Time chart wizard

[#1]

Hi all, just joined this community for I am learning QW. I am currently trying to understand how it treats the time dimension. I have a very simple monthly sales data table (as usual year, quarter, month, product, geo area, sales unit and sales value). I have tried to use the wizard to create a pivot table where i can drill up and down on the time dimension, but at step 3 QW asks me for a date/time expression that I don't have in my table. If I select the MONTH field I get a "Wrong expression" message and if I continue I am not able to get any table. Also, what should I put in the next Expression Data field ? today() doesn't work.

Thanks in advance for your help.

NS

[#2]

Maybe you could post an extact of your app, I could check the format of your date fields.

To display a chart with time, you can use a bar chart (for example) :

Month is your dimension

Sum(Sales) is your expression

After you can arrange the backgroung.

JJJ

[#3]

Thanks for replying JJJ

My actual goal is to show Change Diff and Change Diff % columns in a pivot table (e.g. current period - previous period). I have read that this feature is automatic in QW if the proper time dimension is used, so I started investigating the Time Wizard. But it seems like I cannot use it because in my table there is no date field:

year (2007,2008, ecc) quarter (200701, 200702, ecc), month (01,02,03, ecc), product (P1, P2, P3, ecc), geo area (Area1, Area2, ecc), sales unit and sales value.

I am perfectly able to create the pivot table and drill on the time dimension, but I cannot use the wizard to get differences columns. Is there any other way to do this ?

thanks

NS