Users cannot customize axis intervals in Power BI, limiting their ability to display data in desired increments (e.g., 7 days, 4 weeks, 3 months). The program currently dictates intervals.
It's been a year since I posted my 2025 "wishlist" for #powerbi asking for two BASIC data visualization abilities to be added to the program. Neither have been implemented in the past year, and it's shameful because Power BI is one of the most widely used dashboard platforms AND has been around for a full decade, yet is STILL missing really basic data visualization features. There's a lot, but the TWO I asked for a year ago were: 1. THE ABILITY TO CUSTOMIZE AXIS INTERVALS Yup. You can't customize your axis intervals still. You get what the program gives you and you can't change it. At all. In any way. Are you charting the number of days/weeks/months and want intervals of 7 days or 4 weeks or 3 months? Sucks to be you (us). 2. LABEL PLACEMENT AND VISIBILITY Want to customize where labels are besides "above" or "under" (don't even get me started on the crappy naming convention with this - I'll put it in the comments)? Nope. Can't do it. Want a certain label (or even all the labels in a series) to the left/right of a data point? Try again, my homies. Want a label centered on a data point (sometimes you need this). No fly zone. I've figured out hacks for almost every chart type to get labels exactly where I want (and that will adjust as data changes), but simple label placement should NOT require hacks. So, in this, the year of 2026, let it be resolved that #Microsoft and all the people that develop #PowerBI stop putting all their time and resources into selling their AI tools and all their complicated Power BI / Fabric licensing and add things to Power BI that are actually useful. Without basic data visualization abilities like customizing Axes and Labels, can Power BI really be called an adequate data visualization program? Probably not... But, you have ME to help you bend Power BI to your will and make it do things it doesn't want to. Link to the 2025 wishlist in the comments.