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Where is the "Visible" property for Data Labels on an SSRS Stacked Area chart

In an old WordPress posting I found the property dialog image at the bottom of this post (labeled "Properties"). It was displayed for a vertical bar chart (single series).

It includes property Visible under Labels.

But in the present day (in an up-to-date version of ReportBuilder with no "About" information), in a Stacked Area chart, the Series Properties dialog appears as shown immediately below. There are many fewer properties, no "Labels" section and no "Visible" property for labels.

I can choose "Show Data Labels" and there are label properties, but again no "Visible" property.

Is a Visible property exposed "somewhere else" for a Stacked Area chart?

I'm not sure whether I should think of this more as a limitation by SSRS chart type, or more a stripping out of features in later versions of SSRS Report Builder.

I started down the path of putting an expression on more than one of the label properties to try and achieve an effect similar to "Visible", but I decided to post here before going to those lengths.

Input from somebody with SSRS insights much appreciated.

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Solution

  • The first image you posted is the properties dialog box. This typically shows common properties with a nice UI.

    The second image you posted is the properties panel which shows all properties of the selected object.

    Taken from Report Builder MS Documentation :

    To see the Properties pane, on the View tab, in the Show/Hide group, click Properties.

    You might also find that the 'Visible' property is actually called Hidden for some objects, just to confuse things further !