Stacked Bar Chart

November 5, 2019 By Mike Carlo

For this week we are building a stacked bar chart on https://Charts.PowerBI.Tips. While you can build this type of chart within Power BI Desktop this video is more of an example showing how you can build a similar custom visual chart. There are two areas that i’d like to point out.

When working with a chart you can add a Legend to a shape object (2:40)
Adding a grand total requires an additional Glyph (3:14)

While these two tips are pretty simple it really does help you when building more complex custom visuals.

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