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Anonymous
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Line Chart Timeline

Halo im new here, i have a data from december 21 - april 22, when i visualize it with line chart, december 2021 come after april 2022, how to fix it? i have visualized it before and it work fine, but when i do it again it show like this:

  linechart2.png

 

linechart1.png

 

linechart3.png

 

here's the data

date.png

 

 

 

 

 

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , if toy have month year column

Month Year = FORMAT([Date],"mmm-yyyy")

 

you need a sort column
Month Year sort = FORMAT([Date],"yyyymm")

 

mark Month Year sort  as sort column for Month Year from column tools

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column

 

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , if toy have month year column

Month Year = FORMAT([Date],"mmm-yyyy")

 

you need a sort column
Month Year sort = FORMAT([Date],"yyyymm")

 

mark Month Year sort  as sort column for Month Year from column tools

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column

 

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