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Anonymous
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9 years ago
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Line chart Z-Order

Is there a way to specify the Z-order of multiple series on a line chart?

Specifically, how would I force the red line to appear in front of the blue line in the following line chart?

I have tried ordering the items in the Values specification.  This only affects the ordering of the legend items, but not the actual line display.

 

Thanks,

Ross

 

UPDATE: As noted in the accepted solution, the key to the Z-ordering is to refresh the display after  changing the order of the items in the values list.

  • Anonymous

     

    There is a workaround: after change the order of values, please changes pages, or save and reload the report, then it will draw lines in the order that the Legend shows things.

     

    Product team will look at possible sorting the line elements at a later time.

     

    Best Regards,
    Herbert

7 Replies

  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion

    Change your order so that the measure you want is the dominant line. Then go into the format area and switch your data colors?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      That was my initial expectation and the first thing I tried.

      It does change the order in the legend, but does not appear to affect the line display:

  • v-jiascu-msft's avatar
    v-jiascu-msft
    Microsoft Employee

    Hi,

     

    It looks strange. I will do more test and post later.

     

    Best Regards!

    Dale

    • KeithSuckling's avatar
      KeithSuckling
      Helper I

      Having the same issue with one line on top of another, and no impact of sort order on this.  Sort order only changes the lengend.  Using 2.46.4732.721 64-bit (May 2017)

       

      Did anything get solved here?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
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        Still nothing concretely resolved.

        However, after randomly moving things around hoping to find some correlation, the desired display order started working.

        But I have no idea if/what change may have actually initiated the resulting display.