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Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

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David Vella on 03 Mar 2017 15:47:34

If you have long names on a bar chart Y-Axis they get truncated. This is a problem if you have ones that start with something similar. Could we have a word wrap option on the format menu that takes advantage of the vertical space so the whole label can be shown.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:17

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Currently, there is no way to wrap the text in a bar chart, so when doing analysis on clinical/diagnostic categories, the text is shortened and you're limited on size. Having the ability to wrap text on the x or Y axis, will allow user to see the full text!

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:04

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

For ALL labels in ALL visuals, word wrapping needs to be the default, with an option to toggle off.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:04

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

There is not Wrap text option available in Tree Map chart and the space in chart goes unutilized. Wrap option can help visualization easy to read and understand. 

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:03

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

allow text wrapping in visuals such as treemaps and bar charts

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:03

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

It seems you've added the title functionality to some visuals, but why not go crazy and enable text wrapping in ALL data label fields for report visuals?!

At this point I could build a better data visual in PPT/Excel and that's based purely on my frustration with every "Category label" ending in "..."

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:55:52

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Have the ability to wrap the legend text so you don't have to scroll to see what you are looking at. 

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:55:52

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

I suggest to add wrap text on Treemap

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:55:52

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Please could you implement "Category" word wrapping for Pie and Doughnut visuals.

Currently the only way to include as much text as possible is to make it so small it practically becomes illegible, and even then depending the size and placement of the visual and the content of the category you still end up with "..." and loss of useful context.

It would actually make sense to roll out word wrap across the board for all visuals.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:55:52

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Quite often the labels in legend fields stretch wider than the column chart can reasonably be. It would be helpful to be able to set the legend to word wrap so it goes to 2 or three shorter lines rather than truncating and hiding some classes off the right hand side of the bar or column chart

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:53:27

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

When displaying map data at a zoomed out level. Map visualisations only display once no matter how many times that geographic location is visually present. For example: the if the USA is on the left had side of the map with visualisations present then if the USA is also appearing on the right hand side of the same map, no visualisation data will appear on the right most version.

For someone inspecting the map data, it might be important for all Geographic visualisations to appear and wrap in the same way the underlying map does.

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