Add Option to Change the Y-axis origin on graphs (+2 Merged Votes)

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  • geozeke
    geozeke Member ✭
    Is this issue (behavior) tied to the Comparison Plot feature? If you right-click on Y-axis of the Bills and Income graph, you can Hide/Show the Comparison Plot button. The button will be on the left, near the top of the graph. If I turn on Comparison Plot, I see a second graph (in blue) with a large spike which, I guess, is meant to be a future projection of may historical balances? Can anyone explain what the Comparison Graph actually does?
  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    geozeke said:
    Is this issue (behavior) tied to the Comparison Plot feature? If you right-click on Y-axis of the Bills and Income graph, you can Hide/Show the Comparison Plot button. The button will be on the left, near the top of the graph. If I turn on Comparison Plot, I see a second graph (in blue) with a large spike which, I guess, is meant to be a future projection of may historical balances? Can anyone explain what the Comparison Graph actually does?
    Where exactly is the Bills and Income graph that you are right clicking on? It does not seem to be the Projected Balances graph on the Bills and Income tab. If you go to Help > About Quicken, what Edition and version are you running?

    It sounds like you have found an experimental feature.
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  • geozeke
    geozeke Member ✭
    Sorry about that. I know this issue is listed in the Windows category, but I'm using Quicken Deluxe for Mac (Version 6.7.0 Build 607.44072.100). It seemed like the issue in this thread was common to both platforms. Not sure if the Comparison Plot feature is in the Windows version.
  • Ducksoup_SD
    Ducksoup_SD Member ✭✭✭
    The graphs are only a handful of pixels tall, so Quicken compresses the data to see the overall data in the graph.  However, it's not a meaningful display if you're looking for small trends. Think of how temperatures are displayed on television - if they showed the entire graph value, the week's temperatures would look flat. By choosing the baseline as the week's lowest temperature, you can easily see if the week will cool down or heat up as it progresses. You could have an option to baseline the graph to the interval's lowest value (or maybe lowest value+5%?) and then the small trends would be visually obvious.
  • Ducksoup_SD
    Ducksoup_SD Member ✭✭✭
    Here is an example. I created a Baseline account with $1 million and a checking account. The usual Net Worth graph looks like not much is happening, but after I eliminated the Baseline account from the graph, it's obvious that my checking is increasing by $10,000 a month. If my total Net Worth were moving in steps as large as the 2nd graph, I probably wouldn't need a graph to realize it.


  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please see and vote for this existing Idea post
    https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20229330
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