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Plot multiple quarterly data
Thanks very much. When I do that it only shows data for quarters aggregated (Q1 sales from 2014, 2015, and 2016 summed). How do I show quarterly data for all years? I know I am missing something simple.
Putting a year and Quarters to the axis field can generate the expected output
Bhavesh -- Thank you. It looks like in your example, there are two seperate fields; one for year and one for quarter. Did you copy the date into two seperate columns and format one as year and one as quarter? My data contains one date field (named "create_date" as picutred).
.The suggested practice to work with date related data in powerbi is to create a calender table with all contiguous dates to correctly calculate the time intelligence calculations.
I have created a Year and Quarters Columns in my date table using the syntex below:
Year=YEAR(CalenderTable[Date])
Quarter=CONCATENATE("Q",ROUNDUP(MONTH([Date])/3,0))
Thanks very much for your help - I really apprecaitate it. This enables the kind of chart I wanted to create. Unfortunately it is a very unsatisfactory solution. In Tableau it is not neccessary to create additional columns, calculated fields, or tables -- this chart format is available with one click.
Moreover, this blows out the forecasting functionality, and this is a fatal flaw. Naturally I need quarterly forecasting going forward, based on three years of quarterly data.
So far I find BI to be vastly inferior to Tableau -- I hope some of these features are developed but I don't have time to waste.