Start dimension

[#1]

Does anyone know if it is possible to "shift" the startpoint of a dimension?

E.g. I have a graph with weekdays that displays yesterdays sales and a prediction for the next 6 days. I want my Y-axis to start at yesterday (thursday). So it should show: thursday-friday-saturday-sunday-monday and so on. Tomorrow it should show friday-saturday-sunday.

I have attached an example graph, values in red are predictions while blue is the last known value.

Any help will be appreciated.

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Sounds more like you just want to show eight days of a date field:

sum({<MyDate={'>=$(=today()-1)<=$(=today()+6)'}>} SomeMeasure )

[#3]

No,

I want to show the count of one day's sales (yesterday's), and the other days are computed in the expression.

The issue is that I want the Y-axis to start at yesterday because that's visually more attractive to the end-user. (i.e., last known value, then predicted values).

FYI, the prediction is computed as follows:

Count({1<SALESTS_DATE={">=$(vMinusWeek)"}>}SALES_UNIQUEID)*vGrowthWeek

I think for your way to work I should compute the growthfactor in the script and create fake records? Anyway, all I want to do is to shift the axes, i.e to let it start on thursday and end on wednesday.

[tombombadil]

Hi,

i think it should work, if you do a calculated dimension:

=if(date >= (Today()-1) and date <= (Today()+6), WeekDay(date), Null())

and check 'Suppress When Value Is Null'.

To get the right sort, Sort by Expression 'date'

This works for me, when I tried this with inline data.

Best regards,

Tom

[#5]

Hey Thomas, I don't actually have records with dates higher than today. So your solution won't work, I think?

Could you please provide me with your sample file so I can check?

[tombombadil · Accepted solution]

Yes, my solution is date based.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. Maybe you can work a little bit with my sample.

Best regards,

Tom

[#7]

<Edit>

I have marked your answer as correct because I created the dimension based on LAST weeks days. Thanks!

</Edit>

Yeah I considered that option, but it's not very workable for me.

What I do is, I take last weeks count of sales and multiply that with a factor.

Eg. if the factor is 1.05 and last week friday sales count was 100 then I plot 105 for next friday in the graph.

For yesterday I take actual yesterdays values, ie. thursday sales was  101 so I plot 101.

Now I want the graph to start at yesterday (plot 101), then for  friday it will plot 104. All I need to do is to shift the display order of weekdays.

[tombombadil]

Glad, I could help!

Have a nice weekend!

Best regards,

Tom

[RedSky001]

All I need to do is to shift the display order of weekdays.

I could be misunderstand you but if you always want to display yesterday's date first you could do something like this:

If yesterday = Thu then

Thu  =  1

Fri  =  2

etc.

if yesterday = Fri then

Fri  =  1

Sat  =  2

etc..

See the attached qvw for an example.

(I'm sure there must be a smarter way of doing this but it seems to work)