# How to add space between category bars - XY Chart

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**Created:** [June 18, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-space-between-category-bars-xy-chart/47966 "2021-06-18T19:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicholas.robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nicholas.robinson/32/22188_2.png) [@nicholas.robinson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nicholas.robinson)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-space-between-category-bars-xy-chart/47966/1 "2021-06-18T19:07:47Z")

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What is the method to add space between category bars in the perspective XY chart?

When I render as a column I see there is a break property on the x axis but I cannot figure out what text should be put in there for start and end category.

Each category (site) has 3 bars, I just want to put space between them so it is clearer to see.

It would be nice if this happened by default.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/7/5795171eddfcf693cb369830e586c47ac7415da5.png)

Thanks,

Nick

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**Author:** ![nicholas.robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nicholas.robinson/32/22188_2.png) [@nicholas.robinson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nicholas.robinson)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-add-space-between-category-bars-xy-chart/47966/2 "2021-06-19T02:54:55Z")

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I fixed this by adding blanks in the list comprehension from the source dataset tag and then adding 2 additional series one before and one after the actual 3 columns I want with their labels hidden from the legend.

Not sure if this is the best way to do it but it works.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/a/4a32feb96272e2674d19b60c43698a122198ca81.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/1/a15d1bad3558379f44e40ce62bfa91a590771cd7.png)

Cheers,

Nick