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arie_energy
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How to set vertical lines at the beginning of each day in a time-series line graph

I would like to create a measure or use another method that sets vertical lines at the beginning of each day in the following time series plot:

arie_energy_0-1661333269496.png

The date column has hourly values. I would like to have a vertical line indicating the difference between days, similar to the plot below (which I made in paint) - at the start of every day. 

arie_energy_1-1661333410631.png

Is there a way of doing so? My current issue with time series graphs is that they are hard to read and it is hard to distinguish between different days.

 

EDIT: Seems like there is no way to do this. Power BI is trash.

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Aristocrates
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This is a really basic requirement of a graph - a line at the beginning of each day.  It should be so simple to implement. I find it ridiculous that Excel can't do this out of the box. What are Excel charts even for if they can't do something basic like this? Can we have a fix please?

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@arie_energy , You can follow the suggestion from @Luuky 

 

With a Date or number on  X-axis , you get an option to have x-axis constant line too under the analytic pane with FX option, means you can add a measure or fixed date.

amitchandak_0-1661334994180.png

 

But 1 line will display as one point, so you have add A few

 

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Yeah this really isn't going to work for me. I just want to have dynamically created vertical lines at the beginning of each day. My time series lasts a month so adding 30 vertical lines manually isn't going to help.

Luuky
Helper I
Helper I

Hi @arie_energy ,

 

A quick tip to increase readability is to put on vertical gridlines. 

Greeting,

Luuk

This does not help at all. This only helps when you display 5 days of data, but if its more it already skips a day. I am actually very disappointed by the fact that PowerBI doesn't have any capabilities of changing this.

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