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Creating a Key for Trend line / Static Line / Average Line

Hi,

I'm a very new user.  I've created a graph and have added 3 lines.  A Static line to representent KPI, Average line and a trend line.

 

In some cases the 3 lines are very close together and so I wondered if there was a way to illustrate the lines in a key?  Or if this is bad practice?

 

I've googled this to no avail.  Thanks for any help 🙂

 

Thanks Claire

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Hi @FlankyPank2___,

You can create a new table with three types and use it as legend of the chart, then you can write a measure to check current legend values to redirect to different line expressions.

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After these steps, you can simply use the legend to group these values.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Thank you so much for your reply!

 

I'll be having a go at this and will let you know the outcome 🙂  Thanks again

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