Aligning left edge of plot areas on multiple chart components

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The chart component plot area adjusts automatically to accommodate the width of the Y-axis label and scale numbers. This means that the timescales don’t line up vertically and it looks a mess

Figure 1. Charts which are all aligned with the black line on the left edge have misaligned plot areas due to the variable width text on the Y-scales.

Does anyone have a workaround for this? I can’t find any in the chart customizer. I know that the EasyChart component doesn’t suffer this problem internally but it’s more cumbersome to set up - particularly with UDT input.

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I feel your pain, had the same issue. I never found a good workaround other than switching to an Easy Chart component, which as you mentioned, isn’t always “easy”. That said, the lineup does work great on the Easy Chart…

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Are you using 3 separate chart components? If so just use one chart component, and 3 sub plots.

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Just use the regular chart with separate datasets. Then set each to a different subplot.

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Has there been any developments on this? I have version 8.1.1 and are having exactly the same issues with reports that have Time/series graphs.Thanks

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Yes. Use sub-plots. They all line up then. At the time of writing I didn’t know they were there.

Your question has prompted me to mark the question as solved (nearly five years later)! Thanks.

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