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Anonymous
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How to change the x axis on a date

I am wondering how to change the  x axis spacing on one of my graph I have the following x axis

 

afleiderman1_0-1671551710137.png

But I want something  instead of by month I want something by the first day of month something like this

afleiderman1_1-1671551777225.png

But I cannot figure it out how to do this.

I have a dates column which is every 7 days 

afleiderman1_2-1671551843013.png

Not sure how to do this.

 

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Shaurya
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Hi @Anonymous

 

Create a new column for Month Start Date.

 

Month Start = STARTOFMONTH('Table'[Date])

 

Mark this post as a solution if that works for you!
Check out this blog of mine: How to Export Telemetry Data from Azure IoT Central into Power BI

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Shaurya
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Hi @Anonymous

 

Create a new column for Month Start Date.

 

Month Start = STARTOFMONTH('Table'[Date])

 

Mark this post as a solution if that works for you!
Check out this blog of mine: How to Export Telemetry Data from Azure IoT Central into Power BI

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