Issue with Drilldown understanding

[nsadams87xx]

I have a line graph that is showing patient volume per hour and I want to have the graph show the volumes by month.  The trick is I want the graph to slow a year's worth of previous data starting with the current date.  However when I make a date hierarchy and drill down to my month, the graph shows my months in either ascending, descending, or date order.  After thinking about it, that does make sense but it's odd that I had this working the way I want before but now isn't.  I had this done before but I redid my data model because it was insanely inefficient but when I rebuilt the graph it's not behaving in the same way.

What I had and want:

What I currently have and don't want:

[v-jiascu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @nsadams87xx ,

It seems the X-axis isn't a hierarchy as we can see from your images. Please refer to the snapshot below and correct the X-axis.

Best Regards,

[v-jiascu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @nsadams87xx ,

It seems the X-axis isn't a hierarchy as we can see from your images. Please refer to the snapshot below and correct the X-axis.

Best Regards,

[nsadams87xx]

So this is an interesting observation.  My old copy has a hierarchy which I modified for my needs (just took out "day") but it appears to have been auto generated. 

My new copy does not have this characteristic.

[nsadams87xx]

I just figured out that me marking my date dimension table as a date table was causing this issue.  I'll accept a solution.  Why is that though?  Is it because if you mark a date table as such it expects you to handle the table completely on your own?

[v-jiascu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @nsadams87xx ,

That's true. The "Mark as date table" gives the full control of dates to the analysts. Please refer to desktop-date-tables#setting-your-own-date-table for details.

Best Regards,

[nsadams87xx]

Thank you.