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donbesada's avatar
donbesada
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

PowerBI Service - Line Chart Markers

Hi,

 

When pushing data via API to my dataset and trying to plot line chart, the markers correctly show up on PowerBI Desktop as below:

 

 

 

However, when displaying the line chart on PowerBI service, the markers are not showing up although they're enabled in report:

 

 

Is it a current limitation on PowerBI service ? Will it be addressed in future updates ?

 

Thanks & Regards,

Need Help

10 Replies

  • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi donbesada,

     

    Based on my test, line chart markers apply to both Power BI desktop and Power BI Service. The left image in below screenshot is a line chart I published to service created in desktop, the right one is created directly in service. We can see that the markers display well in service.

     

    In your scenario, does this behaviour occur to other repots? After clicking on the refresh button on service site, does issue persist? Republish a new report, does issue persist?

     

    Best regards,
    Yuliana Gu

    • donbesada's avatar
      donbesada
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hi Yuliana,

       

      Thanks for the update.

       

      Yes I've also tried to remove the tile and publish a new one, Moving the 'Show Markers' toggle to On and Off but it won't make any difference.

       

      Same behaviour applies to other reports as well after deleting and re-creating them.

       

      Interestingly, the only way I can get markers to show is when I have multiple legends as below and setting the 'Show marker' toggle to OFF:

       

       

       

       

      In this scenario, even if I set the marker shape to square, it will show as round.

       

      Regards,

      • v-yulgu-msft's avatar
        v-yulgu-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi donbesada,

         

        I have tried this "Show marker" option in a different report on a different machine which also hosts Power BI desktop, I was still unable to reproduce this behaviour when publishing to service (a different account).

         

        What browser were you using? If possible, would you please share your pbix file, then, I can test for you?

         

        Besides, "the only way I can get markers to show is when I have multiple legends as below and setting the 'Show marker' toggle to OFF", because you added legends, the whole line was divided into multiple categories based on legend items. There is no more than two dots for each legend, so, it shows separate dots looks like markers, rather than drawing a line. This is different from line markers.

         

        Best regards,
        Yuliana Gu