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In this guide, you’ll learn how to toggle time interval size intervals (Days, Months, Years) on the same widget.
For example:
You want to measure {Good Production} over the course of the last 14 days
After reviewing the results, you want to quickly check your good production trend over the last 3 months
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There are many ways you can accomplish this. Each method has its own drawbacks:
You can create 2 identical line charts, except you set the first chart to DAYS as a time interval, and the second chart to MONTHS as its interval
You can duplicate multiple
In this case, you’d want your X-Axis (horizontal line) to be in Days.
But no
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You can accomplish this in several ways:
, like this:
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Let’s start by building out a line chart, and then we’ll add in the time-switching capabilities.
Create a Line Chart with a Time Dimension
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Note: We are using demo data for this tutorial, which is why our screenshot above has a strange spike in it. |
🕵️ If you look closely at your line chart, you’ll notice that the horizontal line (x-axis) is in Day intervals.
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This works when you want to analyze a couple weeks or even up to a single month. But what if you want to trend the last 6 months?
In this case, our trend chart might be better if its horizontal line (x-axis) uses Month intervalsLet’s work through this together.
Add a Dimension-Changer and Configure it to your Line Chart
Next, we’ll We’ll need to create the ability to quick toggle between time intervals.
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Next, we will duplicate “Calendar DateTime” so that we have different intervals (Year, Month, Day) to toggle.
Create Time Interval Toggles (Day, Month, Year)
4. In the same screen, right-click on “Years in Calendar DateTime“ and select Duplicate.
Right-click again, and Duplicate a second time (you should have 3 identical measures now).
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Open the widget dropdown menu and select
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