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Line chart X axis only shows year
Hello,
I am using a Date column for the X axis on a line chart.
It only shows the year and I cannot drill down to quarter, month or day.
Could you help me figure out what am I missing?
Thank you
Joaquim
Anonymous
Currently, it's not supported to put entire hierarchy into a line chart axis so that we can't drill down in line chart as Nhallquist mentioned. It can't resolve a continuous line when drilling down to different level data. So to use drill down, I suggest you use column chart.
Regards,
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I fought this for a while too. Make sure you don't have the Date Hierarcy checked in the chart settings. Wherever your Date field is in the Visualization settings, drop-down the little arrow and make sure Date has a green check, and not the Date Heirarchy.
This is what usually happens to me, so try there first.
Hi Nhallquist
If I choose just Date, not Date Hierarchy, I get all dates. I wanted to be able to drill down the data per Quarter or Month.
See image below.
Anonymous I would recommend you add a date table so that you can use any time period you want. This blog is a quick way to create a calculated date table. And this blog outlines how to do it with "M". The value of always having a date lookup/dimension table is that you can easily parse your data by any time period in that date table.
