I have my line chart showing all the data properly, including some annotated values which are meant to act as the label in the last data point for the lines. I wanted to do it this way so that I don't have to show literally every data label for every data point.
I have everything working correctly, but I noticed I am unable to remove the annotated legend item without removing the series. By removing the series, I lose the label. Below is my chart.
As you can see, the last data points are working as labels (1092 for example). The problem is you can also see each annotated item in the legend (the colored dashes with no text next to them). How can I only show the legend items for Gained (green), Lost (red), Net (gained - lost) (yellow), and Total (blue), without the other dashes? Is this doable?
I am also open to seeing if there is another way to have only the last data point have a data label in Google Sheets. I was just working off of this tutorial.
Below is a screenshot of some of my data rows in an accompanying sheet.
as long as the annotation column is specified as 'Label' for the primary column you shouldn't be seeing the former in legend
I have the below pivot table, and i created the chart only with the data inside the table, excluding the bottom line with the totals and the right column with the grand total. If new rows automatically appear, how can I make sure they autimatically get added to the chart without having to add the bottom line as well?
best option would be to use FILTER or QUERY formula on separate sheet or hidden columns to trim down your pivoted output and feed it to chart because charts do not support advanced formulae as an input
I need your help on this one. I'm looking to create a chart (without code) to display data by month in column charts, either like this:
Or like this:
In the figure 1, I read that the volume of 10 is driven by A, B & C.
In the figure 2, I read that the volume of 10 is driven by 4xA, 2xB & 4xC.
I tried to create my chart but the labels are awful on a single line, and I did not find any way to add a newline characters (\n, ...) in my labels serie.
Any idea to do one or the other one without going though apps script?
Thanks for your help!
You can do this by adding a label column to your data. See this example,
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H5frKDH612ciLKnB0HY7FiB2FNQBobbhFGcvYqxC7f8/edit?usp=sharing
Add one label column for each data column
Create chart
Use stacked non 100%
Set range to include all labels
Set labels
In customize series check labels is on
In the downdown for label pick custom rather than value.
ScreenShots -
1. Add Label Columns 2. Set Labels on Series 3. Turn Labels On
I have a sheet with a line chart, now I'm trying to do something maybe very simple: I would like to add to this chart a vertical line using a value in a cell.
So I have this line chart
And a cell with the date 2016/01/01, I would like to have a vertical line through all the chart on the cell date
I can't figure out how to do it...
This is a copy of that sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oeiwmeDT8pUVqBQvoE_cqk7mZxxvD5moZr41Vp4IN2I/edit?usp=sharing
I would like to show a vertical line using the "Purchase date"
I had the same problem and created a solution to overcome limitations of Google Sheets charts.
The main idea is to create an additional line in the chart, with only two points, both with the desired date. The value of the first point is 0 and the last has the maximum value of the Y axis. This way, the line always covers the entire height of the chart.
Screenshot of the Chart
Note that it is necessary to add two new values in the X axis (highlighted in blue on the sheet). Don't worry with the fact they are repeated. Google Sheets handles it correctly.
These values can be placed at the beginning of the lists. This way, it is possible to add new values at the end of them.
This solution can be viewed in: "[GoogleSheets] Dinamic Vertical Line in a Chart"
To change position of red line, just select a different value in "Purchase date" (yellow cell).
I made a merge of my first solution with the one suggested by dimo414 and created a new solution with two variations.
In the previous version of the spreadsheet, there were only two points to draw the vertical line.
In the new version, a third point were inserted to show intersection between the line and the real curve. A new column was also created, containing only a label for the new point.
The result is:
Theses changes can be seen in green background in sheets 'Dashboard_v2' and 'Dashboard_v3' of the SpreadSheet.
To determine coordinates of the new point, two approaches were used:
Search Purchase Date directly in the dataset (see sheet 'Dashboard_v2')
If the goal is to highlight only points of intersection that belong to the original dataset, it is just necessary to VLOOKUP() the date in the dataset.
Interpolate the two points immediately smaller and larger than the purchase date (see sheet 'Dashboard_v3')
Given the points [x1,y1], [x2,y2] and a value of x (where x1 <= x <= x2), its possible to find an interpolation point [x,y] with the following formula:
y=(y2-y1)*(x-x1)/(x2-x1)+y1
Although this formula is easy to implement, find the correct points to interpolate is more challenging and requires a bit of creativity.
At first, I thought of using a JS script to make things easier, but decided to use only builtin functions.
By the way, different approaches to find [x1,y1] and [x2,y2] are welcome.
To make things easier to understand, each point coordinate is determined in a different cell (see L2:M5) and the point of intersection is in L6:M7.
Of course, its possible to join all of them in just one cell, but I thought it would be harder to understand.
To close, one more detail: According to above definition, interpolation formula is valid only if (x1 <= x <= x2). Thus, both cells C2 and M6 have protections to limit the value of 'x'.
One way is to add a label to your x-axis.
For example, this is a chart that plots weight against date, with a label "Cheat Day" on 2021-07-21
For the data:
Date
Label
Weight (kg)
Weight Goal (kg)
2021-07-19
83.85
75
2021-07-20
84.55
75
2021-07-21
Cheat Day
83.8
75
2021-07-22
84.95
75
2021-07-23
83.75
75
Go to Edit the chart > Setup > Under X-axis > Click on ••• next to your "Date" column > Add labels > Select the column "Label" as your label.
Your Chart Editor > Setup should look like this:
you can have it like this, unfortunately not programmatically. the only way is to insert a line via Drawing and position it manually where needed.
spreadsheet demo
As best I can tell there isn't a way to add a vertical marker line to a chart in Google Sheets. One option that may be "good enough" in many cases is to "Add notes to a data point" and then use "Format data point" to make the point more visible. Here's an example, from your spreadsheet:
Unfortunately one limitation with this approach is you can only label a data point in the data set the chart is displaying. In your case the date you wanted to mark with a line isn't in the data set, so this won't work directly. You might be able to introduce a separate data series consisting of just that date and then add a note to that data point, but I haven't fiddled with it enough to make it work.
I have created a chart that references table as a source .I need to delete some rows in a table after chart is plotted and leaving the chart unchanged. Is it possible to do that?
-Raghu
While actually deleting data that a chart depends on isn’t really possible, you could probably go about this a number of other ways.
You could place the cell data that your chart depends on in another
worksheet separate from the chart, then hide this "data sheet" by
setting its ISheet.Visible property to SheetVisibility.Hidden or
SheetVisibility.VeryHidden.
If you require your chart and data to reside on the same sheet, you
could hide the rows or columns that your data resides on by setting
IRange.Hidden to true for those rows or columns. By default, a
newly-created chart will not plot points that are in hidden rows or
columns, so you would also need to set IChart.PlotVisibleOnly to
false for the chart to take these hidden cell values into account.