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erikstijnen
4 years agoNew Contributor III
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...
- 4 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.
Sai_Maganti
4 years agoContributor II
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)
- erikstijnen4 years agoNew Contributor III
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_Maganti4 years agoContributor II
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.
- erikstijnen4 years agoNew Contributor III
Thank you very much Sai, very useful. Works great now.