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Abcde_s
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 the youtuber is getting the drop down like year,quarter,month after adding a date column in the area chart,i followed the same procedure but I am not getting that drop down.

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aduguid
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It looks like the image shown with the order date and year, quarter, month and day has the time intelligence option turned on for the current file.

Disable-date-hierachy.png

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Anonymous
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Hi,@Abcde_s  .I am glad to help you.
Hello,@aduguid  .thanks for your concern about this issue.Your answer is excellent!And I would like to share some additional solutions below.
According to your description, when you add the date column to the visual, you don't get the calendar form of the field in the same way as in the video correctly: you can't get the year/quarter/month/day dropdown list!
This is a very common problem:
In Power BI, if there is a date or time/date type field in a table, the system automatically displays it as a date table in the visual presentation, as you see in the video!
like this:
vjtianmsft_0-1719468252018.png

Of course, this assumes that the field has a date hierarchy, which is automatically recognized by the system.
So if you are operating without such a calendar structure, you may need to create the date hierarchy manually.

The system will display the field with the hierarchy in the Data area.

vjtianmsft_0-1719468514511.png

Here is a document on how to set up a date sheet. I hope it will be of some help to you

url:Set and use date tables in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.

Best Regards,

Carson Jian,

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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Anonymous
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Hi,@Abcde_s  .I am glad to help you.
Hello,@aduguid  .thanks for your concern about this issue.Your answer is excellent!And I would like to share some additional solutions below.
According to your description, when you add the date column to the visual, you don't get the calendar form of the field in the same way as in the video correctly: you can't get the year/quarter/month/day dropdown list!
This is a very common problem:
In Power BI, if there is a date or time/date type field in a table, the system automatically displays it as a date table in the visual presentation, as you see in the video!
like this:
vjtianmsft_0-1719468252018.png

Of course, this assumes that the field has a date hierarchy, which is automatically recognized by the system.
So if you are operating without such a calendar structure, you may need to create the date hierarchy manually.

The system will display the field with the hierarchy in the Data area.

vjtianmsft_0-1719468514511.png

Here is a document on how to set up a date sheet. I hope it will be of some help to you

url:Set and use date tables in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

I hope my suggestions give you good ideas, if you have any more questions, please clarify in a follow-up reply.

Best Regards,

Carson Jian,

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

aduguid
Memorable Member
Memorable Member

It looks like the image shown with the order date and year, quarter, month and day has the time intelligence option turned on for the current file.

Disable-date-hierachy.png

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