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KrisW
Helper I
Helper I

Stacked Area Chart - Inconsistent Display

I am fairly new to Power BI having taken over for our "expert" who decided to leave the company. I am going through the file verifying filters, format, etc The Stacked Area Charts are driving me crazy! All are configured the same, similar underlying data. I *want* MONTH-YEAR to be displayed. There are 2 charts side by side on each page & sometimes I can simply delete, copy the correct one & edit it so the I have 2 displaying correctly. Then I have the pages/charts that just do not want to co-operate. Suggestions anyone?

 

Kris

 

 

Desired - MMM-YYYYDesired - MMM-YYYYDisplaying year onlyDisplaying year onlyDisplaying month onlyDisplaying month only

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v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

@KrisW,

What field do you drag to the X-Axis of these charts and which table does the field come from? If you only want Month-Year to be displayed, you can create a MonthYear calculated column in the table, then drag it to X-Axis of your charts,

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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@KrisW wrote:

I am using a "transaction date" field, displaying hierarchy for year & month. 



@KrisW,

In this scenario, you can display all charts in Month-Year format as long as you choose the third button to drill down charts,

1.JPG2.JPG

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

View solution in original post

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v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

@KrisW,

What field do you drag to the X-Axis of these charts and which table does the field come from? If you only want Month-Year to be displayed, you can create a MonthYear calculated column in the table, then drag it to X-Axis of your charts,

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

I am using a "transaction date" field, displaying hierarchy for year & month. I am begining to think that a calculated character field might be the only means of achieving consistancy in the display. Just a tad resentful that I might have to re-write the code generating nearly 50 reports to add the column for Power BI.

I also noted that quarters seemed to be assumed according to calendar year, I might need to add a calculated field for that as well.


@KrisW wrote:

I am using a "transaction date" field, displaying hierarchy for year & month. 



@KrisW,

In this scenario, you can display all charts in Month-Year format as long as you choose the third button to drill down charts,

1.JPG2.JPG

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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