Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference

Line and Area charts

The Line chart is the most basic of our options when it comes to looking at data over time. The Area chart and Stacked Area chart are based on the line chart; the difference is that the area between the axis and the line is filled in with colors to show volume. Because of this, we will focus on the Line chart for our example. Since we have a very nice Date hierarchy, we will use this alongside a couple of measures to see trending. 

Let's look at, setting up the visual:

1. Select the Line chart visual and move it to take up a quarter of the report canvas.
2. The axis is where we dictate our time category and, for this example, we will use the built-in Date hierarchy by selecting the Date field from the Date(Order) table.