Hello I have a visualization for which I use Vertical Stacked bar chart. Currently when I add data labels they come inside the bar, but I want to position them outside the bar. Is there any way to do it. Thanks in advance.

Hi @naveedsayed , @ErikG , We have option to customize the label positioning for vertical bar charts. (Read on for workaround on Vertical stacked bar chart) [image] I agree with Erik’s view that it can be confusing to show the label above the bar for Vertical stacked bar charts. It wouldn’t be t…

Hi @naveedsayed what do you mean with “outside the bar”? BR

Hi @ErikG Yes I want the data labels to be positioned outside the bar

Outside = left or right? [grafik] Wouldn’t that be a little too close to the bars? But right now its not possible anyway.

No not left or right but rather top of each bar So something like [Screenshot 2024-02-16 at 10.06.31 PM] Thank you for your quick response. Is there any way to request this to be added in quicksight ?

mh ok. But this is quite misleading if the values are displayed in the part above.

I have seen those kind of labeling in reports and looked better in few cases. So wanted to try in my report and found no option of positioning the labels.

Data Label Postion in Vertical Stacked bar Chart

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naveedsayed February 16, 2024, 9:07am 5

No not left or right but rather top of each bar

So something like

Thank you for your quick response.

Is there any way to request this to be added in quicksight ?

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Data Label Postion in Vertical Stacked bar Chart

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