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bsheffer
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Forcast option disappears when I drilldown

I have a date hierarchy

     year

     quarterno

     month mmm

     date

 

value is a sales total measure

 

I want to drilldown and show a forcast on quarters

 

at the year level I can create the forcast, but as soon as I drilldown to the quarterno it disappears and I don't have the option on my analytics menu.  How can I fix this?

 

 

 

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bsheffer
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I was using a hierarchy in a date table that was built from the date field.  However this only seems to work with powerbi generated date hierarchies.  Once I turned off the date table and powerbi autogenerated hierarchies for all the date fields I was able to use forcast with one of them.

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bsheffer
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I was using a hierarchy in a date table that was built from the date field.  However this only seems to work with powerbi generated date hierarchies.  Once I turned off the date table and powerbi autogenerated hierarchies for all the date fields I was able to use forcast with one of them.

Hi Guys 

I need code to obtain forcast values as same as below table ,  would appreciate your assistance 

 

WeekSubmissionSubmittedForcast
W12520 
W23523 
W335 38.5
W425 38.5

 

Thanks

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Hi  @bsheffer  ,

 

Ensure there is no fields in Legend area and you are using Date column in Axis area.
You will only get forecasting option when on x-axis you've used column that is of type datetime / number, it won't work with other data type columns. Also it requires more than six data points on x-axis to forecast.

 

This is related content, hope to help you:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Forecasting-tab-not-available/m-p/75281

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Forecasting-feature-in-analytics-pane-is-missing/m-p/707613

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Forecasting-feature-is-missing/m-p/157266

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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