Marking Today's Date with a Line on the Line Chart

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I have this line chart and was asked to mark today's date with a vertical line (same one that appears when the mouse point rolls over).  Is it possible to do that? I've created a "today's date" column, but not sure how to make it work.

Thank you!

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous glad to help, feel free to reach out if need any assistance. Accept the solution if it is working as expected so that others can take advantage of it.

Cheers,

Parv

[parry2k]

@Anonymous yes this can be achieved by writing some measures. How does your data model looks like? Do you have seperate date dimensions? What is the expression for these two measures you showed in line visual?

[Anonymous]

@parry2k  I only have one table for this particular line chart called 'Data'. The fields are use are highlighted in the screen shot - I don't use measures for this chart. I have created Today Column hoping to use it to create the line.

[parry2k]

@Anonymous can you send sample data in excel, shared thru google drive/onedrive and send back you the solution. 

[Anonymous]

@parry2k  Here is the file that I use for that report:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E28Ms4cDgqQPXbpZRBlzAvKzqXxbYZZL

Thank you very much! Enjoy your weekend!

Ana

[parry2k]

@Anonymous will have something to you soon. You too, enjoy your weekend. and keep an eye on reply to this post 🙂

CHeers,

P

[parry2k]

@Anonymous would this work?

[Anonymous]

@parry2k I am so sorry i missed your post from Friday - never recieved an email notification. Yes! That would work perfectly! How did you go about it?

thanks!

[parry2k]

@Anonymous here you go, see attached

[Anonymous]

You are a genius! Thank you very much. I am new to Power BI and learing on my own as I go. Your help is very much appreciated. Have a great weekend!

Ana

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous glad to help, feel free to reach out if need any assistance. Accept the solution if it is working as expected so that others can take advantage of it.

Cheers,

Parv

[Anonymous]

Hi @parry2k ,

I came across this thread and I'm hoping you might be able to help me out as well. I would also like to create a today line, however the figure I would like to add it to currently dislays a measure as its line value that is a bit more compicated than the SUM measures used in this example. My measure is as follows:

E_date approved = calculate(DISTINCTCOUNT(MilestonesAndDependencies[Milestone Name]), filter(allselected(MilestonesAndDependencies), MilestonesAndDependencies[End date approved] > min(MilestonesAndDependencies[End date approved])))

The measure above basically enables me to show a burndown chart that displays when something should be implemented, according to the date that was stated as the [end date approved] at the start of our project:

However when i apply your method the best result so far is this:

Am i missing something, or does your method perhaps not work when using more complicated measures as lines?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

kind regards,
Odi

[Anonymous]

Thanks @parry2k I downloaded your solution file and got it working - I needed to add a new column for Date2 based on your date +700 because it is now about 2yrs after your dates (so 'today' wasn't showing up).

However my 'today' bar is very thick, not like yours which is a line - just what I want.

Greatly appreciated if you or anyone could share how to make the column a thin vertical line.

Blue column is today but should be a thin line.

[Anonymous]

@parry2k actually no, just realised I didn't get it working in your solution, but I got it working in mine - just the thick line rather than thin line. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

@parry2k 

Parv,

Sorry for being so dumb, but I can't figure out how you created the Calendar table in the solution you'd sent. The column "Date" in particular. i see from the icon, that it's not a Measure and not a Calculated column, but the table itself has a formula.

Calendar = CALENDAR( DATE( 2017,1,1), DATE(2019,12,31))

I tried to "Get Data" from 'Blank Query" and use the formula, but that didn't work. Please help!

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous oh that table is created using DAX under Data Table

go to modelling tab, click new table  and add expression to create the table

[Anonymous]

@parry2k  Thank you! I was making it more difficult than it is 🙂

[Anonymous]

@parry2k  Sorry! 2 more questions: 1. On your chart Today shows as a column in 'Column values" section. On mine it gives me an option for a Count, Sum, etc. How do I display it as a just "Today".

2. You have "Tooltip" in the "Tooltips" section. How is that done?

thank you!

[parry2k]

@Anonymous Today is a measure, not a column.

Today = 

VAR __released = MAXX( ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Date] ), [Released] )
VAR __disbursements = MAXX( ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Date] ), [Disbursements] )
RETURN
IF( 
    MAX( 'Calendar'[Date] ) = TODAY(), 
    MAX( __released, __disbursements ) 
) * 1.05 --multiply with factor to get longer bar

For tooltip, here is the post

If you still need assistance, please reach out to by email (on my signature) and I can walk you thru screen sharing.

[Anonymous]

Hi @parry2k ,

I hope you are doing well. Thank you for being our mentor.

I'm running into similar situation where I need to create a vertical line showing current date. I followed this conversation and managed to create the vertical line.

However, the two lines generated using measures became straight horizontal lines (instead of showing actual curves). Could you please have a look and point me to the right direction?

I appreciate your help.

Cheers,

Hieu

[parry2k]

@Anonymous can you share what are the measure for those lines and how your data model looks like? Were those lines working before you added today's vertical line?

[Anonymous]

Hi @parry2k ,

The measures for those lines are: 

PlannedRemain = SUM( Table1[Planned Meters Remaining] )

ActualRemain = SUM( table1[Actual Meters Remaining] )

//the column names has changed in our new data set but it shouldn't affect anything.

I also calculated a table named "Calendar" as well as measure "Today" 

Calendar = CALENDAR(DATE(2019,09,1), DATE(2021,07,30))

Today =

VAR __planned = MAXX( ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Date] ), [PlannedRemain] )

VAR __actual = MAXX( ALLSELECTED( 'Calendar'[Date] ), [ActualRemain] )

RETURN

IF(

MAX( 'Calendar'[Date] ) = TODAY(),

MAX( __planned, __actual )

) * 1.0

The lines displayed nicely when I used "Wk No" (week number) instead of "Date" in Shared axis. But then the "Today" bar wasn't displayed since there's no reference to date. Please see attached screenshot.

Looks like I'm having trouble with Date table and its relationship.

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,

Hugh