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andrewwglenn
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Forced Concatenation in Bar Charts [bug]?

In the past day or two, my report force concatenates x-axis labels when I drill down. I explicitly switched the concatenation to off, but the chart still performs in error.

 

Anyone else experiencing this?

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@andrewwglenn works for me

 

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Thanks for the reply.

I have already done this, but when drilled, the parent label is retained and concatenated.

 

Seems like buggy performance.

hi  @andrewwglenn 

I have tested on my side, it works well too.

could you please share your screenshots, and if possible please share your sample pbix file for us have a test.

 

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Lin

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I have shown below the 3 levels of drilling granularity and the "Concatenate labels" slider to off in each image.

I simply want the label for the current level of granularity to be displayed.

Is there something I am missing?

 

Thank you for your help so far.

 

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Hi @andrewwglenn ,

 

You have to order the values in the chart in order to get the concatenate function working.



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You mean sort the measures? Or dimensions?

I tried both in ascending and descending arrangements, and the concatenation persists.

 

Or do you mean something different by ordering?

@andrewwglenn,

 

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Sort it by the first item of columns in axis, if you have more than 1.



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Thanks, Ricardo

I guess I will have to accept the limitations of the software and feature.

 

I appreciate it.

@andrewwglenn ,

 

Did it work ?

 

I don't have idea why we need to sort it to have it working.



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It works only when sorted by the dimension (I cannot sort by the measure and have the concatenation function as desired).

I accepted your recommendation of sorting the dimensions as a solution.

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