# Not stacked Time Series Bar Chart vs XY Bar Chart

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-stacked-time-series-bar-chart-vs-xy-bar-chart/103946>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 20, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-stacked-time-series-bar-chart-vs-xy-bar-chart/103946 "2025-03-20T13:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![E.E.T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@E.E.T](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/E.E.T)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-stacked-time-series-bar-chart-vs-xy-bar-chart/103946/1 "2025-03-20T13:15:20Z")

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I'm currently working with charts and I need to customize my time series chart in order to show 5 bars for each timestamp side by side like it's possible in the xy chart below:

 ![Screenshot 2025-03-20 140337](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/0/e073ca381636da822ee6c8fc9ebf4e2da4694f46.png)  
However disabling the stacked option in the Time Series chart only makes them overlap each other:  
 ![Screenshot 2025-03-20 140307](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/5/1529635e61c9920d1fe630471354a4f8093ac934.png)  
Is there no way to be able to replicate the xy chart? I need to show the energy consumed daily by 5 machines side by side in real time and I need to be able to use the ChartRangeSelector and I'm not sure I could while using the xy chart.  
Perspective-savy colleagues please help me, any advice is really welcomed.  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-stacked-time-series-bar-chart-vs-xy-bar-chart/103946/2 "2025-03-20T14:24:47Z")

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What you are trying to do is make the x-axis into a category rendering.

You can't. It deliberately is not an option as it doesn't make sense to have categories on a time axis.

> ... show the energy consumed daily ... side by side in real time ...

I think you're showing history, not real time.

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**Author:** ![E.E.T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@E.E.T](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/E.E.T)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-stacked-time-series-bar-chart-vs-xy-bar-chart/103946/3 "2025-03-20T14:34:14Z")

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> Blockquote What you are trying to do is make the x-axis into a category rendering.

Yes but it would be grouped by the same timestamp so I thought it wouldn't be so absurd, I don't know maybe it is.

> Blockquote I think you're showing history, not real time.

Yes I'm sorry I meant history but updated in real time