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Anonymous
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5 years ago
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Forecasting won't work!

I'm trying to get a projected revenue for the next few months, but it doesn't seem to work.   While researching, it says it has to be on a line chart, with a number and a date.  So here is the scre...
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    v-robertq-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi, Anonymous 

    According to your description, I’ve also created some data to do some tests. Then I found that the forecast function will be enabled when you placed the entire Date hierarchy or the data column into the line chart(not the month part of the Date hierarchy), like this:

     

    One blog about the guidance of “Forecasting in Power BI”

     

    If you still have a problem, you can just upload your sample pbix file and I can help you in advance.

    Thank you very much!

     

    Best Regards,

    Community Support Team _Robert Qin

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Jihwan_Kim
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5 years ago

Hi,

Please try to use the date column, instead of using calculated column.

 

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    even when I do just a date (using the month) it doesn't show up 😕