I have the chart below in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for an SSRS report.
The date in the x-axis uses January from each year, but I want it to use the latest month that is available from my dataset (from SQL Server). For example, we’re currently in December of 2012, so I want it to be Dec-06, Dec-07, Dec-08, Dec-09, Dec-10, Dec-11, Dec-12 for the x-axis rather than Jan-06, Jan-07 etc.
I already tried reversing the order of the date in the SQL Server query (changed to descending), but it didn’t make a difference to the chart (the data however is changed to desc, the chart just forces the date to have January).
Any help would be much appreciated.
Try playing with the scale and iterations on the x-axis itself. Your data isn’t going to change but you should be able to set this in detail.
Updated Answer:
You will have to live with setting the minimum on your chart to being x years prior to the current month this way forcing the month starting to be, say, December.
The following Microsoft site specifies these minimum and maximim labels are automatically used. Then the intervals are set based on this. Your only option is to manually set the minimum and maximum.