Line Chart with Months per Column

[KatieH]

HI all,

I am a beginner user on Power BI and would really appreciate some help.

I have inherited some excel reports and need to create some dashboards off the back of them. 

The columns are:

Client name (unique),

Region (each client is in a preset region of 1-10, with multiple clients in each), 

There is then a column for each month of the current year with the sales figure in each.

I would like to create a line chart with the months along the x axis, and a line for each different regions but, because each month has its own column, I cannot get it to do this.

Can anyone help??

Thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @KatieH,

As sokg said, you can simple to unpivot column function to achieve your requirement.

Steps:

1. Select these month column.
2. Click "unpivot columns" button to convert these columns to "Attribute" and "Value" columns.
3. Create line chart adn drag "Attribute" to Axis, "Region" to legend, "Value" to Values fileds.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Anonymous]

It works.

And how to sort data month wise in this chart? e.g. Jan, Feb, March way rather than alphabetical sort? 

[omelo]

Did you manage to get the sorting working?

I'm looking for a solution!

Thank you

[KatieH]

This is brilliant!

Thank you so much to both of you for your help:)

[sokg]

Try unpivot columns in power query.