Start of month" in order for it to roll the days into the month. Thanks!

MattAllington
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Take a look at my time intelligence webinar. It should help you. 

 

https://exceleratorbi.com.au/time-intelligence-using-dax/



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

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