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ld17
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4 years ago
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Showing zero on a line graph using DimDate

I'm trying to create a line graph that shows incident trends by month over the last four years. I have a "year" column , a "month" column, and an "incident" column, but for some months, there is no d...
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    ld17
    4 years ago

    Thank you for this! I had seen a similar solution posted elsewhere, but I had some confusion with which measure I was adding zero to since I don't have any measures already applied to this particular graph.

    The solution that ended up working for me was to create a DimDate table and follow the steps and add the code from this site. One change I had to make was to use Date.EndofMonth instead of Date.EndofYear, because I only wanted it to count this year's data up to this month since the remaining months in this year haven't happened yet.

    Then I had to create a relationship between the date column in my original table and the date column in the DimDate table. Then I added the following DAX expression to my new table: 

     

    COUNT OF INCIDENTS = 

    VAR _INCIDENTS = COUNT ('Table name'[Column name]) 

    RETURN 

    IF (ISBLANK(_INCIDENTS),0,_INCIDENTS)

ld17's avatar
ld17
Helper II
4 years ago

Thank you for this! I had seen a similar solution posted elsewhere, but I had some confusion with which measure I was adding zero to since I don't have any measures already applied to this particular graph.

The solution that ended up working for me was to create a DimDate table and follow the steps and add the code from this site. One change I had to make was to use Date.EndofMonth instead of Date.EndofYear, because I only wanted it to count this year's data up to this month since the remaining months in this year haven't happened yet.

Then I had to create a relationship between the date column in my original table and the date column in the DimDate table. Then I added the following DAX expression to my new table: 

 

COUNT OF INCIDENTS = 

VAR _INCIDENTS = COUNT ('Table name'[Column name]) 

RETURN 

IF (ISBLANK(_INCIDENTS),0,_INCIDENTS)

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi ld17 ,

 

Since you didn't have a measure, are you putting a column or a calculated column?

Then you can create a measure, use the SUM function to get the sum of the fields you want, and then add 0.

For example,

Measure = SUM('Table'[ColumnNmae]) + 0

 

 

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

 

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