Introduction
The Bump Chart by ChartPad is a custom Power BI visual for reading position rather than magnitude. It ranks your series at every point in time and draws one line per series through those ranks, so the story you get is a race: who leads, who overtakes whom, who slides down the table, and when it happened.
Getting started
This page takes you from an empty report to a working bump chart. No prior experience with custom visuals is required.
Data fields
The Bump Chart is driven entirely by the fields you drag into its wells. This page covers every field — what it does, whether it's required, how many columns it accepts — and, just as importantly, exactly how your data is read.
Ranking & Top N
Ranking is what the Bump Chart does for you. You bind a raw measure; the visual turns it into a position at every period, and draws the lines between those positions. This page explains exactly how that happens, and how to keep the chart readable when you have more series than a chart can hold.
Lines, markers & labels
Three Format cards control the race itself: the Lines that connect the ranks, the Data Points that mark them, and the Data Labels that name each series at the ends of its line.
Legend, axis & colours
Everything outside the plot area: who is who (Legend and Data Colors) and when is when (X-Axis).
Interactivity & cross-filtering
The Bump Chart is a first-class Power BI citizen: clicking a line filters the rest of the page, the legend filters by series, right-click opens Power BI's own menu, and everything is reachable from the keyboard.
Use cases
Worked examples of the shapes the Bump Chart is built for — the data behind each one, the fields to bind, and the settings worth changing. Each is a starting point, not a rule.
Formatting reference
Every setting in the Bump Chart's Format pane (the paint-roller icon), card by card, with its range and default. For task-based walkthroughs, follow the links at the end of each section.
Troubleshooting & FAQ
Symptoms first, then the fix. If your problem isn't here, get in touch.
Licensing & support
How licensing works
Changelog
A summary of the main releases of the ChartPad Bump Chart, with new features and bug fixes for each version. The most recent release is listed first.