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Skipping X Axis Label Values

I have created a stacked area chart with hourly granularity over 7 days. This means 168 data points.

The problem is that the x-axis values are unreadable as shown in the attached image.

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Is there any way to show just the date (rather than the hour) or have two levels of X-Axis labels e.g. date and hour?

The lookup table has the following fields
- Date
- Hour
- Timestamp (combines date and hour)

Thanks,

Michael
Hi Michael,

Apologies for the delayed response.

What is the data-type of these fields?

You should be able to create this chart and select 'time-series' which will display the points so they are readable.


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Let me know how you go.

Regards,
David
If the data set is not a time series, is there any other way to fix condensed axis labels?


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I understand the difficulty when using a dimension, especially if that dimension does not have all the values in the range (e.g. in my case, if certain ages are missing).

A possible setting could be "Display 1 in every X labels" ??

Regards
Hi Samuel,

You will need to expand your chart to make the x-axis readable.

Here is an example of my report:

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Now after expanding:

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If this doesn't help, can you give me an example of how your table looks, as this is what is trying to plot on the chart.

Also, have you considered adding a filter to limit the results on the charts?

Thanks,
David
Hi David- Thanks for quick reply.

I did extend the size of the chart, which works fine when viewing the report


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However, as the chart is used in a dashboard, it gets resized, and the axis labels are unreadable.


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I had considered putting a filter to restrict the chart (as in most instances, there are not many records with an age above 60+).

However, this report is linked to a number of other reports on this dashboard, where the default range for the age filter is ages 0 - 100. (So I don't think I can alter the display of this chart, without affecting the filtering on all the other reports.)