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Line Chart, with comparison time
Unicorn_Tech you need to set relationship between date table and your original table and then you can use parallelperiod function as described in the link.
Unicorn_Tech As a best practice, add date dimension in your model and use it for and time intelligence calculations. Once the date dimension is added, mark it as a date table on table tools.
https://perytus.com/2020/05/22/create-a-basic-date-table-in-your-data-model-for-time-intelligence-calculations/
Once you have date dimension in your model, you can use previousday, previousmonth, previousyear, all these time intelligence functions in your measure
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@parry2k, that sounds like what I need exactly, but I might need a bit more of an explanation here. I have a single table, that has dates, and pageviews. I take it you aren't suggesting an additional column, and I did build a seperate table of Dates, per the link you hd put in.
Currently, the date table I created and my original table are unrelated. How does the Timeline dax fit into this now?
I think the timeline feature I'm most interested in is PARALLELPERIOD