The other day I was working on some charts for a client which had a static minimum and maximum value set on the vertical axis and ran into a problem with data not being drawn on the chart. It didn’t matter whether it was a LineChart or a ColumnChart or a PlotChart, the data simply would not be drawn because it was out of range of the axis minimum or maximum values.

In the case of a PlotChart it would not matter much, but in the case of a LineChart or ColumnChart it would present a lot of unwanted results ranging from misleading representation of the data to animation problems.

Continue »