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Vertical (current day) line on charts

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Christian Fanning on 23 May 2015 03:37:15

Vertical (current day) line on charts.

On charts you often want to show the current date as a vertical line.

I know it is a small improvement, but we can do this in almost all other reporting Technologies.

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7cf9b13c 8247-467c-9a8a-33fb437850c8 on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:35

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

Wow.. this 5 years old? I really would like to see vertical or reference lines.

The analytics tab allows constants by no vertical lines? 

There are multiple searches suggesting a hack, which I find very limited. 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Reference-Line-on-x-axis/m-p/91356#M38552

OkViz has it for free, but to remove the watermarks I have to pay 180/yr for 3 licenses min. 

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d4de0e1e 6840-41a8-973a-256e219af873 on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:20

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

custom markers would be great whether current day or milestone set by the user

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8ab3579c 4682-4386-9d1d-c97486bbf673 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:39

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

The general feature of vertical reference lines would be fantastic. If easier to implement, a Date-only option would cover most of my use cases, especially in light of the (awesome) dynamic date slicers. In Excel, a common design pattern is to annotate events that happened on some date. We create a dynamically scaled vertical reference line using a series in an X-Y scatter plot.

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ef1dd610 c26b-4bca-b6a3-725fa0669cd7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:21

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

I need it, not just for current date but for a given date (come from data)

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591ecb51 6273-4ed9-bae3-c07fdd8ce330 on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:55

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

Yes It will be great and useful!

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829e04e8 41b6-426f-a3b6-089a52c5269b on 05 Jul 2020 22:12:56

RE: Vertical (current day) line on charts

This feature is crucial for my project. Can't wait for this feature to be added!