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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.

Administrator on 01 Apr 2024 05:43:28

We are working on this

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Justin Hylton on 27 Jul 2022 13:30:37

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Arushi Jain on 01 May 2022 02:03:33

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This post has 1431 votes at time of this comment, how many votes are needed for this feature to be prioritized?

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:47

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

In the CHORD visual, only font size is adjustable for category labels. Please enable font type and text wrapping as well.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:37

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The new Hierarchy Tree Visual Chart is very useful, but the display text in the box is very limited. It will be a good visual if the wrap text function is available for the text in the box.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:37

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

In the CHORD visual, only font size and color are adjustable for label text. Please enable font type and text wrapping as well. Thanks!

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:37

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

Need the ability to have text wrap for the y-axis category of horizontal bar charts. My suggestion would be to use the height of each bar as what controls how lines of text are visible.

In the attached image, area A is an example of a default horizontal bar chart. In area B the minimum category width and inner padding changed but the amount of text in the top two bars didn’t change. In the new method for wrapping text, Area C had the same change as area B but the top two bars now show wrapped text but still doesn’t display all of the text for the second bar. Area D increased the category width and decreased the inner padding which then allows all of the text for the second bar to be visible.


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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:37

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

Great chart but it would be even better if we had the option to change the size of the data points, wrap the axis label text, disable the lines linked to the axes name and most importantly, specify the min and max y axis values.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:27

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Text in treemaps are often lost to .... It would be good to be able to wrap the text so the who field name is visible.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:27

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There seems to be a character limit for text fields for the Decomposition tree. Would LOVE to see this limit be expanded. Or at least have the ability to wrap the text.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:56:27

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it is always difficult to align the charts if we have more categories to display on charts with long names. It would be great if you can bring that in next update

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