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Power BI Desktop Update for May 2024 Part six of a seven-part series of blogs |
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This month's bigger than average update sees new pivot table style matrix layouts, the emergence of modern tooltips, calculation groups and the DAX query pane from preview and a couple of other smaller changes.
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Following last month's improvements to line formatting in Power BI ... more line formatting enhancements!
The top line showing sales for the Land environment in the chart below is a bit dominant:
You might want not to show this line.
You can now hide the line, without removing it:
Here we've chosen not to show this line.
However, this doesn't remove the line - it's still available for selection and visual interactions:
The line is still visible - you just can't see it!
I think this could be a useful thing to do, as sometimes you want to keep a line in a chart so that the scaling remains the same but not have the line appear (you used to have to do this by setting the line colour to be identical to the background colour).
You can specify the relationship between dots and dashes in lines in a chart:
An example showing how the default pattern of 5,5,0,5 would look (taken from Microsoft's blog on the subject).
Here's an example I created:
The line segments are doubling each time (so going from 10 to 20 to 40), but the gap remains at 10. There appears to be a limit of 4 settings (ie 8 numbers) that you can type in.
Here's what this would look like for a typical chart:
The Scale by width toggle "keeps your reports looking good no matter the pixel width of your custom line".
OK, this is getting silly. You can now specify the format of the ending of each dash:
We're talking the end of each dash: it's almost impossible to see the difference between the settings even if you expand the width of your dashes to 12 pixels.
For those who care enough to tweak this setting, here's how to do it:
The 3 settings available.
Apparently there are similar improvements in "reference lines, forecast lines, leader lines, small multiple gridlines, and the new card’s divider line", but since my readership has surely now dwindled to 0 I'm stopping here!
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