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    Chronological ordering of dates in Powerpivot/ Power View

    Hi,

    I am looking for some help in sorting dates using PowerPivot. I have looked online and I have found solutions to do this but my problem is a bit different due to the nature of my source data and hence the reason for my post. My ultimate goal is to create a pretty little scatter chart with the dates ordered chronologically using Power View

    So here is my scenario- I have, as my source data, a column which contains individual days of the month and another column with the number of calls that were made to the service desk on each of those days. Below is a sample of

    Date Number of Calls
    01/04/2014 57
    02/04/2014 34
    03/04/2014 48
    04/04/2014 38
    07/04/2014 41
    08/04/2014 36
    09/04/2014 22
    10/04/2014 38

    As you can see, the dates are formatted as dd/mm/yyyy

    When I try to plot this on a scatter chart, as expected, I get a trend for each of the individual days and the whole scatter chart is difficult to comprehend due to all the bubbles trailing about the screen. What I am trying to achieve is to create a scatter chart for every month in chronological order instead of every single day. I tried to use some DATE functions and FORMAT function and tried sorting them out. But it didn't really help

    Appreciate any help!

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    Re: Chronological ordering of dates in Powerpivot/ Power View

    Create this dates in Ms-OFFICE FORMAT and then create chart that will make changes automatically.

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    Suhas

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    Re: Chronological ordering of dates in Powerpivot/ Power View

    Thanks, but I don't understand what you mean by "Creating in MS-OFFICE" format. The excel file with the phone stats is from a different application (one which I do not have access to). I want to be able to show the stats using Power BI. Apologies if I sound inexperienced, it is because that I am

    This is how the actual data looks in the excel file looks like, and this is just a few records of a growing file of around 500 rows


    ServiceDesk Phones Total incoming phone calls to the ICT Helpdesk Self Service Calls Chat Calls Average Answer Speed Abandoned Calls
    29-Apr 56 2 18 1
    30-Apr 31 2 3 11 2
    01-May 31 1 3 18 2
    02-May 41 4 0 19 0
    05-May 43 4 0 17 1
    06-May 36 7 0 16 1
    07-May 37 6 0 16 1
    08-May 29 5 0 14 0
    09-May 62 4 0 16 4
    12-May 91 11 4 19 3
    13-May 77 22 2 17 4


    Another problem I encountered was displaying fields with no values. For the task I am working on, there are some fields that have no value ,e.g. count of mobile phones. If there are no mobile phones, I want to know if there is a way to represent that with a "0" instead of just a blank field?

    Thanks
    Last edited by MasterElaichi; 02-08-2015 at 07:53 PM.

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