How to display Text values on Bar chart?

[Anonymous]

Hi Power BI Team, 

I've below data. 

Here the our requirement is to compare PlanMonth Vs Actual Month,

1. If PlanMonth & ActualMonth are same then show Plan as 1, Act as 1. 

2. if PlanMonth < ActualMonth then Plan as 1, Act as 1*.  

3. if PlanMonth/ActualMonth is missing then 0. 

I have created the Plan and Act new columns by using if condtions as above.

Note:- Plan data type is (Whole Number)

           Act data type is (Text) because 1* can't be a Whole Number format. (Refer Image below)

My requirement is to show the data in "Bar chart" but it looks like we can't use Text datatype columns as "Values". 

How to show this 1* in the bar chart?  

Business Use Case:

They wanted to see the differentiation between Plan Month and Actual Month. It means How may they have planned and when it is actually happened. 

Any help on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

[v-angzheng-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Anonymous 

As far as I know, this is impossible to achieve, the value has its own value attribute.
The bar graph itself cannot display text. The reason why I suggest you change your judgment condition to -1 is to keep the attribute of the value. The reason why it is -1 instead of 1 is because the custom formatting acts on positive, negative and zero values. Use -1 to distinguish it from the other two cases (1, 0).

According to your expectations, 1 and 1* are on the same horizontal line, which means that the value of 1* is 1. This cannot distinguish 1 from another 1. This is the purpose of -1. Once -1 is used, there are positive and negative axes, which cannot be avoided. Although the final result has a positive and negative axis, it better shows the actMonth.

Glad to see different solutions.

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
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