I have two separate question, both about dates.
- Date Formats - It appears if my date format is not one of the supported ones there is nothing I can do in a recipe by just providing the format. Every way I tried failed. I eventually broke the date into it's components and built a valid date string to convert. This seems very cumbersome. Any one solve this problem in a simpler way? What I'd really like to do is just provide the format in the dataset json, but once again unsupported formats seem to fail rows in the load.
- Formatting Date Labels in Charts - I know I can do this with SAQL but I want to be able to provide a way a less sophisticated user could define a format, e.g. 12/1/2025 instead of 2025-12-01. I swear I had a trick for this a while back but I couldn't rediscover as much as I tried. I thought I had a way to do it in the same way you build up a text in a text widget. Couldn't find it again...
Hi @Dan Paul
For your 1st Q. I have done the same. Splitting it and tying it together again.
For your 2nd Q. I often times come around this, creating the 12/1/2025 label as a dimension in the recipe. So you have the Date (dateformat) and Date (string)
Then just add both of the to the chart and sort by the real dateformat and hide the field.
This way faceting keeps working as well.
Hope this helps a bit, otherwise reach out, and we can dive into it if needed.
Have a great day, best Anders