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Colin Power BI User on 12 Feb 2016 23:18:15

Option to allow dynamic axes on charts - allow an option in chart setup to allow the axies to change dynamically based on the values within - the start and end of an axis are fixed, despite values changing when filters are applied

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:41

RE: dynamic axis scaling

Would be great to have the option of dynamic axes on charts for better visualization of graphics.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:06

RE: dynamic axis scaling

this option is not working we cnat set the y axis scale, this featured should be applicable for all the charts.

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Andreas on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:51

RE: dynamic axis scaling

Allowing axis start/end to use a Measure as input would provide so much power to the report designer – I would really like that to be implemented :-)

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Karan Sehjpal on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:41

RE: dynamic axis scaling

we need this feature as most of the user base is looking to use it as a dynamically.

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Ed on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:54

RE: dynamic axis scaling

I'm not sure if this problem has been highlighted properly or if indeed there is a workaround.

Specifically, there should be an option to dynamically offset the start value for the Y-axis.

Currently Power BI will scale the maximum value as we drilldown but will always start at zero (despite all data being at least 75% of the total).

So you can't see the detail (or trends) at the higher levels where it's needed.

You can't manually enter start value because that won't scale to lower levels and the Log scale doesn't seem to help either.

Not sure why there isn't more votes on this. Should be an easy (but important) fix.

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Ed on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:53

RE: dynamic axis scaling

... after experimenting, in fact there does appear to be a "workaround" (but not full solution).

e.g.

If you set the start value for the Y-axis at 200M at the highest level (hierarchy) you can better see variations if data was between 200M - 280M.

When you drilldown into lower levels (e.g. 0 - 10M) the y-axis start value automatically defaults to 0.

So you can get that detail at the higher levels & live with auto scaling at the lower levels.

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Mike Donnellan on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:11

RE: dynamic axis scaling

Client specifically requested this feature in the solution.

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Jani Liimatta on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:59

RE: dynamic axis scaling

This, as well as all the other properties in Power BI, should have expressions behind. Fixed starts and ends don't work in real life.

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Tinh Nguyen on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:52

RE: dynamic axis scaling

Please add a feature that allows individually setting axis scaling/intervals for each drill down level. For now, settings apply to all drill down level.

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Roy Morris on 05 Jul 2020 22:51:44

RE: dynamic axis scaling

I want this