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Epic idea: Advanced primary axis

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Miguel Myers on 08 Oct 2024 05:00:00

The primary axis are outdated and require significant improvement when compared to Excel.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.

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Morven Moeller on 15 Jun 2022 19:49:07

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Why isn't this an option? It's an option in Excel, why not in Power BI? (I imagine it has to do with cross filtering, but still at least give us the option.)

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Karen Moore on 07 Jun 2022 00:17:25

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The lack of the this critical feature makes Power BI visualizations far inferior to competing software. Current state is unacceptable to the managers using these reports.

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Raylene Ames on 20 May 2022 17:32:48

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please add this functionality! very much needed

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Jakub Tuczynski on 09 May 2022 08:12:21

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So many years and it is still not there ;(

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Raja Dhanapal on 21 Apr 2022 03:31:57

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This is very basic functionality and its available in Excel .I request you add .

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Darren James Stott on 31 Mar 2022 14:01:36

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This is such a basic requirement that I cannot believe that A) it hasn't already been implemented, and B) there aren't more upvotes. I have a KPI report where the required interval in 10's, from 0% to 70%, and yet I'm stuck with having to inform the user that you can't do it in Power BI, to which they reply "Really?! I do it in Excel. No thanks, I'll stick with Excel..."

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Nilima Rodrigues on 18 Mar 2022 21:11:35

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Having ability to set custom intervals is crucial for most of the visuals. Please add this functionality.

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Terri A. Cook on 05 Jan 2022 15:02:11

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I strongly agree with this Idea. The ability to set x-axis intervals is crucial for effective chart development. I am a new user and am very surprised that this feature does not already exist.

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Subbarao Vangalli on 22 Dec 2021 04:46:14

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this is required and more helpful

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D R on 10 Dec 2021 10:29:57

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@PowerBI #addthisASAP :)
Add a simple variable to set an interval on the x-axis, be it for a specific need or just to de-clutter the visual.
In my case x-axis is a reporting week 'Thurs to Weds', which needs a specific from/to range displayed (like '1 Apr - 7 Apr', rather than a 'week commencing' date that would be too easy). Hence not formatted as a date field but as a text field.
There's a lot of weeks in a year ... so way too much x-axis text and it's just horrible to look at. A 1 in 4 interval would vastly improve the visual for the user and improve engagement, rather than being distracted by the noise under the graph.

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