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kault
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Helper II

Grouping Dates By Month

I have a column in table "Accounts" called "Created Date". In a line chart, the data is showing by day. I want it to show by month.

 

I have spent two hours trying to figure this out myself. I created a "date table". I set a many:many relationship between Accounts(Created Date) and Date(Date). The line chart is still not grouping by month.

 

What am I missing?

 

 

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V-pazhen-msft
Community Support
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@kault 

You can just use date hierarchy remove day, quarter and year, use month as the axis. See example:

V-pazhen-msft_1-1606272837059.png

V-pazhen-msft_2-1606272849676.png


Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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Syndicate_Admin
Administrator
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Click on the date field. The "Column Tool" option is enabled above in the horizontal bar.

In that tab click on "Data Group"

New data group

Discretization size you mark 1 and select month, or 2 and month and year, etc.

Ready.

V-pazhen-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@kault 

You can just use date hierarchy remove day, quarter and year, use month as the axis. See example:

V-pazhen-msft_1-1606272837059.png

V-pazhen-msft_2-1606272849676.png


Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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MattAllington
Community Champion
Community Champion

Why do you have a many to many relationship?  It should be one to many. Do you have a month column in your calendar table that you are using?  You should have. You also need a sort column for month to over ride the alpha sort order. 

I have a general article on calendar tables here https://exceleratorbi.com.au/power-pivot-calendar-tables/



* Matt is an 8 times Microsoft MVP (Power BI) and author of the Power BI Book Supercharge Power BI.
I will not give you bad advice, even if you unknowingly ask for it.

Thanks. I have changed it to many:one and still don't understand what to do.

 

Here is my date table dax:

date dax.jpg

 

Here is my date table:

date table.jpg

 

Here is how my visualization is set up:

date fields.jpg

 

Here is what I am seeing (this is what I want to group by month):

date graph.jpg

Remove CreatedDate from settings, leave only YearMonthShort

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