Epic idea: Advanced primary axis

[Miguel_Myers]

The primary axis are outdated and require significant improvement when compared to Excel. This makes it difficult for report creators and often leads to problems when trying to manage and style them effectively. By offering more format settings, greater control over displayed data can be provided, especially if axis ticks, new gridlines, and separators are also included.

[Tom_Duffhues]

Date / Time on Y-Axis! Such that we can plot time vs time (X and Y axis)

[RealSlimShady]

@Miguel_Myers I completely agree with your assessment. Another critical feature that’s currently missing is the ability to set the default position of the scroll bar on the main axis. Right now, when a report loads, the scroll bar defaults to the leftmost position. This creates confusion for users, as most charts prioritize newer data on the right side by default. While reversing the axis order (to place newer data on the left) is a workaround, this introduces its own problems. Trends and visual patterns become inverted, which can mislead users and distort the report’s intended message. For example, a downward trend would incorrectly appear upward, leading to flawed interpretations. This seems like a fundamental oversight—allowing users to define the scroll bar’s starting position would resolve both usability and data clarity issues. It’s a basic yet essential enhancement for intuitive report navigation.

[Shaun_Titus]

I constantly work with data at small scales where the graph auto-scaling breaks down and make it hard to understand the data with too large axis intervals. Just being able to control axis intervals or having the ability to scale the intervals would be very helpful.

[Tom_Duffhues]

Please add the option to have Date values / hierarchies on the y-axis. This to allow Data (x-axis) vs date (Y-axis) graphs possible

[kleigh]

I have a tooltip containing a chart where the axis is months. The label is set to show the month and year. Except sometimes, the month name wasn't displayed, even with a single bar showing. It turned out that with a continuous axis, it skipped displaying the month for January and just displayed the year. This happened even when I'd specifically set a format override. It wasn't clear where this behaviour was coming from and I couldn't see a way to turn it off other than select a categorical axis.

[AdamAbberfield]

I would really love to see formatting options for labels - angle, size etc excel does it this is how i would like to see pbi do it

[DrCoffee]

It's genuinely baffling to me that Power BI doesn't have something as overwhelmingly basic and fundamental as tick marks. It's objectively bad data presentation and assuming it's deliberate a woeful design decision - the product should never even have left the alpha stage without it. This is something you learn before you turn 10 - it's so basic it shouldn't even be considred a "feature". I'm sure it's not the fault of programmers, rather a result of incompetent higher-level management who don't understand even the basics of data.

Tick marks, and competent axis customisation in general, is something that should have been part of this software before it ever hit the consumer market, but the sooner it's added the better.