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Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

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Wesley Backelant on 16 Dec 2014 16:34:44

The Play ability in a Bubble Chart is a great way of discovering and visualizing trends. The current manual way of interacting with the timeline is not really useful.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:08:41

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

In addition to the play bar, it would be great if you could turn on/off tails. By tails, I mean the movement of bubbles when it is played leaves a faint tail behind showing the trajectory that the bubble took as it was animated.

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Ed Snow on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:36

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

Yup - the play axis on scatter plots was one of the big wows of PowerView in Silverlight. Porting it to html5 gets a big thumbs up for me.

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Mark Lobbezoo on 05 Jul 2020 22:05:02

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

Would it not be helpfull to just show the value which you have in the table on the axis. So you avoid the play axis. I would like to show a fixed periode in the bubble chart over time.
Just to show the total costs as size and on the Y-axis the number of sales and the X-axis the date?

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Christopher Risher on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:29

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

Did this not get implemented with Power BI Designer Desktop? Maybe, I missed it. If not, is there any word on when?

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Todd Chittenden on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:02

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

I understand your frustration there (Anonymous) but remember that PowerView was from Silverlight and PowerBI uses newer HTML5, so it's not just a matter of porting over code from one project to another.
That being said, I would LOVE to see the PLAY axis on scatter charts. (2 Votes from me!)

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:02

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

I don't get it, why can we not use the reports in the same manner in which they have been developed in PowerView - what's the point then......I'm highly annoyed!!!

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Christopher Risher on 05 Jul 2020 22:01:57

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

As @Suellen said, why would it be in Power View and not in Power BI.

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Saravanan on 05 Jul 2020 22:01:55

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

Its good to have a Playback option to show trend line for history data.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:01:19

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

two things totally important right now:

play axis
automated sync from on-prem tabular analysis services.

thankee

:-)

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Suellen on 05 Jul 2020 22:01:06

RE: Add animated "Play" axis on the Bubble Chart

You should mirror Power View. It is in Power View.