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</

PBIGenie Horizontal Bar Chart

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