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Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

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David Hartung on 26 Sep 2018 05:53:31

Please allow users to specify the date format in which dates should appear on the X axis on visualizations.
At present, dates display with times in the X axis if space is available. My data does not have time, and so displays meaningless 12 AM values after the date. I attempted a calculated column using DAX to format date as "m/d" but the visualization continued displaying with meaningless 12 AM values. Changing the model to a non-time format such as text allowed effective sorting, but not treating the data as continuous, which prevents use of trend lines.
Please allow users to specify the date format in which dates should appear on the X axis on visualizations.

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Richard Aten on 19 Dec 2022 21:44:32

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

It is terrible that I cannot tell what year it is when i only have a few data points in continuous mode. Please fix this!

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Vietanh Nguyen on 17 Aug 2022 04:28:07

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

can't believe this simple request has not done yet.My date column doesn't have time value, but when I use it as X-axis, continuous, it shows time in the visual, and of course no value for that point.

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Brian Wall on 12 May 2022 16:20:47

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

Running into this with latest install. Would be nice to have this taken care of. Thanks!

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Jiwei Li on 16 Oct 2021 21:53:31

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

It is a very basic function but power doesn't have. It's really very disappointed. Please add it asap!!!!!!!!!!

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HHSD Form on 20 Aug 2021 16:15:29

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

Please add this feature! :)

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Tasmin Langley on 18 Jun 2021 11:10:29

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

This is really confusing for my report users and has been a problem for a while - please can this be fixed soon!

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Dan F on 24 Mar 2021 09:56:16

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

It's been over two years since this request was submitted. Right now we have to choose between using Categorical and seeing all our dates on the x-axis but trends are disabled, or Continuous with zero control over the date labels on the x-axis but we get trends. Please let us have the best of both worlds?

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Brannon Walden on 13 Dec 2020 01:53:20

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

I've created a date table with a column for month name but as a continuous variable using date as the type. I've formatted the properties to "mmm", but despite this formatting, charts in power bi still display "mmm yyyy" and can't be fixed. Why? The only work around is to create a month number and use that instead. Very disappointing that the formatting works in the table, but not in charts. I would love for our friends in development to help us out with this problem. Thank you.

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Eric Lee on 23 Sep 2020 01:34:34

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

it should be a basic function and we're waiting it for too long, please add it.

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karthik marupakla on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:32

RE: Allow Formatting of Dates in X Axis with Continuous Data

Essential feature for pixel perfect uniform appeal in reports .