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Scatterplot play button formatting

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Peter on 16 Mar 2017 00:57:05

There should be more formatting options with the 'play' button.

Most obvious is being able to shrink the font size of the displayed play dimension. It is ridiculously large and obscures the visual.

Adjusting the speed of play would be great. I am looking at signal data over the course of a day(s). I want to be able to speed it up!

I don't want to see a play axis. The current value is good enough for me.

Fyi, my use case is using a floorplan as a background image and visualizing person counts in space via fixed sensors.

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Patrick BI on 19 Jul 2022 15:28:37

RE: Scatterplot play button formatting

2 years on and the play axis still can't be formatted. Want a scatterchart on a grey background? Nope, Microsoft says you can't do that, you won't see your play axis.

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Will Mecoy on 05 Jul 2020 23:54:49

RE: Scatterplot play button formatting

One workaround I have used is increasing Y-axis range and adding a constant line to denote the correct y axis cutoff. This leaves an area at the top for the giant label to live.

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Tonya Williams on 05 Jul 2020 23:40:00

RE: Scatterplot play button formatting

There also needs to be an option on placement of the font as well as size.

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Peter on 05 Jul 2020 22:43:24

RE: Scatterplot play button formatting

I put a screenshot to help visualize in a related related forum post:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Change-the-font-size-of-the-play-axis-in-bubble-chart/m-p/42611/highlight/false?lightbox-message-images-143217=33193iF25DD99C7F7DCEA7#M16309