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Grouping

The Web Dashboard allows you to group dimension values and display summaries for entire groups rather than individual values. You can arrange dimension values in groups of different sizes by specifying the appropriate group interval. For instance, date-time values can be grouped by year, month, quarter, etc.

Changing a Date-Time Group Interval

Date-time values support the following group intervals.

Note

Examples in the table below are formatted with the default settings. To learn how to customize format settings, see the following help topic: Formatting Data.

Group interval Description Examples
Year Values are grouped by the year. 2010, 2011, 2012
Quarter Values are grouped by the quarter. Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
Month Values are grouped by the month. January, February, March, ... December
Day Values are grouped by the day of the month. 1, 2, 3, ... 31
Hour Values are grouped by the hour. 0, 1, 2, ... 23
Minute Values are grouped by the minute. 0, 1, 2, ... 59
Second Values are grouped by the second. 0, 1, 2, ... 59
Day of the Year Values are grouped by the day of the year. 1, 2, 3, ... 365
Day of the Week Values are grouped by the day of the week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, ... Saturday
Week of the Year Values are grouped by the week of the year. 1, 2, 3, ... 52
Week of the Month Values are grouped by the week of the month. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Week-Year Values are grouped by the date of the first day of the week (uses culture settings). 7/1/2018, 7/8/2018, 7/15/2018, ... 11/4/2018, 11/11/2018, 11/18/2018, ...
Month-Year Values are grouped by the year and month. January 2012, February 2012, ... December 2012, January 2013, ...
Quarter-Year Values are grouped by the year and quarter. Q3 2012, Q4 2012, Q1 2013, Q2 2013, ...
Day-Month-Year Values are grouped by date. 3/4/2012, 3/5/2012, 3/6/2012, ...
Date-Hour Values are grouped by date with the hour value. 3/4/2012 0:00 AM, 3/4/2012 1:00 AM, 3/4/2012 2:00 AM, ...
Date-Hour-Minute Values are grouped by date with the hour and minute values. 3/4/2012 0:00 AM, 3/4/2012 0:01 AM, 3/4/2012 0:02 AM, ...
Date-Hour-Minute-Second Values are grouped by date with the hour, minute and second values. 3/4/2012 0:00:00 AM, 3/4/2012 0:00:01 AM, 3/4/2012 0:00:02 AM, ...
Exact Date Each value is displayed "as is". 2009, Q2 2009, 6/15/2009 1:45:30 PM, ...

To specify a date-time group interval in the Web Dashboard, invoke the dashboard item Bindings menu and select the required data item. In the Bindings section, select the desired interval from the drop-down Group Interval list.

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Changing a Text Group Interval

String values support the following grouping intervals.

  • No Grouping: each value is displayed "as is".
  • Alphabetical: values are grouped alphabetically (e.g., A, B, C, ... Z).

For string values, go to the Data Shaping section of the data item menu. Here, you can change the group interval to alphabetical.

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