Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Join us at FabCon Vienna from September 15-18, 2025, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, SQL, and AI community-led learning event. Save €200 with code FABCOMM. Get registered

Axis with configurable units (/Interval)

Configurable option of Units (Interval) for the axis in a graph. Now PowerBI automatically choices to units between values on the size of the graph and the data. As an example with a small graph and values ranging from minus -200 and +400 the unit PowerBI choices to use is 200. In this example data becomes hard to understand. If there is an option to set a unit on the axis, we could improve visibility if the automatic one doesn’t fill the needs. In the example we could set the unit of the y-axis to 50, this will increase the number of values on the y-axis. Maybe the number of labels will increase on the y-axis and not enough space to put them. So I can imagine design team wants to make the label part dynamic? But the graph axis lines based on the value put.
Status: Needs Votes
Comments
tsevenhuysen1
New Member
Yes please. This is very frustrating for me. For example, I'd like to be able to have a histogram centered around 50% with a min value of 30% and max value of 70%, but I'm being forced into label intervals of 0.2 so when I set 0.3 as a min value, it forces it down to 0.2, which makes the entire chart imbalanced.
fbcideas_migusr
New Member
Something so simple and overlooked; why is this still an issue after more than a year? What about Major and Minor gridlines and tickmarks, too?
phoebe_huang
New Member
Just voted. Indeed very frustrating!
cdam1
New Member
Dealing with data that has contract expiry dates at 12, 36, 48, 60 months... the axis needed 12 mth intervals yet defaults to 20 months.
JLippens
New Member
Like when is this something that will happen? Frustrating using Excel to create charts when you have a great tool in the making.
noah_lull1
New Member
This is something that leadership is continuously asking for. I can do it in excel and Qlik but not Power BI
SThornburg
New Member
Indeed, the ability to control gridline interval helps to make the chart more readable, and can provide specific business meaning when users think in certain intervals. As was previously noted, this feature exists in Excel and is quite helpful at times.
taylor_ellis
New Member
Please, please, please!! My boss won't take me seriously with these unfriendly intervals. He thinks I'm incompetent so I keep throwing Power BI under the bus. Sorry 'bout that.
criolivar
New Member
soooo frustrating
jojedaa
New Member
Please! We need this option. This is basic in excel, so I don't understand why it's not an option in Power BI.