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Moving the Center Line of a Bar Chart with a Gantt Chart

There are cases where we have bar charts whose centerline is not zero, for example when we’ve indexed a measure to have a base of 100. Here’s an example where the SUM(Sales) for each product Category is indexed to the average sales per Category:

What happens when we want the bars to start at 100 and then go up or down from there, like this?

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