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Nested X Axis Labels

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Mynda Treacy on 21 Jan 2016 09:25:01

In a regular PivotTable we can nest axis labels e.g. we can group regional data by year. Currently PowerBI only supports one level of X axis labels.

There are loads of areas where this would be useful but one example is with the MailChimp campaign data which currently only allows you to list all the campaigns alphabetically. I want to group/sort by date. My only option is to use Slicers to filter out periods I don't want, but that doesn't really help me see them in date order.

Administrator on 15 Feb 2017 09:01:35

You can nest x-axis labels in column charts! You can read more about the feature here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-feature-summary/#hierarchicalAxis

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Prasanna Maniyur on 09 Aug 2021 21:54:22

RE: Nested X Axis Labels

Please try the below link, and look for solution from Ed_Had

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-do-you-display-both-years-and-months-in-x-axis/m-p/18985

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Banu Beydağ on 11 Mar 2021 13:38:45

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In my case I have values for last 1 year in column char and I want to show values in logical order dates such as now it's March and I'd like to show revenue values from Feb2020 to March2021to see how it has gone over the period but now it shows in this order: Jan2021, Feb2021, March2021, April2020, May2020,....,December2020. I'd like to order like April2020,May2020,June2020,....,December2020,Jan2021,Feb2021,March2021.
When I make expand to next level on the column chart shows it shows as I mentioned above. I tried to change order of Axis values from month,year to year,month but when I change the order it automatically groups the years and chart shows just 2 values one for 2020 and other for 2021. How can I achieve to order in logical order?
Thanks in advance..

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Curtis Hornaday on 25 Jul 2020 13:30:07

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Please fix this function!

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Sander Work ten Wolde on 06 Jul 2020 00:07:42

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Is this also available on Power BI Report Server? If not, when..? We are using Sept 2019 version now.
I saw it on a Pbi file from a coworker, but I cannot replicate it in Power BI Report Server: I do not see the Concatenate toggle..?

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:07

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Nested X Axis doesn't work as the completed admin solution demo'd.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:04:07

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Right click your bar chart and expand to next level. that is all you need

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:19

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Is anyone having an issue with Nested X Axis Labels? I can't get this to work even when following the instructions.

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Josh on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:07

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This is an extremely common use case available in all other data visualization tools I've used. This is a show stopper in moving from SSRS (Paginated reports) to Power BI Server.

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Bruce Anderson on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:48

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Thank you PowerBI team! This will really help us. One less excuse not to be using PowerBi.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:45

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I've spent the past day trying to figure a work around. This is CRUCIAL for historic prices by date and a way for a relationship connection to work with it around the name of the price.