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staceyrain
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6 years ago
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Dynamic Date Axis

I have seen lots of tutorials on adjust charts based on slicers, but I'd like to use one chart page for several projects and have the x-axis change the start and end date accordingly when someone selects a project.  I don't feel the end user should have to go select the appropriate date range. 

 

I am connected to a PWA report server, so I have a project table and task table and have a query that is filtered down to the tasks I have graphed in a burn-down chart.  I have created a date table that shows the w/e Friday dates for all weeks between the first basline finish date and the last baseline finish date.  Unfortunately these vary widely between projects and I can't get the chart to change the dates on the axis based on the project I've selected.  Has anyone seen a tutorial on this?  I've even got a table that grouped all the projects to show the first w/e date and last w/e date for each project, but can't figure out how to use that as a filter against the date table I created.

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      staceyrain
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      6 years ago

      That might be the solution, but I sure couldn't make it work.  I tried a few different methods and can't get the dates to filter based on the project selected.  I have a table that shows the project name and the minimum and maximum dates that should be on the chart (CRMinMaxFinDates) and created this measure, but that's a list and won't work as a filter, so I did the same thing, making it a dynamic table and tried to use the column from that table as the X-Axis, but it doesn't filter when I select the project.

      FilteredDates =
      VAR Date1 = LOOKUPVALUE(CRMinMaxFinDates[MinDate],CRMinMaxFinDates[PROJECTID],SELECTEDVALUE(Tasks[Projects.PROJECTID]))-7
      VAR Date2 = LOOKUPVALUE(CRMinMaxFinDates[MaxDate],CRMinMaxFinDates[PROJECTID],SELECTEDVALUE(Tasks[Projects.PROJECTID]))
      RETURN DATESBETWEEN(WEDates[WEDate],Date1,Date2)
       
      I did also try your method of creating an IF measure to return a 1 or 0 but when I add it as a filter and select only the 1's the chart has no dates and I suspect my MIN MAX functions are not correct, but I can't figure out how to refrence the dates on the X-Axis.
      DateCheck =
      VAR Date1 = LOOKUPVALUE(CRMinMaxFinDates[MinDate],CRMinMaxFinDates[PROJECTID],SELECTEDVALUE(Tasks[Projects.PROJECTID]))-7
      VAR Date2 = LOOKUPVALUE(CRMinMaxFinDates[MaxDate],CRMinMaxFinDates[PROJECTID],SELECTEDVALUE(Tasks[Projects.PROJECTID]))
      VAR FlagDateCheck =
      IF(
      MIN(DateTableQuery[WeekEndDate])<Date1
      || MAX(DateTableQuery[WeekEndDate])>Date2,
      0,1)
      RETURN FlagDateCheck
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        staceyrain
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        6 years ago

        I got it to work by replacing the MIN and MAX in the IF statement with SELECTEDVALUE.  I thought when I'd done that initially it didn't work, but it does seem to.  Thanks for your help.