How to get regular line chart instead of stepped

[Donia12215]

Hi!

I want to show cumulative number of improvements by month but instead of regular line chart I have stepped one. I prepared calednar table, marked colum as date table and added colum with month. For cimulative count I created measure that seems to work well. 

When I use Date as X-axis I get stepped chart that I dont want.

For Month in X-axis I get the line chart I want but I don't like the 1-12 values instead of month names.

Any idea what did I wrong with the first graph?

[Kishore_KVN]

In the drill down and drill up activity use fourth option which is drill down to the next level in the hierarchy and remove quarter and day from the hierarchy to get only month and year. 

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[Donia12215]

I think that after marking Date colum as date table I don't have possibility to use drill down and drill up activity. I added additional column in Calendar table and the used it in the graph.

It works but it is strange that I had step line and would be happy to understand what went wrong. 

[Kishore_KVN]

Hello @Donia12215 can you please share the measure you used for the cummulative calculation. 

[Donia12215]

Sure!

[Kishore_KVN]

Hello @Donia12215 , you can not consider just month while calculating the running total because next year it will not work proper so always use complete date. For example use below calculation for running total and try pulling it into the line visual:

Sales rolling average = 
CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Sales]),
FILTER(ALL('Table'),
'Table'[Dates]<=MAX('Calendar Table'[Date])))

Note: you may need to rewrite it as per your data and column headers. 

[Donia12215]

Good point! Thanks for that!

I adjusted however it still doesn't solv the step line issue

[Kishore_KVN]

Hello @Donia12215 , 

In X-axis select type as categorical instead of continuous then you will get a line instead of a step. 

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[Donia12215]

It partially does, but now I have all dates. How can I roll that to month?