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Helper IDotted Line/ Dashed Lines on a Bar Chart
Hi Gladiator909 ,
You can change the style of line to Dotted by using format visual:
Output:
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Super UserDo you mean a column chart? I don't think there is any way to have lines on a standard bar chart. Can you show the expected outcome?
Gladiator909Thank you very much for responding to my question. I basically want the line on the chart above to be dotted. This is what I was able to reproduce within Excel but not in PowerBI:
Any ideas how this can be replicated on PowerBI?
- lbendlin
That is a column chart.
The line makes no sense as there is no relation between the categories. Line charts should only be used with temporal data, or correlated categories. Looks like you want a Pareto instead?
This is where Tableau is better than Power BI - It wouldn't even allow you to attempt this.
- Gladiator909
The data that I showed is not the real dataset I am working with, just dummy data to convey what I am trying to do. Maybe something like this would make more sense:
Just want the forecasted line to be dashed/dotted in PowerBI