PBIGenie Horizontal Bar Chart
by PBI Genie
No DAX. Axis Flip, bar-on-bar, lollipops, hammerheads, rounded caps & DAX-driven colors in 1 visual.
No DAX required. DAX welcomed.
PBIGenie Horizontal Bar Chart (HBC) Visual Platform helps Power BI creators build polished, presentation-ready bar visuals with deep formatting control — without writing custom DAX.
Start with a simple dataset using a Value measure and optional Overlap measure, then design your chart directly from the Power BI Format pane. For advanced creators, PBIGenie now also supports optional DAX-driven colour buckets and extra tooltip fields, giving teams even more control over business rules, variance reporting, and executive storytelling.
With Axis Flip, PBIGenie lets report creators switch between horizontal bar chart (HBC) and vertical bar chart (VBC) layouts from the same visual — ideal for flexible reporting, executive dashboards, and presentation-ready comparison charts.
PBIGenie HBC is part of the growing PBIGenie Visual Platform — a suite of creator-focused visuals designed for modern Power BI reporting.
Key Features
Design & styling
- Axis Flip: switch between horizontal bar chart (HBC) and vertical bar chart (VBC) layouts
- Bar-on-bar overlays for actual vs budget, target comparisons, variances, and performance reporting
- Modern styles: lollipop, hammerhead, outline/empty styles, line styles, and rounded caps
- Manual legend with custom labels and colours
- Basic grid lines with style, colour, weight, and line-count controls
- Full colour control for value bars, overlap bars, outlines, markers, labels, and legend items
DAX-driven control
- Value Bar Colour bucket: use optional DAX measures or fields to dynamically colour value bars
- Overlap / Marker Colour bucket: use optional DAX measures or fields to dynamically colour overlap bars, lollipop markers, and hammerhead markers
- Great for status rules, variance logic, target performance, positive/negative outcomes, and business-defined colour logic
- Set the rule once in your model and let the visual respond as the data changes
- No DAX required for standard use — DAX welcomed for advanced users
Tooltips & readability
- Tooltip / Extra Tooltips bucket: add extra report fields or measures to PBIGenie tooltips
- Clean, presentation-ready labeling options for categories, values, and overlap labels
- Improved label handling for positive, negative, horizontal, and vertical chart layouts
- Display units, decimals, and formatting options for compact executive reporting
Layout flexibility
- Switch between HBC and VBC layouts with a single Axis Flip setting
- Axis direction switch for left/right positioning
- Fine control over spacing, bar height or width, overlap thickness, and dense or minimal layouts
- Works well across compact report tiles, wide dashboard visuals, and presentation pages
Enterprise-ready & accessibility
- Keyboard accessibility, including Shift + F10 context menu support
- High contrast support for Accessibility View
- Localization-ready resources for multi-language deployments
- Built for Microsoft AppSource certification requirements
Performance & reliability
- Lightweight rendering engine optimised for business dashboards and report pages
- Built to meet Microsoft certification and enterprise compliance requirements
- Basic mode continues to render even after the trial ends — no broken reports
- Premium features are unlocked through Microsoft Marketplace licensing
Perfect for
- Finance & FP&A teams
- Project controls & PMO reporting
- Operational dashboards
- Executive & board-level presentations
- Consultants, agencies, and Power BI developers
- Power BI creators who want more visual control without rebuilding charts from scratch
Whether you’re building executive dashboards, project controls, operational reporting, or financial variance visuals — PBIGenie HBC adapts to your layout, formatting, and storytelling style.
Licensing
- Free: The visual remains fully usable in Basic mode.
- Premium: Unlock Axis Flip, advanced formatting, premium styles, DAX-driven colour buckets, extra tooltip fields, and full customization.
- Trial: Start a one-month free trial by subscription through Microsoft Marketplace (AppSource) to explore all Premium features.
Roadmap & support
- Actively developed with continuous updates and a transparent roadmap
- Documentation, examples, and responsive support to help teams adopt the visual quickly</