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erikstijnen's avatar
erikstijnen
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Create a date field

Hi, in the getting started with BI viewer I see they make use of a date field, which enables you to drill down to quarters/months etc. How do you create such a field (I guess I have to something with the time dimension which contains my years and months). I'm struggling with finding an expression that works...

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  • Sai_Maganti's avatar
    Sai_Maganti
    3 years ago

    Right, I think your time dim should get descriptions rather then name into the dataset. You can change it on the data adapter under Header text to "Description". This should work as long as you have the standard time dimension. You could run the data adapter and check the data.

     

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    Sai_Maganti
    Contributor II
    3 years ago

    Create a DateTime calculated field and then convert your Time dim to DateTime. The when you drop this field to Arguments you'll have time functions available (Month, QTR etc)

     

    • erikstijnen's avatar
      erikstijnen
      New Contributor III
      3 years ago

      Hi Sai, thank you for the swiift response. This formula is accepted and I can select year/quarters etc...but apparently evaluates in an error (see below bar). Any idea why? See screenshot

      • Sai_Maganti's avatar
        Sai_Maganti
        Contributor II
        3 years ago

        Right, I think your time dim should get descriptions rather then name into the dataset. You can change it on the data adapter under Header text to "Description". This should work as long as you have the standard time dimension. You could run the data adapter and check the data.