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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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Line charts with events as data labels

Is it possible to add event names as data labels on line charts?  I could do this in Excel, but I am struggling to replicate this in Power BI. Something like below.  I have list of events connected...
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    v-jianboli-msft
    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    You could apply the [Event] to the legend:

    Output:

    Or add text box like I mentioned before:

    Best Regards,

    Jianbo Li

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v-jianboli-msft
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3 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

You could apply the [Event] to the legend:

Output:

Or add text box like I mentioned before:

Best Regards,

Jianbo Li

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

 

 

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Clinical_Epi
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2 years ago

Hi Jian,

Static comments in text boxes with lines seperate to the graph is only going to work for a once off report...

 

Power BI can do so much more, but, this one area is a sticky point once people overcome the basics, and advanced use of Power BI.

 

If you find a way to make this dynamic let me know - and I will do the same 🙂