Stacked Line Chart - not stacking up

orensteinb — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:34:02 GMT

Hello, I am relatively experienced with power BI but have recently been tasked with creating a visual representation of a company's revenue over time, by entity. As you can see from the examples below, the comany has a lot of different entities - this is not the issue. I'm trying to make all of the lines in the chart stack up - the only problem is, some entities will have no recorded revenue at all in a given period (like the data set doesn't show zero revenue, it doesn't have a value at all in that period). Additionally, some entities will have a negative revenue in a given period. What I would like to see is that the stacked lines all stack up each period, but I would like to see none of the lines cross each other. That way it is super clear that in any given period, which entities have which amount of revenue. I know that using a stacked bar chart accomplishes this very easily, but was curious if there is a way to make it work for line charts.

I have included two screenshots of the charts - after doing some searching online someone suggested to switch the x-axis type to categorical instead of continuous but they both showed the lines crossing each other.

X-axis as continuous:

x-axis as categorical:

Thank you!

Re: Stacked Line Chart - not stacking up

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 06:23:35 GMT

Hi, orensteinb .

Regarding the issue you raised, my solution is as follows:

First I have created the following table and the column names and data are the data you have given:

For example, I need the value of column to stay above column2 and the two lines do not intersect:
1.I've created a measure substitution visualization like this:

Measure = IF(SUM('Table'[Column])>=SUM('Table'[Column 2]),SUM('Table'[Column]),0)

Measure 2 = IF(SUM('Table'[Column 2])<SUM('Table'[Column]),SUM('Table'[Column 2]),0)

2.Then modify the filter:

3.Here's the original visualization:

Here's a visualization that uses a measure judgment:

If your needs involve multiple judgments, you can also choose the switch() function, and here is the documentation:
SWITCH function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

Of course, you can also use PowerQuery to modify the data itself.

Best Regards,

Leroy Lu

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