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CSteff
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How to present quarterly data in a continuous monthly chart?

Hi everyone! I hope you can help me with my little conundrum.. 

 

I have a set of data by quarter (quarterly sales targets) and I need to present them as a continuous line on a monthly chart. How do I do it? Is it a matter of a formatting option or does it require a dedicated measure? Note that the values are cumulative.
Thanks in advance!

 

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amitchandak
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@CSteff , continuous axis can be used with date (Month start Date, Qtr Start date, Date etc) Or number (Month Number, Qtr No etc)

 

With axis type

Axis_type.png

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arcadio
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Hello,

I'm having the exact same issue. I have my quarterly results (as a last day of the quarter), and my monthly results (as a last date of a month) in one table.

 

When I try to visualize it, I get only dots for the quarterly results:

 

IMG_20231219_115302.jpg

 

But when I put month numbers (1, 2, 3), instead of labels (January, February...) it works:

IMG_20231219_115557.jpg

 

But I cannot really show numbers instead of months' name. Is there any workaround for this?

 

Thank you in advance

Ok, I think I solved it. I had to change the type of my Period table to Date (it was set to text).

 

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amitchandak
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@CSteff , continuous axis can be used with date (Month start Date, Qtr Start date, Date etc) Or number (Month Number, Qtr No etc)

 

With axis type

Axis_type.png

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Microsoft Fabric Series 60+ Videos YouTube
Microsoft Fabric Hindi End to End YouTube

Thank you! That was it and it solved my problem. 

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