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Anonymous
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Displaying data with date on one axis, and a second field on another.

Firstly, I'm very new to PowerBI - this will become very obvious shortly - and am struggling with what seems like a simple dashboard. I've tried multiple ways, and I'm clearly doing something very wrong.

 

I've successfully imported a table from a database, which contains data on when certain other tables were last updated, over the last couple of days. There's three columns in there - one for the date; one for the table name and one boolean for whether that table was updated on that date.

 

The table contains 75 rows - one entry per table per day; there are 25 tables, and 3 days of data.

 

What I'd like to do is have a simple dashboard displaying the status of each table, for each day. But I can't for the life of me figure out even where to get started with this.

 

It would seem that a scatter graph would display what I'd like, but I can't simply drag both the fields into the visualisation area; the first will be fine, and then the second will either generate an error message, or PowerBI will switch it to use an aggregate (so I'll have table name vs count(days)

 

I've been struggling with this for a couple of days, and I'm at a loss - I think at least part of the problem is that I'm new enough to PowerBI that I don't even know the right questions to ask, so googling is giving me answers, but not to this specific problem. So I'm hoping someone out there can provide a link that will hopefully poinr me in the right direction!

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Could you share some sample data and expected result?

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/m-p/1447523

 

Best Regards,

Jay 

lbendlin
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Super User

Start with a matrix visual. Tables as rows, dates as columns, status as values.

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