Column Chart Visual - Why am I getting different options at different times?

[bvy]

I'm working with a Line and Clustered Column Chart. I can't figure this out. Sometimes I get one panel of options, sometimes I get the other -- both shown below. Any idea what's going on or what drives the different selections? 

[parry2k]

@bvy let's be very clear (help us to help you), you are looking at the format pane using two different visuals? correct?

Can you share :

what visual a and visual b are?

what are you using in legen, x-axis, y-axis, etc for each visual

If you cannot provide the details and just share the screen shot, not going to help anyone.

Read this post to get your answer quickly.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/How-to-Get-Your-Question-Answered-Quickly/ba-p/38490

[Jeanxyz]

Could it be your cursor  selected another visual by mistake?

[parry2k]

@bvy I will be surprised that the selection of the value in the slicer is changing the formatting option, would you mind sharing pbix file, remove any sensitive information before sharing.

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[bvy]

Thank you. Sharing the PBIX isn't going to help. The point is that it's unpredictable. Sometimes when I select the visual, I get one set of options. Other times, I get a different set of options. It has nothing to do with how the visual is structured. The situation I have now is one where I copied and pasted the same visual multiple times. See below. I realize the graph on the left is ugly (bad data) but these are both "Line Charts" and structurally they're identical. The four charts differ only by a "Paramter Type" which is selected in the filter pane. 

[bvy]

Anyone else? The behavior is unpredictable as far as I can tell. There's got to be some trend to this or an answer though. 

[ronaldbalza2023]

Hi @bvy , hope you are doing great today. It has something do with the things that you've actually placed on the visuals ie. X-axis, Column y-axis, Line y-axis, Column Legend, and Small multiples. The more you put something in there, the more options that will show if that makes sense. 😊

[bvy]

Thank you. It does make sense, but that's not quite the whole story. This is happening without me adding or deleting any new fields in the various axis and data categories. It seems more dependent on slicer selections that affect the visual, but I haven't figured out what exactly.