Reporting services: why is there all this blank space at the start of my chart?

Question

I'm developing a RDLC report using Reporting Services, and I have a column chart that looks like this in the editor:

As you can see, there is a lot of blank space on the left of the chart. And in fact, when rendered the chart looks like this on a PDF page:

How to I reduce that left padding? I don't see any relevant options anywhere, not in the chart area nor in the axis properties, there's no option to set a width for the various elements of the chart. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Its hard to tell without some sample data to reproduce but I would try setting the vertical axis min and max values to fixed values (0 and 1 or 0 and 100 depending on the type of value), also try setting the x-axis labels to be vertical to see if that has an influence.

Finally you can check the 'CustomPosition` and CustomInnerPlotPosition properties of the Chart Area object (not the parent chart object)

Answer 2

The Side Margin property on the Horizontal Axis property page controls the padding of the chart. Right-click on the axis and click on Properties on the drop down menu to get to the Axis properties.

When the Side Margin property is changed to Disabled, the bars will move to the left side.