SSRS line chart not connecting data points

Question

I\'ve looked high and low and can\'t seem to find an answer to what appears to be quite a straightforward issues (I would think).

I have a line chart where there is

Answer 1

Another way to handle this is to do a recursive select (if you have very large data sets don't do this, it kills performance). So you could make your dataset:

SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by Store order by Date desc) as rn
FROM StorePerformance

Now you can have your category group be rn (it should group by rn and sort by rn) but select date for its label. This will still display the date on your x axis, but since you are grouping by rn the data will still be continuous and all of the lines will connect. Also your legend will still match.

I still haven't looked deeply into how much this shifts the data points since we are plotting with row number and displaying date, but if you are mainly concerned with visualizing trends in the lines and aren't as concerned with where they are at a given point in time in relation to one another, it will serve you just fine. Otherwise I would leave the chart the way it is and just read the plot points, which are still valid data.