Line graph - show gridline at top

[DaneM123]

I have a line graph in a report that shows like this:

What I would like would be for the graph to show the line for 3k (or whatever gridline would come next, depending on the graph). I know I could set the maximum value for the y axis, but then when I look at a different level of the data - where there might be 20,000 nominations - the line wouldn't show. Is there a way to always show the gridline above the maximum value?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@DaneM123，

Do you mean that Y-Axis label is truncated in Line Chart when setting Y-Axis minimum to 0 and leaving Y-Axis maximum as Auto? If that is the case, this is by design currently.

The following response is from product team.

Once users set a min or max axis value, we use a combination of the specified values and/or the actual values where the user has not defined a value. So, once you set the Min, we change logic. Max is undefined so we use the real max value as the top. Dropping the last label is by design to there is minimal whitespace and so we respect what the user has specified.

All that said, we have discussed a plan to expose part of this behavior to the user as an option. The axis ticks can be rounded "nicely" to include the next label based on the tick interval - which would show 3k in this case. We will leave defaults as-is so existing visuals aren't affected, but we plan to introduce a new toggle to control whether the axis should extend to the next tick interval outside the domain or not.

No ETA right now, hopefully by end of this year.

Regards,
Lydia

[DaneM123]

Thanks - that is what I was hoping for. I find that the way it is at the moment makes the graphs quite hard to interpret, as it can be quite difficult to see how close the data points are to where the next line would be. While it does eliminate some white space it introduces an unnecessary element of estimation (IMO). Glad to be this is being looked at anyway.