Trying to plot two fields in Looker:
Month,
# of seats purchased by the customer.
Both of these are calculated in our own tables and declared as the correct data type (date / number respectively) in our LookML.
Looker is incapable of taking these two columns and plotting a time series like you would expect.
The date value is forced onto the y axis, and the number value is forced to be ‘in order’, so I can’t get an accurate picture of licenses purchased over time. I’m able to get the date onto the x axis by select “Swap X and Y axis”, but there is NOTHING I can do to assign the date to the X axis, and there is no way to accurately plot the data. instead I’m stuck with something like this:
Having the same issue. I’m sort of able to get what I need using the Swap X and Y option, but generating series from a 3rd column is not working at all.
Found this answer - seems like my problem is I am not using a Custom Measure, just a Custom Dimension that’s numeric.