Add to Line Chart ability to select x-axis other than date field, or add a new Line Chart that is not time series

[eugeniamz]

At the moment, Line chart is a time series chart and X-Axis always is the date in the time section

It would be a great addition to have Line Chart that allows X-axis to be any filed so can be used to compare trends despite without link with dates.

Use case at the moment, I want to compare different customers' growth by the month of Customer Acquisition date but all of them have a different start dates.

For example this dataset :

This is the best chart that I can do with the Line Chart

If I create a metric as the: datediff('month', start_date,sales_date) I would like to be able to do a chart like this.

It is possible with Bars but it is harder to see trends and do comparison with the bars, in addition, bars get even more confused when the field to breakdown has many distinct values

[issue-label-bot]

Issue-Label Bot is automatically applying the label #enhancement to this issue, with a confidence of 0.97. Please mark this comment with 👍 or 👎 to give our bot feedback!

Links: app homepage, dashboard and code for this bot.

[bkyryliuk]

dropboxers are requesting a similar feature

[junlincc]

will implement numeric and categorical line chart with new echarts soon

[eugeniamz]

@junlincc any ETD?

[amitmiran137]

this chart is support the above and more
https://5fec4c81935a8c002151e85f-nfsmejbgts.chromatic.com/?path=/story/plugins-composed-chart--all-types
https://github.com/nielsen-oss/superset-viz-plugins/

[x670]

will implement numeric and categorical line chart with new echarts soon

how soon?

[stephanclaus]

Hi, this feature would be very much appreciated.

[villebro]

@x670 @stephanclaus this is being worked on right now (some recent development linked to this old issue: #822)

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions. For admin, please label this issue .pinned to prevent stale bot from closing the issue.

[ValentinC-BR]

@x670 @stephanclaus this is being worked on right now (some recent development linked to this old issue: #822)

Hello,
How far are we from getting this new feature ?
Numerical abscisses would be really appreciated on our side too.

Is there any workaround ?

[villebro]

@ValentinC-BR , this is already fairly stable on master branch. Just enable the GENERIC_CHART_AXES feature flag.

[ValentinC-BR]

Didn't see that, thanks !

Since when (which version) is this feature available ? I have some troubles finding it, and we're still in 1.5 in our company.

[villebro]

I't not really ready on 1.5, so I do recommend waiting until the forthcoming 2.1 release (release date still unknown). But if you want to take a sneek peak and do some early testing, please try out master branch locally with the relevant feature flag enabled.

[ValentinC-BR]

Got it, thanks.

We'll wait for the 2.1 then.

[rusackas]

2.0.1 would be a good release for those looking to upgrade. Meanwhile, since this feature is out there in the wild, I'll go ahead and close the issue for now. Bugs and whatnot can be taken up in new threads! Thanks!

[Anandappak]

Line chart x-axes label without time: how to create?