Create Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart for Power BI

Create Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart for Power BI


This visual is created from advance visual Dual Y-Axis Combo Chart



Steps to create Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart from Dual Y-Axis Combo Chart


Step 1. Map your data in the fields available

Here ‘Country’ is mapped under Category. ‘Gross Sales’, 'Profit' and 'Sales' are mapped under Value 1, Value 2 and Value 3 respectively.

Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart

Step 2. Choose the Series Type

Go to Format Visual tab. Under ‘Value 1’ section Series Type will be Bar. For ‘Value 2’ make Series Type as Line and for ‘Value 3’ make it as Area
e.g. - Here for Gross Sales, we have kept Bar. It is Line for Profit and Area for Sales.

Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart

Step 3. Select the Axis Type

In case you want to show the data in secondary axis you can select Secondary under Y axis.
e.g. - for Value 1 and 3, we have selected Primary for Y axis and for Value 2 Secondary for Y axis.
Please note, values which are bound to Primary X axis will appear behind to the values plotted on Secondary X axis.

Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart

Step 4. Format your visual further

You can further format your visual like color, size, opacity of your series, labels, legend etc under the same tab ‘Format Visual’.

Stacked Line, Area and Column Chart