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AadFourpoints
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Simple plain fixed Constant line in bar graph, how?

Dear community,

 

It could be a lack of knowledge or maybe I missed something critical, but just playing around with PowerBI (February 2023) and created the most simple dashboard one can think of: x-axis dates and y-axis decimal values regarding the sum of something, source is a csv file. The values on that y-axis are shown as 1K, 2K, 3K et cetera. I do not know how to change that representation. Now I want to add a plain, simple, fixed line at 2.5K (or 2,500 as it represented) but whatever I try I can not find and or activate that "Constant line" option in the Visualizations Pane. It only shows "Error Bars" and nothing else, whatever I try, change, add or delete.

Creating a quick other report on an SQL database with also decimal values on the y-axis does show the "Constant line" option, so something should be wrong in my report, but I can not find out what exactly. Do I think too complicated or did I miss something to get this line into my report?

 

Thanks for thinking along and kind regards,

 

Aad

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AadFourpoints
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Dear community,

 

Not knowing how to solve this issue and seeing that another report on an SQL table gives alot of options regardings lines in the Visualisation pane, I did following workaround. I created a database in SQL Server, imported this CSV file. I exported the newly created table to a flat file and when I import this flat file in PowerBI I got this Constant Line option (but no other options). I am flabbergasted, the only diference is that the new flat file has UTF-16 and the original has UTF-8. So, problem solved but with a bit of an overkill workaround if I may say so .....

 

Kind regards,

 

Aad

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