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Trend Lines
Anonymous sure technically you can but it's ugly at best, and worthless if you're looking at more than one year. You have to set the x-axis to "continuous" for trendlines to work, so the chart will only show auto-generated increments on that axis rather than the actual quarters.
As you can see, Acme Inc. was doing really well in Quarter Zero of 2016, a major improvement over the nosedive they took in Quarter Five of 2015.
Not to mention how bad it would look even if you could see the individual quarters labeled on the x-axis.
If I labeled quarters like that in a report that my execs have to show to other people, they would start wondering what they pay me for. But labeling it this way disables the trendline feature anyway, so fortunately it isn't even an option.
Good thing there are ways of manually calculating trendlines, because this feature is still mostly useless.
Anonymous yes, I know is ugly and that it cannot be used as something that you can show to top management. And as well as all the facts that you have described below.
I've just wanted to show that Quarters (as numbers) is working and with quarter labels as we all know it is not working. Because of this issue our customer will not use Power BI vizualization, but Excel chart.
I am looking forward to solution of the issue.