Dashboards & Visualizations

Rotate the data on bar chart value

Chamrong
Explorer

Hi Support

I have a bar chart. I can do the show value (Select Format > General > Show Data Values > On), but the value are shown as horizontal.

Is there a ways to show the data is vertical in the bar chart?
Regards

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cmerriman
Super Champion

from the docs, it doesn't look like you can rotate data labels.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/Viz/ChartConfigurationReference#Bar_chart_pro...

if this is something you'd like developed, I'd submit an Enhancement Request with Support.

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michel_batista
New Member

Hi Guys,

I need the same thing, as we don't have this as a standard feature we can do it using javascript, however, this is for dashboards not reports.

Steps:

1) Add an ID for your chart editing the source
e.g:

2) create a javascript to update the labels and put them in vertical, of course, this is just an example you can customize by yourself,
Note: Keep the transform value and add the rotate for -90 or other value.

require([
         'jquery',
         'splunkjs/mvc',
         'splunkjs/mvc/simplexml/ready!'
     ], function($,mvc){
        var my_chart = mvc.Components.get("my_chart_id");

        if(my_chart != undefined){
         my_chart.getVisualization(function(chartView) {
             chartView.on("rendered", function() {

                $("#my_chart_id .highcharts-data-labels g").each(function(index){

                    //Used to rotate the label in 90º
                    var transformAttr = $(this).attr('transform');
                    //Avoid add the rotate more than one time
                    if(!transformAttr.includes('rotate'))
                        $(this).attr('transform', transformAttr + 'rotate(-90)');
                 });                


             });                     
         }); 
    }
});

3) Add the javascript reference in your dashboard,

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cmerriman
Super Champion

from the docs, it doesn't look like you can rotate data labels.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/Viz/ChartConfigurationReference#Bar_chart_pro...

if this is something you'd like developed, I'd submit an Enhancement Request with Support.

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