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Benoo876
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How to Display Multiple Dynamic Vertical Lines with Corresponding Data Labels

Hi! I'm working on a line chart in Power BI where I need to display multiple dynamic vertical constant lines. The line chart has Time points (in minutes) on x-axis and Values on Y-axis.

Constant lines should correspond to the start times of increased RPM (field Increased_RPM_begining) in my dataset. Additionally, if even possible, I want to display data labels next to each vertical line that show the corresponding Method label (field Method_label) value from the same row, aggregated with Increased_RPM_duration.

 

  • Time: X-axis
  • Value: Y-axis
  • Increased_RPM_begining (Start of Increased RPM): The position for vertical lines
  • Method_label (Method): The label to be displayed next to each vertical line
  • Increased_RPM_duration (Duration of Increased RPM): Method_label + Increased_RPM_duration  = whole label show next to line (I can prepare this with calculated column in advance)

How can I dynamically add multiple vertical lines to my line chart, each positioned at the Increased_RPM_begining values? I can do that for one line with simple measure VerticalLinePosition = SELECTEDVALUE('Results'[Increased_RPM_begining]) but I was wondering if this is possible to achive for multiple (up to 3) lines? If I could have a dynamic label somewhere next to the line (Method) that would be additional plus.

  • 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
        LabelFormatted

     

     

     

    Set 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

     

     

  • 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 🙂

  • 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

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  • 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
        LabelFormatted

     

     

     

    Set 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

     

     

  • 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.