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Issues with plotting two summed values in a line chart
kcngnkc The data within your Time and Fiscal Week columns need to match. You may notice that both measures (PT_ACT and PT_TGT) are showing high values for 'blank'
Is this what your Calendar table looks like in the actual file? It needs a bit of cleansing if so. Your Fiscal Week column should ONLY have Fiscal Week, but it also has 'FY19', "Year" and other values that don't fit the pattern.
Your Time column in the EEF table has the same problem. You need to cleanse the data first so that the Time and Period are consistent, matching and only contain 1 piece of information (ie Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, ...). The Fiscal Year should go in another column. Your Calendar table should have every date for all years, and you should use a date key of sorts to link the EEF table to the Calendar table. My recommendation would be having a 'Start of Week' column in the EEF table that is a datekey such as '20200517' (YYYYMMdd) and link that to the DateKey column in the Calendar table once you have gotten your calendar table cleansed and sorted.
Try this link for some help with a robust calendar table:
https://www.mattmasson.com/2014/02/creating-a-date-dimension-with-a-power-query-script/
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How is the calendar table linked to the data you're trying to plot? It's not clear from your screenshot.
What that chart tells me is that the column used to link the EEF table to the calendar table is either empty or contains values that do not exist in the column in the calendar table that is being used as the link/relationship.
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Hi Allison, you have brought up a similar suggestion by JD. My "time" column in EFF table (which is comprised of fiscal weeks, fiscal period, etc) is linked to my calendar table's Fiscal Week column. The time column in the EFF table is also used for the PT_ACT, yet it's rcognizing it, so why is it not doing the same for PT_TGT?
kcngnkc The data within your Time and Fiscal Week columns need to match. You may notice that both measures (PT_ACT and PT_TGT) are showing high values for 'blank'
Is this what your Calendar table looks like in the actual file? It needs a bit of cleansing if so. Your Fiscal Week column should ONLY have Fiscal Week, but it also has 'FY19', "Year" and other values that don't fit the pattern.
Your Time column in the EEF table has the same problem. You need to cleanse the data first so that the Time and Period are consistent, matching and only contain 1 piece of information (ie Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, ...). The Fiscal Year should go in another column. Your Calendar table should have every date for all years, and you should use a date key of sorts to link the EEF table to the Calendar table. My recommendation would be having a 'Start of Week' column in the EEF table that is a datekey such as '20200517' (YYYYMMdd) and link that to the DateKey column in the Calendar table once you have gotten your calendar table cleansed and sorted.
Try this link for some help with a robust calendar table:
https://www.mattmasson.com/2014/02/creating-a-date-dimension-with-a-power-query-script/
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