Hi, I want to be able to show date gaps when using the Box Plot visual. I have date on the x axis, but its not possible to see date gaps, they are simply missed out, and the date that follows is the next date with data. The visual Vertical Stacked Bar Chart does have this check box option in the visual properties.
I have tried a workaround, involving applying a minimal value of 0.01 to a gap date. But this is not a solution, as its effecting other visuals I have too.
The best solution that I can envisage is to add the same check box “show date gaps” to the Box Plot visual. How can I request this feature ?
Hi @jonathan.j.moore and welcome to the Quick Community!
The other workaround I can think of is creating a separate calculated field just for your box plot visual that essentially applies a filler value to try and account for the date gaps.
You are correct in your observation that other visual types such as line charts and bar charts do have the ‘show date gaps’ feature. What I can do is attach the ‘feature-request’ tag to this post and that can help increase visibility to the Quick team.
Thank you for the tag suggestion. At first I couldn’t see a way to add tags, but then I hit the edit button of the original post, and I could add the ‘feature-request’ tag. I hope it gets noticed.
I played further with a calculated field, but in the end we decided against making workarounds. Its important that we do display gaps, but its more important for us not to go down the path of adding extra workarounds. It adds risk, even when documented, that it ends up causing trouble when latter adding functionality or making changes. So we’re going to live with it for now, with the hope that this feature request gets implemented. Maybe there is heavy re-use from existing visuals that already have this feature. We’ll see. I’ll keep checking back here, and later release notes too. Thanks.