Hello, I was wondering if there's a workaround for this. I'd like to "activate" the trendline / forecast line without using time as x-axis. (see screenshot below)
By using fiscal calendar (starting on April 1 which ends Mar 31 on the following year), it is often use Period or Quarter for simplicity. However, as you can see, if using Period or Quarter), I was unable to activate those nice features such as trendline or forecast line. If I were using Month, it would sort itself out starting from January to December. I can work with April until next
@ANGLEUNG exactly, so you have to come up with your own measure, that x-axis type option will not be available for text columns.
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@ANGLEUNG Yes those are only available if the x-axis type is continuous, not categorical. You can create your own measures to achieve the result, there is nothing else you can do about it.
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