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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 Po...
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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

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    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi donbesada,

     

    I haven't noticed that you used PowerBI RestAPI calls to load data, so I could not open the .pbix file you shared. To determine whether it is related to data source, would you please create another simple file which imports data from a different data source (like excel or SQL...), publish it to service to see whether line markers will disappear?

     

    Regards,
    Yuliana Gu

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      donbesada
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Hi Yuliana,

       

      Just tried with an Excel spreadhseet as the data source and same issue.

       

      Line markers are displayed on PowerBI Desktop but do not show up on Service.

       

      Regards

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        v-yulgu-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        9 years ago

        Hi donbesada,

         

        This is very odd behavior. In your scenario, can you see the line markers if creating report directly on service site?

         

        Regards,
        Yuliana Gu