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HVSC
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Plot multiple quarterly data

I'm trying to make a simple chart of sales per quarter, but over a three year period, not just quarters aggregated. This is very easy in Tableau (pictured). I'm just getting years OR quarters.  Can ...
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BhaveshPatel's avatar
BhaveshPatel
Super User
9 years ago

Putting a year and Quarters to the axis field can generate the expected output

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HVSC
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

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).

 


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  • BhaveshPatel's avatar
    BhaveshPatel
    Super User
    9 years ago

    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))

     

     

    • HVSC's avatar
      HVSC
      Regular Visitor
      9 years ago

      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. 

      • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
        v-huizhn-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi HVSC,

        Personally, I recommend you that submit the requirement at this site.  If the requirement mentioned by customers for many times, the product team may consider to add this feature in the next Power BI version. Your feedback is valuable for us to improve our products and increase the level of service provided. Thanks a lot.

        Best Regards,
        Angelia