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Resize bar width for a single bar

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Chandresh on 06 Jun 2017 11:45:56

Is it possible to make a single bar in a stacked chart wider than they appear by default?
It takes more space in a chart, to increase a bar, need to increase a size of whole chart then only it is visible.
Can we get a option to increase the width of a single bar stacked chart?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:15

RE: Resize bar width for a single bar

Gets my vote - would be great to specify the width of the bars especially when there is only one.

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Pravallika Munnangi on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:31

RE: Resize bar width for a single bar

when we use the clustered column chart, if we add values to it, they're all clustered in the middle of the x-axis. I have this extra space to the left and right of the columns I'd like to utilize, please help

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Renco Lubbers on 05 Jul 2020 22:50:33

RE: Resize bar width for a single bar

I agree. Especially when we use filters in the report, some bar charts will only show 1 or maybe 2 bars which are really tiny unless the complete chart is made bigger (which obviously shouldn't be necessary. In my opinion the process to automatically determine the bar width should be: 1. Determine the size of the chart, 2. Determine the amount of bars to show, 3. Equally fill the space of the chart with the bars.
In addition, add the option to determine the width of the bars automatically or manually. When automatically is chosen, proces as described above. When manually is chosen, the user sets the width of the bars, risking the fact that when the chart is too small, these bars will not show in the chart. To fix this, add a scroll option to the chart when there's more data to show then there is space for it.

Would love to see this feature for all bar charts.