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MartinDK57
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Line chart X-axis. Continous by Date (DD/MM) and time (HH:MM)

I have struggled to find a solution to problem with X-axis on a line chart. 

I have some climate data with 10 minutes resolution. I want a line chart with up to 7 days historical data. I have a column in the query with Date/Time, e.g. 10/05/2025 10:00. If I use this column as X-axis I can only chose from year, quarter, month, day but not time. I have managed (with my limited skills) to separate the Date/time column in one column with date and one column with time. These columns are formatted as Date and Time. But if I use these two columns as X-axis I cannot choose Continous.

 

I can use the Time column as X-axis, as Continous. But then I can only use the timer from midnight as historical data. If I choose 24 hours or e.g. 2 days the data values will be summed or averaged for the time points.

 

Current line chart:

Line chart.jpg

 

Name of date column (With date (dd/mm/yyyy and time): Date

Name of "short date" column: dd/mm

Name of Time column: Time

 

How I would like the X-axis to look like:

00:00 00:10 00:20 ............................ 00:00 00:10 00:20 ................. 00:00 00:10 00:20

          08/05                                          09/05                                  10/05

 

I prefer to not have a scroll bar on the X-axis, hence the X-axis must be continous.

 

/Martin         

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MartinDK57
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Thank you for your patience Ibendlin.

 

New link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXySheFrKEtmCYLuhZdW3j7HEQBBX6FR/view?usp=drive_link

 

In the above I have used "Time" column as X-axis. Time is the time from the "Date"-column which comntains date and time. With "Time" I can select Continous x-axis. If I select "date" I cannot select continous. The date-column is formated as date/time.

MartinDK57
Frequent Visitor

Thank you for your patience Ibendlin. 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXySheFrKEtmCYLuhZdW3j7HEQBBX6FR/view?usp=sharing

 

In the above I have chosen "Time" as X-axis. Time is the time from the "Date" column. I can select "Continous" when Time is selcted. But when I select "Date" I cannot select continous. The Date column is formatted as Date/Time

 

lbendlin
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You should be able to use the original datetime field on the X axis as is. 

 

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Thank you for your patience

 

I ask like this:

I have a data table with climate data (temperature etc.). The resolution is 10 minutes. I want to make a visual (line chart) with all the data visualised for a time period of 5 days. All the data points must be show - not summarised or averaged. Hence, the x-axis must be continous.

 

In the query I have a column named "Date". The column is formatted as Date/time. This column contains date and time, dd-mm-yy hh:mm:ss

 

I have duplicated this column and transformed it to time only. This column is named "Time" and formatted as Time.

 

If I choose "Date" as my X-axis, I cannot select continous (not shown). I only get a summarised or average value per day. 

If I chose "Time" as my x-axis, I can choose continous and data for each 10 minutes is shown individually. But if I select more than the last 24 hours, the values per timestamp will be summarised or averaged.

 

If I choose "Date" and only Day from the hierachy and add "Time" to the x-axis, again I cannot select continous.

 

pbix

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXySheFrKEtmCYLuhZdW3j7HEQBBX6FR/view?usp=drive_link

 

CSV datafile

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Px8Yd2Z4dvUcXLzHLZz9Eo5HdeSoq6rR/view?usp=drive_link

 

 

 

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