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The X axis moves up and down to accommodate bars which may vary over a wide range. It is currently not possible to disable this behaviour.

I have achieved close to what I want by adding a dummy dataset containing the maximum and minimum value I want to show, then removing the border, shadow and gradient fills from the display and setting the colour for the max and min value to white. All I need to do now is work out if I can remove the numbers from the tops of the columns, do that I dont leave "hanging values". By calling my maximum and minimum data !Max and ZMin I force them to be the first and last values.

Nice workaround. Re-classify as an Idea and vote for this - we'll consider for 2.7.

You can hide the labels at the top of the bars by selecting "Tools > Layout > Show measure labels at top of bars" in the Bar view toolbar. However, in certain cases it wasn't working which I have fixed in tonight's release. The fixes should be available from 2.6 build 503 or later.

Thanks for that - I was looking to do it in 2.5, which is what our users see - When will 2.6 be beta/mainstream?

We don't have an exact date. We hope for beta within the next few weeks, but support and fixing is taking far longer than anticipated.

How does this work ?? ...Adding a dataset with Max and Min Values will this only work if those values are outside those of the orirginal dataset..

I think that's what WKeith wants. There's no way using this trick to get the bars to be cropped by a smaller range. All it does is ensure at least the range given is shown.

I was trying to do it in 2.5, as that is what my users have. Keen to see 2.6 beta/production as mentioned elsewhere.

I hadn't considered cropping high/low value ranges - to do that you would need to set up a column with an if clause that replaced the "real" value with the "Max" or "Min value if it exceeded it or went below it - also 0 needs to be in the range to be dsiplayed, though I guess you could subtract a constant from each value........

To achieve the same result in 2.6 5.04 (where I managed to hide the numbers at the top of the columns) I had to use a white "background" .jpg file, to prevent Visokio "helpfully" forcing outlines round the white bars - it does that for white on white. The .jpg fools it.

To sum up, we need an option to set min/max fixed values for the bar view. I've given Keith another vote on this for his dedication.

Could this be put back into the 2.7 alpha? - "Tools > Layout > Show measure labels at top of bars"

Cheers

It's here, and now per-measure:

Measures > [each measure] > Scale > Show value labels

thanks

See also the following duplicate requests, currently accounting for 5 further votes:

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/575/ability-to-specify-or-fix-maximum-y-axis-values-for-bar-charts/p1
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1350/fixing-2-differnet-y-axis-value-ranges-independent-of-the-data/p1

See also related idea:

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1339/request-adjustable-axis-rangesscale-in-the-new-barline-view-