How to get rid of white space in clustered bar chart with measures

[Gisela]

Hello,

I have created this clustered bar chart. Each column is a measure. How can I get rid of the white space in the chart? It takes up too much room. When I try to make it narrower, the bars just get thinner and the chart is impossible to read.

I have the measures in VALUE and one 'value' in the AXIS. Nothing in legend.

Appreciate any help.

Thank you,

Gisela

[KatiS]

Has anyone found a solution to this? I am having the same drama with my chart. This is my only option for teh x Axis. 

A solution would be great! 

Kat 

[Anonymous]

We should be able to control the width of the bars.

It's frustrating.

[ClaytonMUK]

I realise this is a very old thread, but I searched for a solution to the same problem, worked out an answer, so thought I would post. 🙂 My answer was to put my measures into a calculated table. You can then use that table to populate your chart with an x axis (measures) and y axis (measure values). Search how to create that table, but I used something like:

My table = {

 ("Measure 1",[measure 1]),

 ("Measure 2",[measure 2))

}

You can then edit the col headers as normal.

[KatiS]

This doesn't work. 😞

[skroutela]

You can adjust the white space with "Minimum category width"  option available in Format -> Y Axis -> Minimum category with.

You just have to increase the value of minimum category width. 

I tried this on Clustered bar chart and its works for me.

[JulietZhu]

Does Anybody know the answer? I have the same issue. Please help. Thanks . I didn't see start and end in x-axis either. What should I do ? Thanks

[Nic-L]

I had the same issue, wanted to see my data labels while removing the extra whitespace around the bars. Try going into the X-Axis format area and playing around with the Minimum category width (setting it to the maximum) and the Inner padding (setting it to the minimum). After that you can adjust the width of the visualization to only encompass the actual data, removing whitespace.AfterBeforeFormatting

[bsas]

Hi @Gisela,

You mean X-axis? or Y?

[Gisela]

Hi @bsasIt is the column i have chosen as the 'name'/grouping, in the X axis.

[bsas]

@Gisela,

You can go to format in your visualization, then X-Axis and there set start and Eed. This will help you to show only some data.

[Gisela]

@bsas not sure I understand how to do it. This is what I am seeing. There is a start and end in the Y axis but not in the X axis.

[bsas]

@Gisela

[Gisela]

@bsas sorry, but I only see start/end in the Y axis. My X axis is not numbers so maybe that is why?

[v-huizhn-msft]

Hi @Gisela,

I guess there are mutiple values in X-axis, and the type of it is text value, right? If it is, why all the bars are clustered together. It should show different categories as follows.

The X-axis has multiple values, each month has two measure's value

Best Regards,
Angelia

[v-huizhn-msft]

Hi @Gisela,

Have you resolved your issue? If you have, welcome to share your solution or mark the right reply as answer. More people will benefit from here.

Best Regards,
Angelia