With a Bar Chart, the more Categories there are, the thinner each individual bar is. Is there any way to keep them consistent, and simply extend the height of the overall Bar Chart graph?
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Hi Danny - curious as to what the actual problem is you're solving? How many Categories are you talking about? And what is the actual problem with having them thinner? Like any chart it makes most sense to see it all in one go (after all, you're most likely visually comparing the various items on the chart) and if some disappear off the screen then this waters down its effectiveness.
I simply want them to be the same size and to know if this is possible. If not I will do something else but I am not interested in whether or not this is a good thing to do, just whether it is feasible or not.
AFAIK, no, this is not possible (there are no attributes on this component that would indicate otherwise)
The bar chart will extend if there are more than 20 items (so that is the smallest bar width). For example, here's 10 items, 20 items, and 40 items. You can see that 10 and 20 are the same height, while 40 is twice as high.
Thank you this is helpful. However I wanted to know whether I could fix the width of each blue bar so that even if there are more bars, they don't get thinner. Additionally, is there any way to tell the bar chart to extend before having more than 20 bars? Could I change that 20 to 5, say?
No, unfortunately bar widths themselves cannot be set; they are dependent on how many categories are defined.