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Dates in charts


paul_c_2
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I have yet to successfully use dates as an axis in ChartGenerator. Ideally, I would like to be able to use more natural date formats e.g. %B %Y or %m %Y and set the scale accordingly based upon time increments. Is this possible (in Chart Generator or another transformer) ? Or am I going to need to take it out into PowerBI, Excel, etc?

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danilo_fme
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  • November 2, 2023

Hi @paul_c_2​ 

 

Please, could you share a example of your data?

 

 

Thanks in Advance,

 

Danilo


paul_c_2
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  • November 6, 2023

Absolutely!


mlufkin
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  • November 10, 2023

Hi @paul_c_2​,

 

I've had this issue before too - the workaround for me has worked in the past is this:

  • Create additional features to 'fill the gaps' of any missing months (i.e. if you have months 202301, 202303 and 202304, create 202302) to give your chart a fighting chance of having consistent distances between months) - in this case not needed.
  • Sort by Month, to order your features correctly. They need to stay in the correct order for the ChartGenerator
  • Use Attribute Manager/Creator to add '01' to the Month (so that the DateTimeConverter will work)
  • DateTimeConverter to convert this date into '%B %Y'
  • Plot values in ChartGenerator

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All the best,

 

Martyn


paul_c_2
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mlufkin wrote:

Hi @paul_c_2​,

 

I've had this issue before too - the workaround for me has worked in the past is this:

  • Create additional features to 'fill the gaps' of any missing months (i.e. if you have months 202301, 202303 and 202304, create 202302) to give your chart a fighting chance of having consistent distances between months) - in this case not needed.
  • Sort by Month, to order your features correctly. They need to stay in the correct order for the ChartGenerator
  • Use Attribute Manager/Creator to add '01' to the Month (so that the DateTimeConverter will work)
  • DateTimeConverter to convert this date into '%B %Y'
  • Plot values in ChartGenerator

Capture5 

All the best,

 

Martyn

awesome, will give it a go! Merci


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