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Resizing Bar Width in Clustered Column Chart
I'm building a clustered column chart (photo below), and would like to resize the width of the bars in that chart if possible, but I am not having any luck finding a way to do this. I know that other version of this has been asked and answered already (http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/chart-column-width/m-p/17749#M5116), but the answer to those questions was "you are missing a field for your Axis", meanwhile I already have an axis value.
Any help? Thanks!
TarcMaylor,
There is no method that could be used to change width of column unless we resize the whole chart to make the column wider. There is also an idea about adjusting blank space, you can vote it up.
Regards,
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As usual with Power BI, no true answers.
Go to Format option and type Padding. In X-axis, you will find inner padding %. Now, change the % and you can see the width of the column altered. Changing the width of a column
Has anyone found a better solution or workaround to this? Adjusting the inner padding or column width made very little change for me. Another chart type that can support field based target with conditional coloring on the bars (below or above target) would be fine.
You have to make sure under X axis that the Type is "Categorical" and not "Continuous" otherwise it won't let you adjust the category width.
cluster column chart bars is supposed to render categorical data and not contineous data. if you can catogories data and add that category field in column legend well then you can adjust spacing and width.
for example
if you have quarter on x axis and month as column legend then for each quarter you expect 3 bars in clustered column bar with some spacing and then next quarter, however clusted column chart will display 3 bars but white space for 9+1 more bars. as a quarter has only 3 months data and for rest 9 months it render 0 value which looks like white space.
a year data -> 4 quarters -> 12 months(means 12 category)
Work around to fix this -> make new field as 'month category' which includes only respective months for quarter.
a year data -> 4 quarters -> 3 months type( means 3 category)
3 months type would be ->
month 1 ->which represnt first month of a quarter -> Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
month 2 -> which represnt second month of a quarter -> Feb, May, Aug, Nov
month 3 -> which represnt third month of a quarter -> March, June, Sep, Dec
now keeping this month type field in 'column legend' well will display 3 bars and one white space for each quarter
Thanks for correct answer, finally this solved the problem. 😀
my problem was to display multiple column legends with more width, I created new column with category and replaced in column legend.
example ->converted "Quarter(month) = Q1 ( 1,2,3), Q2 (4,5,6), Q3 (7,8,9), Q4(10,11,12)"
to
Quarter(Month type) = Q1 ( 1,2,3), Q2 ( 1,2,3, Q3 ( 1,2,3), Q4( 1,2,3)
1- Select the visual and go to format tab, under format tab go to X-axis
2- In X- axis, there is one option known as Layout (you can also search Layout in the search bar option under format tab)
3- In layout increase the size as per your requirement.
Hope, it resolves your query.
TarcMaylor,
You are able to change width of the whole chart as shown in screenshot below. However, it is not possible to resize bar width of a single bar, an idea about this issue has been submitted in this link, please vote it up.
Regards,
Lydia- Thanks for the reply. I was looking for any option *except* for resizing the entire chart though... I'm not looking to change the size of one of the bars, but actually all of them. There is so much wasted, blank space on that chart that it seems like it would make it easier to see the data if all of the columns could be wider. Does it make it any more possible if I'm wanting to change the width of every column and not just one of them?
TarcMaylor,
There is no method that could be used to change width of column unless we resize the whole chart to make the column wider. There is also an idea about adjusting blank space, you can vote it up.
Regards,
If the x-axis is reading from a date format:
- Double click on the x-axis in your chart to show the "Format Axis" fly-out on the right side of the window
- If it's not already expanded, go to "Axis Options" and under "Axis Type" and select "Text Axis". This immediatly widened the columns to what I would normally expect and it allowed further manipulation with Gap Width and Overlap settings.
Double-click on the columns to bring up this fly-out to adjust Series Overlap and Gap Width:
