Ribbon Chart Gridlines

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a ribbon chart but in order to turn on Gridlines, on the Visual tab, Gridlines is grayed out. It states "to use these formatting options, add a field containing date or numeric data to the axis section of the Visualizations pane".

The X-axis has Year, Month, Date while the Y-axis has record count, the Legend is Status. Does anyone know how to get gridlines showing?

Thank you in advance for your time!

[v-yueyunzh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi , @Anonymous 

I test it in my side , i find that if you put the several Hierarchy fields on the "X-axis", the gridlines may not highlight display.

You can try to click "Drill Up" icon to see if the gridlines highlight:

Because the Month field do not meet the gridlines highlight need.

You need to add a field containing date or numeric data to the axis section of the Visualizations pane.

You can also put a filed like a number .

Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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[Anonymous]

Hello Anyia,

Thank you for that clarification and quick response. Unfortunately all the X-axis fields are text (not numeric) so that makes perfect sense why the numeric gridlines don't show.