MASTERING Bar Charts in Power BI | No more Cut Labels

[@richardmartin7904]

Again top tier content. You would make an excellent professor with logical, clear, well thought out explanations. I love that you deliberately spend time explaining anything and everything that can go wrong.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

so nice to hear that! thanks a lot

[@D4rkm00r]

Your wizardry is next level. Thanks Bas! EDit: Just to add, i produce dashboards for a client that is present in only a handful of sub-categories at most so this method looks clean, concise and adheres to UI/UX principles perfectly. Amazing work.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thanks for watching

[@nawafsharaf]

Excellent idea Bas! Lots of attention to detail. This has been my headache for pas 2-3 years. Now we do all these and boss say “switch to pie chart!” 😆

[@michelcesar85]

Dude, you are a creative genius at Power BI! That was awesome! Congratulations from Brazil!

[@tianyuzhao5385]

Hi Bas! Just want to say a deep thank you for all the videos you have been posting. I am trying to watch all of them haha, quite challenging but out of each one, you teach me some very nice visualization tricks for the monthly KPI report I am doing and different powerBI tools I designed for operation (I work in logistics). Your out of box thinking is really amazing and something I cannot find elsewhere. Please keep up the good work like always and bear in mind each video you released benefit so much people out in the world that you can’t possibly imagine❤

[@nayanagrawal9878]

6:12 In the current version of Power BI, there is no option for spacing in the bars category. Now how do we increase the space between both the bars?

[@farhatwajidkhan]

I have no idea how you do it. So good with DAX and getting everything done. Mind Blowing!

[@Nomgooses]

This has been a major pain point for me in Powerbi! My solution was to create a crosswalk of shortened/abbreviated category names to get the whole value to fit in a barchart, but I like this solution much better. Its very clean and easier to maintain (ie, in my solution I'd have to watch for new categories appearing to create a new abbreviation). Thank you for your videos, you always have such creative workarounds to the limitations in PBI.

[@extraktAI]

Not only is the video great, the video editing is masterful! Amazing job!

[@mohitupadhayay1439]

Bass! People are going to remember you for millions of years to come pal. Please make some Udemy courses too. Folks can benefit a lot from your courses.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

thanks a lot! I tried udemy, but was not able to get a lot of exposure on the platform. You can therefore find my courses on datatraining.io/powerbi-training

[@D4rkm00r]

@@HowtoPowerBI I use a lot of Maven course on Udemy in conjunction with your work here. Such a shame you didn't get traction. I'll absolutely pick up a few of your courses. Muchos gracias for everything you do.

[@sandipjabade1]

​@@HowtoPowerBI you are charging $2750 for a course , it's not affordable if we compare with udemy price it's too huge

[@HowtoPowerBI]

@@sandipjabade1 the power bi essentials learning path is 30 usd, maybe that is more interesting to you. The design transformation is not comparable to any udemy course.

[@Lottumracing]

Awesome post, I used it today to show TotalOutput, ReprintTotal and percentage for each operator in a perfect way...looked awesome!!

[@dthibby]

Again, another amazing video I stumbled on trying to make my bar charts better looking! Idk if I couldn't follow along well enough but it looks like the latest versions of PBI no longer have the custom labels feature you demo'd at 4:23. Regardless, amazing video thank you so much for the guidance!!!

[@ohdang8515]

This is a great video. Absolutely wild that this isn't out of the box functionality and requires so many additional hoop-jumps to execute.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Agreed… hopefully soon

[@Alan-eb6gp]

This is absolutely class, have struggled with the space on these charts for years. thanks

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@hellmutmatheus2626]

Bas I love you man! You saved me a ton of times! I wanted to work for you but then I realize that "okay, who am I gonna copy for my work?". Thanks man!!!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

That sooo nice to hear thank u!☺️ join then u will be better than me and then i can copy from u 🤓😁

[@zuzanabocanski6580]

Thanks!

[@The-Data-Guru]

Everyday I learn something new on this channel

[@sanumpzha]

I tried this today and it went well, thank you Bas.

[@devashishjain5493]

Finally the old excel features are showing up. Great video, would have loved to see the interaction with other visuals, whether they mess up or not. Probably not, but I just have urge to test. Thanks Bas.

[@leegarrett1908]

Not even watched and already I like it. Great work. Gonna watch now :)

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Lol 😊 hope u still like it after watching

[@scottwilliams6741]

Another great solution to replace the out of the box bar chart with a way better-looking bar chart. Great video, Bas!!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thanks! 👍

[@jarek_426]

This was actually really good, i like attention to details

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Yes you can .. use the fx button for the label colors :)

[@datayoda74]

Excellent work and you are one of the best in dashboard designing and UI. Great work Bas

[@HowtoPowerBI]

thanks a lot!

[@srinupampana3814]

Brilliant solution for the Labelling. ❤ Thanks for your Awesome solutions in Power BI

[@HowtoPowerBI]

thank you for watchn!!! :D

[@srinupampana3814]

Boss, Can you make a video on dynamic colum headers in Matrix visual when we are using the Measures as Values in Matrix.

[@Sisi-vp7xs]

Best PBI advanced instruction ❤

[@RoshankumarPatro-v9x]

your videos come at the right time in my feed tons of thanks bas

[@MrAszpic]

It looks surprisingly clean! Neat for when you've got few categories or want to fill extra vertical space

[@HowtoPowerBI]

yea exactly as long as you don't have super many items it is worth considering this alternative - thanks for watching again! :D

[@adilmajeed8439]

Simply Awesome, dont find better words to explain

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thank you so much 😀

[@garryelsdon6296]

Excellent presentation. Very clear and easy to understand and follow. My challenge is how can you make the labels dynamic. For example if there was more than 1 field in the bar chart and you used the drill down filter how could you get the the labels to also change.

[@ShubhsNagar]

I was trying it but this doesn't seem to work for me. I'm clueless. When I'm putting the label placeholder= 0 in my bar chart, nothing changes except the colour of bars. The width of bars remains the same and the bars don't show the value "0" above them. I don't know what to do now ☹️

[@goredsox151]

He's using a clustered bar chart. If you use a stacked barchart it will put the dummy measure in front (or behind) the actual data bar.

[@juanignacioXI]

Bas once again amazing work / tip / trick / magic!!. Thanks a lot this was a this was a headache.

[@jaymehta3320]

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing this.

[@JeruelCamat]

Hey Bass, any way of getting those labels left aligned?

[@аннаю-ц9ъ]

Are you a wizard? Great idea and so easy to do, thanks!

[@jecwonch]

This guy seems to amaze me every time

[@HowtoPowerBI]

🙏 thanks for the nice comment :)

[@Malachiasz1983]

Great tutorial and awesome usage of measures and nuances of Power BI. On the other hand it is crazy that UI change that should be 2 clicks away, natively in Power BI, requires 15 minutes tutorial to implement.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Totally agree

[@ShovanMandal]

I love your tweaks !! it helped me on so many cases..💯

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Cool!! Happy to hear it :)

[@kumarvg5383]

As usual, great content for us from the finest person... keep rocking 😎

[@HowtoPowerBI]

😊😎👊 thank you Kumar !!!!

[@AndresFelipeCastrillonValencia]

Great technique, thanks for sharing all this knowledge

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad it was helpful!

[@naimuddinsiddiqui9249]

Amazing ! You are giving a new vision your dedication toward Community Unremarkable .Your content take me to next level in power Advance Journey. However One concern I have checked in power bi service level Custom label not displaying the Labels for this scenario if you have any workaround pls do let me know.

[@cjedaguro]

Hello Bas! Just wanted to check if this is still applicable as of today? I tried it but the CUSTOM LABEL under DATA LABELS cannot be found. Thank you

[@viniciusfranciscodeoliveir432]

Thank you Bas, no more need on using custom visualizations :)

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Awesome :)

[@alexkim7270]

I literally just thought about this a few hours ago. Thank you!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

i'm reading your mind ... or your mine ! :D

[@BryanBarnum-i1w]

Have they removed the option for conditional formatting on data labels? For some reason on an old visual I have the fx button but when recreating for a new visual it is gone.

[@j_d4303]

This has helped me massively, thanks! Just one question, maybe someone has already asked it. If i have a drill down on a bar chart, is there a way to switch the labels to show the lower level category names?

[@douglascory]

I'm curious about this as well

[@josefedericopresno6668]

Another great video, Thanks a lot, Bas. Always learning from You.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

I appreciate that! thanks for watching Jose

[@sreemalapal]

Hi..How can we put the labels on top of the bars for Stacked Bar chart visual ? In this particular visual, we can apply only 1 field or measure!

[@imrankhan-nq8ug]

if you figure it out please let me me I'm facing the same issue

[@BuddyLongLegs]

Great video Bas! This makes the chart neat. Unfortunately, I got lost @5:55. I can't see these padding and width that you adjusted. I am only seeing 'Space between categories' which is not enough to make the labels look ok 😔

[@tobydoane]

Fantastic lesson. Thank you!

[@jahmed525]

Absolutely top notch stuff Bas. Love sll your vids and way you explain all the corner cases. ❤❤

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad you like it!

[@arbazahmad7177]

Excellent technique 👌......Thanks for sharing amazing content.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thank you! Cheers! :D

[@armsotopre]

Thanks for your help, you video are very concrete to learning

[@KetakiGadgil_15]

Hi, thanks for the video ! Instead of creating measure for custom label for Subcategory, we could directly put Subcategory field in custom labels. This helps in not showing special characters issue like - &amp.

[@muhammetmuslu4429]

It was exactly what I was looking for thank you very much

[@AB-ox8ln]

Amo a este hombre, gracias.

[@garryelsdon6296]

Hey Bass excellent once again. My questionis I have a bar chart that drills down 3 levels. How can the labelling be made interactive with the new name of categories as you drill down..

[@chukachukwu]

Another great video, thanks Bas for all the great work u do

[@HowtoPowerBI]

:D thank you!!! very happy to hear that :D

[@chukachukwu]

Fantastic stuff Bas, used this today in a project. I tweaked your measure a bit so It worked with a field parameter. Great stuff

[@Saif_Ali_Khan_1301]

the Best powerbi guy in the world

[@info2satish]

Simply brilliant! Love from Bharat ❤

[@HowtoPowerBI]

thank you!!! :D .. love back from Düsseldorf ;)

[@luisfernandomacedo1451]

Mastery of a master in dataviz

[@HowtoPowerBI]

😊

[@WaqasGulll]

Thank you so much, great content ❤❤❤ I am facing 1 issue if you get time or someone else here in the community to solve. If there's no value of any category the bar chart top showing blank area because the Y-Axis is available i just checked because as per your telling i set it off. How can i remove the blank area?

[@QueenOfTheRainbow]

LOVE this! Thank you!

[@SezhiyanSR]

hey bas excellent work. but place holder labels are not visible in my case?

[@tubeitz]

This is another level! thanks mate

[@KehindeIsaac]

Thanks for this, very insightful. I tried it for one of my reports and it worked, am trying to do same again and I can't navigate the custom label in the data label value section, its not there anymore, is there another way to navigate through this.

[@Multidimensional.Analyst]

Try switching the visual to line chart, apply the custom label then switch back to bar chart

[@vihasharma7883]

You are an absolute genius

[@HowtoPowerBI]

i wish :D

[@zeeshansaif9832]

My bar chart is showing only top 5 categories using numeric parameter, I can shown any number of top categories. When I put 0 in a measure and add that to bar chart , it give all of categories, instead of 5. is there any way to manage that?

[@JeffersonOsorio-gx1gw]

i try this, but it does not work when you have a graphic with a field of counts. :( or im missing something? Regards!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

should also work :)

[@EllieCarter5225]

So bummed. My custom labels is not showing under the Format values. 😥

[@jessontvarghese327]

This is super cool Bas.. You are awesome. Thank you...

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad you like it! thx for watching!!! :D

[@mariapradeepm]

This is just amazing as usual from you!! How do you really think and come up with this??? Just awesome, looking forward to hear from you.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

:):) thanks a lot, looking at ways to improve the reports and just clicking around (a looot of it)

[@sameera0612]

Brilliant approach!

[@vibhudhyani9466]

Simply genius ❤️

[@HowtoPowerBI]

:)

[@DatawithHimanshu]

Top notch content as usual. Thank you 😊

[@grl4171]

If you dont need drillthrough or custom tooltips, the horizontal barchart custom visual is easier for this approach. You can switch from hammer head, lollipop, line... But nice content, very usefull :)

[@EszterKaracs]

This is amazing! However, I don't have the inner padding option in the Bars and Spacing option. Can anyone suggest what I could do about this?

[@SammysMindChirps]

Hello! thanks a lot for the video. I have got a query. I'm using Infographic Designer for one of my use cases where I am required to use Small Multiples. To make the graphs 508 compliant, I would want to use fill patterns for the bar graphs, but Infographic designer doesn't offer one. Could you please suggest how to go about resolving this? Thanks!

[@gripro1]

Cool, but how made round corner of columns histogram?

[@HowtoPowerBI]

hm, you probably could do it by adding error bars .. set the position equal to the column value .. change the marker to circle and increase the size

[@blackman34]

Is there a way to do this when drilling down to another level?

[@fenrir433]

love this idea! i also use Data bars in matrix visuals to also reach the same point.

[@mathaem]

Thank you Bass ! An amazing video again ^^

[@HowtoPowerBI]

😎👊😊 thank you for watching it !!!

[@jay6817]

Thanks. I'll just go with the first thing you showed me, which is simply increase the width of the label. Good enough.

[@harishkumar-ls5nl]

Hi @HOW TO POWER BI am using a measure customelabel =0 but am not able to see 0 there? why?

[@maigiakhiem198]

How to create a bar chart similar to the top 5 products? Is there something wrong when using with top products? Pls help me!

[@ifyluv7402]

When I add the dummy measure it does not show the value 0. Also when I don't have custom label but I have a field section under my values, and when I add the measure I created it still does not show

[@imrankhan-nq8ug]

if you figure it out please let me me I'm facing the same issue

[@pascalmeij7812]

This looks great! I’m trying to get this to work in combination with fileld parameters. The user can then choose the column on the axis and the label shows the names. I cannot get this to work. Maybe something for a future video 😅

[@heitoyam2433]

Thanks Bas. If my chart has grill down function, say Region > Country > City. How shall I define the label measure?

[@HowtoPowerBI]

you would need to build IF logic into the label measure .. something like IF ( SELECTEVALUE ( dimGeo[City] ) , "City label text" , IF ( SELECTEVALUE ( dimGeo[Country] ) , "Country label text" , "Region label text" ))

[@ALEXMELO1234]

You are great! Very smart solution!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thanks Alex! 🙏

[@VietDang-z9e]

Another amazing work. However, the labels do not work properly if I want to see Year To Date bar chart and filter by different month. Can you look into this problem? or there is no way we can do with that?

[@sebguy1588]

Is it possible to do it for a Stacked Bar Chart?

[@harshada5]

Great Video, Unfortunately not working with my bar graph, what could go wrong? I have crated lables measure but not reflecting in bar graph,

[@HowtoPowerBI]

maybe check against the file of the video to see what you did differently (see description for the download link)

[@Goose1986RIP]

Use a Clustered Bar Chart - not a Stacked Bar Chart

[@catalinatobonfernandez5689]

Hi there, thanks grate video. What I can do is I have a category that don't have a value? I I don't want to get display as a category if the value is zero? Really appreciated if you can explain? Thanks

[@nilsreger8222]

Great video! Does this also work for stacked charts? Or any solution for those?

[@thopacio]

Thanks Bas! This is really useful, but how is possible to use the labels on a hierachy in the same visual object

[@mothank35]

can this trick be done using stack bar charts?

[@EddieRenton]

I’m on the latest version but can’t find custom labels under values in data labels. Any help?

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Turn on on object formatting under preview options

[@nansijosey]

Amazing! How can I make this work using parameters in my bar chart?

[@hermesjrd]

As always a great insight, thanks

[@Karla-uv2kx]

Fantastic, but...I´m using bigger strings and text is hidden. What is the solution?