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Pimmoz
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How to show date / time in final chart?

Hi all,

 

Anyone know how I can show the decimal value back to time (HH:MM) like in this time plot chart? Many thanks in advance.

 

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Tbh, I really find it strange for Power BI and Excel (Power Pivot) to present such difficulty concerning the showing of time / dates as values in (pivot) charts while calculating with them is so well done and very easy.

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BhaveshPatel
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Go to the Modelling Tab, Select the Foratting option, Select the correct data type (Time) and format as HH:MM.

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Bhavesh

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Thanks for your aswer,

 

I've thought that would be the answer but as show in the below image these option are grayed out.

 

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Perhaps it has something to do with the query formating options?

 

Many thanks in advance.

Hi @Pimmoz,

 

In your scenario, the data type of column [Max of duration] is decimal, it can be displayed well in a chart according to the length of bars. However, if you force to change its format to HH:MM, the data type will be changed to text. The chart cannot display as before because Y-axis only supports numerical value, if adding text value on Y-axis, it will be aggregated by default.

 

Thanks,
Yuliana Gu

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