Forum Discussion
Line chart scroll aligned right
- 6 years ago
Hi FatBlackCat30 ,
You cannot change the default scroll setup.
Has a workaround you can decrease the size of the bars and the space between them so they are closer and have more information visible, increase the size of the visual or change the sorting order of the axis.
Hi FatBlackCat30 ,
You cannot change the default scroll setup.
Has a workaround you can decrease the size of the bars and the space between them so they are closer and have more information visible, increase the size of the visual or change the sorting order of the axis.
- Clinical_Epi5 years agoAdvocate III
Hang on a second... so the one thing people rely on in charts for decades on computers - ie: having the line bar selector at the bottom of the page start from the right hand side of a chart that exceeds the dimensions of itself is not an option?
Lets just throw all convention out the window why dont we?
Make the data (whether it be months or what ever on the Y axis) smaller deafeats the purpose of a drill down which expans the graph beyond its boundaries making you HAVE to scroll to the most recent data every time you refresh the page... No bookmarks or tricks will work this one out - it has to be added as a function by the software developers Microsoft.
Very annoying and a big red mark against Power Bi (which I love btw)...
- MFelix5 years agoSuper User
Hi Clinical_Epi ,
I understand what you are saying and may agree with you that these type of adjustments to the visualizations is needed.
However and please don't see this as being disrespectufull, it's not throwing all the conventions out of the window, in my case while working with a lot of visualizations from Excel, Tableau and Power BI (among others) , some as creator and some as read only I have learn in the last years that having more information in a single visualization is not necessarily good, if you cannot take the main message from the values you are seeing imediatly maybe something needs to be change.
Again this is my personal perspective and in no means I'm deprecating your opinion.
The work around can be to create inverse the timeline order (also not logical), don't know the correct because sometimes things come from a full perpspective of your reports and it can totally make sense to have a line chart.
You can also check if there is an idea on the forum part for ideas.
Just getting some open discussion about what are the alternatives, but if you make the idea on the forum please tell me and I will be the first one to mark as needed ๐
- Frith5 years agoNew Member
Hey MFelix , there is already an idea that needs more votes:
Microsoft Idea ยท Set default x axis scrolling position (powerbi.com)
Anyhow I fully agree with Clinical_Epi. It is really some kind of shame that this must be pushed via an idea and was not implemented from the very beginning. I use a text format (monthname-year) that is also common but not provided as a date format and so it is even not possible to reorder the x-axis because it is not an option for text formats...