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Microsoft EmployeeSwitch X Axis column through a slicer filter
Super UserHi htaunay
One method is to do someting similar to what Anonymous did here:
http://tinylizard.com/dynamically-changing-chart-axis/
In your case, you would need to start with a DateTime table with datetime/day/month/year columns, which you then unpivot, and add a column identifying the granularity. The resulting table (let's call it DateTimeGranularity) provides a many-to-many relationship between DateTime and the values you want on your axis at the different levels of granularity.
You also need to add a column to enforce sort order.
In Power BI, you can then create a bi-directional relationship between the DateTimeGranularity table and the DateTime table, so that filtering on the Time Granularity column (DateTime, Date etc) also filters the DateTime table.
I've uploaded a dummy pbix file illustrating this which should make it clearer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aoflh2unznifyac/DateTime%20Granularity%20Selection.pbix?dl=1
The data model looks like this:
Note: you can also use drilldown on visualizations if you have a hierarchy of axis labels - I added another tab in the file illustrating this.
Owen :)
Great post.
Are you sure there is no other way? like we used to do with MDX? by replacing sets?
vanessaPost Patron
Any work around for this, using DAX with SWITCH?
mws5872Helper II
this works great except in cases where you add weekend date and quarter and the dates correspond with a month end for example.
Then you are not allowed to sort by the column because it does not have a unique value. any ideas?
the Datekey is joined to the date table but the time value order is what is being used to sort. you see it will not work as there is not a unique value.
Attribute DateControl DateKey Value Time Value Order Month 1 8/1/2021 0:00 8/1/2021 5137 WeekEnd 0 8/1/2021 0:00 8/1/2021 4935 - mws5872
OwenAuger Thanks for this idea it works very well except in the situation I ran into. you can see my post below. thanks for this !
Seward12533Solution Sage
Try using multiple charts that you selectively show/hide with bookmarks and selection pane and use buttons to switch between them. I use this method extensively.
So you woudl have 5 version of the chart and create bookmarks with only one of these shown. Then create buttons linked to those bookmarks. (tip when saving bookmark be sure to uncheck the data propery of the bookmark so it only remembers which visuals to display and does not reset any filters.
- mws5872
no, because the next step is to include charts with dynamic labels if that make sense. say breakdown by products on the label or by regions on the labels. so then it would be 5 X the number of breakdowns. so just for those two I mentioned I would need 10 charts....
5 for the dates X 2 diferent types ( I am planning more than 2.... probably 8 different mix types..
Excellent solution OwenAuger, thanks! Just a question, how do you use the order column in your visuals afterwards?
- OwenAuger
Hi Anonymous
Are you asking about the Time Value Order column in my sample pbix file?
That column is used as the sort-by column for Time Value Text. Since Time Value Text contains a mixture of granularities (Date, DateTime, Month and Year in my case), it is impossible to sort this column based on its own values.
So Time Value Order is not directly used in any visuals, but set as the sort-by column for Time Value Text in Modeling = > Sort by Column. I also hid it in report view as the end user has no use for it.
Regards,
Owen
It's the Modeling -> Sort by column, thanks!
