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-

This feature has been implemented in 2.8 which will be available shortly.

You will be able to fix the range by editing the minimum and maximum value in the "Custom axis range" menu under the Scale menu that is available in the Bar/Line view toolbar.

Many thanks

Keith

NB. 2.8 is now available to alpha partners - see here:
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/1671/omniscope-2.8-alpha-now-available-for-private-testing