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How to Display Multiple Dynamic Vertical Lines with Corresponding Data Labels
- 2 years ago
Hi Benoo876
I think a line chart with error bars and data labels with be a good way to handle this.
I've mocked up an example - attached.
Source table:
Increased_RPM_beginning Method_label Increased_RPM_duration Method Duration Label 1/01/2024 1:50:00 pm Method A 3 Method A: 3 1/01/2024 2:00:00 pm Method B 5 Method B: 5 1/01/2024 2:30:00 pm Method C 10 Method C: 10 Measures:
Increased RPM Flag = -- This measure should return 1 if there is an Increased_RPM_beginning value preesnt. -- May need to be rewritten based on your actual data. IF ( NOT ISEMPTY ( Data ), 0 ) Increased RPM Error Bar = IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( [Increased RPM Flag] ), 1 ) Data Label = VAR SpaceChar = UNICHAR ( 8193 ) VAR SpaceCharRep = REPT ( SpaceChar, 1 ) VAR LabelValue = SELECTEDVALUE ( Data[Method Duration Label] ) VAR LabelFormatted = SpaceCharRep & LabelValue & SpaceCharRep RETURN LabelFormattedSet up the line chart with:
- Increased RPM Flag on Y-axis
- Increased_RPM_Beginning on x-axis (in reality should use date/time dimension table)
- Increased RPM Error Bar as an error bar
- Data Label as data label
- The line itself is set to zero-width to hide it.
There's probably a bit of effort needed to get the formatting looking right with your actual data but hopefully that's a start 🙂
Regards
- 2 years ago
Hi again Benoo876
I had a chance to look at this a bit more closely - PBIX attached.
Below are some suggestions with this being the final output.
1. Restructure the data so that the Increased_RPM columns are "joined" to the Time_point/Value data, rather than a column containing the Increase_RPM_Time_beginning column.
If the Increased_RPM doesn't correspond to an existing Time_point, interpolate Value to create a Time_point (I've set this up in Power Query).
For example, Trial 3 changes from this:
to this:
2. Create a Time dimension related to fact table.
3. Set up measures as follows:
Value Average = AVERAGE ( Sheet1[Value] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Increased RPM Flag = -- returns 1 if at least on Increased RPM occurred at a given time MAX ( Sheet1[Increased_RPM_flag] ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Bar Positive = VAR Increased_RPM_Flag = [Increased RPM Flag] VAR Result = IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( Increased_RPM_Flag ), VAR MaxAllselected = CALCULATE ( MAXX ( SUMMARIZECOLUMNS ( Time[Time_point], Sheet1[Trail_label], "@Value", [Value Average] ), [@Value] ), ALLSELECTED () ) RETURN MaxAllselected ) RETURN Result -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Bar Negative = VAR Increased_RPM_Flag = [Increased RPM Flag] VAR Result = IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( Increased_RPM_Flag ), 0 ) RETURN Result -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Label = MAX ( Sheet1[Increased_RPM_label] )Error Bar Positive is just designed to retrieve the "max" point on the chart to determine the end point of the error bar.
4. Set up Error Bars:
5. Set Data Labels:
No doubt some tweaking required but sharing just in case it helps!
Owen 🙂 - 2 years ago
Thanks for pointing that out! 🙂
It appears that I may have jumped the gun by using SUMMARIZECOLUMNS rather than SUMMARIZE.Despite some recent updates, SUMMARIZECOLUMNS doesn't seem to be fully supported in measures in the Service.
This should work instead for now (PBIX reattached) 🙂
Error Bar Positive = VAR Increased_RPM_Flag = [Increased RPM Flag] VAR Result = IF ( NOT ISBLANK ( Increased_RPM_Flag ), CALCULATE ( MAXX ( SUMMARIZE ( Sheet1, Time[Time_point], Sheet1[Trail_label] ), [Value Average] ), ALLSELECTED () ) ) RETURN Result
This is a well thought out and creative solution, thank you. But my problem is a bit more complex since those dynamic constant lines are just addition to existing line chart.
Original chart has Time_points (field in my dataset, can vary between different data series: one series will have point 0-10-20-30 while anothe 0-10-30-40 and another 0-60-120 etc) on x series (points are descibed as int values, for example 0 - 5 -10 - 20 - 30 and not as date/time series), Value is on y series.
I guess I can overlap those charts with no background of constant lines one. However, since the X axis are not the same (first chart being Time_points and the second one is Increased_RPM_Beginning which is one of those timepoints) they do not align well.
- OwenAuger2 years agoSuper User
Understood, if the existing lines are based on multiple measures, then the new measure should be able to be added alongside them (updated example attached).
However, if your existing lines are a single measure with a Legend field, it could be a little more complicated. Are the existing lines based on a single measure with a legend, or several measures?
- Benoo8762 years agoAdvocate I
Only one at the moment. Sharing example of my dataset (forum doesn't let share pbix, so I am sendig wetransfer link)
https://we.tl/t-SSUn11Gbqz- Benoo8762 years agoAdvocate I
OwenAugerdo you think anything can be done here in my case where I am having one field per y-axis and using Legend as well.
Seems the solution is to align the x-axis by adding Time-points to the Legend of Error bar chart and then superimposing both charts. I am not 100% sure if this is the best solution, I will do some more testing and hope that the alignment doesn't go off by some coincedence.