Time Trends - How to switch time intervals from Day to Month to Year

This guide assumes that you’ve already worked through our 5-min Quickstart guide. If you haven’t yet completed it on your own, please do so first:

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In this guide, you’ll learn how to toggle time interval size 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

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:

Create a Line Chart with a Time Dimension

You need a widget that measures something over a period of time.

For this example, we’ll stick to simply trending your Good Parts over time.

Select Add Widget, and then select Advanced Configuration.

2. Open the widget dropdown menu and select Line Chart. For your X-Axis, Add and select “Calendar DateTime”

3. Click the “Y” icon next to Calendar DateTime and change the intervals to Days.

4. In your Values panel, click Add, and then search and select “Good Production”

You should now have a Time-Series line chart that shows your good output over the course of time.

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.

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 intervals.

Add a Dimension-Changer and Configure it to your Line Chart

Next, we’ll need to create the ability to quick toggle between time intervals.

You can accomplish this with the Dimension-Changer tool.

Select Add Widget, and then select Advanced Configuration.

2. Open the widget dropdown and select “Dimension Changer”.

3. In the “Rows” panel, search and select “Calendar DateTime”

Think of “Calendar DateTime” as a timestamp that can be converted to whichever time interval you prefer (Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, Years, etc.).

The only thing you need to do is tell our Analytics portal how you’d like Calendar DateTime to display.

You should now see the following in your Rows panel:

Next, we will duplicate “Calendar DateTime” so that we have different intervals (Year, Month, Day) to toggle.

Create Time Interval Toggles (Day, Month, Year)

In the same screen, right-click on “Years in Calendar DateTime“ and select Duplicate

Open the widget dropdown menu and select

Line Chart. For your X-Axis, Add and select “Calendar DateTime”

In the same widget panel, click Add in your Widget Filters panel.
Search and select “ReasonState Name”
De-select every item here, and then search for and select a single Reason that you really care about (in this example, we will use “Changeover”).
4. Click OK.

Your line graph should re-render to only show the downtime durations for “Changeover” (or whichever ReasonState Name you selected in the previous step).