showEmpty doesn't work when min and max are defined

[slawekkolodziej]

As in title - when axis min and max are defined, axis doesn't hide. However, it hides when you set just min, or just max. See the demo: http://jsfiddle.net/c92Zn/

[TorsteinHonsi]

Currently, showEmtpy only has an effect when the axis doesn't have
information on the scale at all.

[pawelfus]

Possible workaround: http://jsfiddle.net/bfrHc/4/

[SteveSchreiner]

Are there any plans to fix this? Or maybe suggest a work around? Thanks

[alexcohaniuc]

Can you elaborate please on how this is not a bug?

[TorsteinHonsi]

Empty in this case means that the axis does not have information that defines how it should draw labels. Once you set min and max, it does have that information.

But from your comment I assume that you consider an empty axis an axis that has no populated data series?

[alexcohaniuc]

Hi,
Yes, makes sense now.
Would be very useful to have a showEmptyData or something.

Is that something you might consider adding?
As I've seen a couple of threads having the same issue.

[pawanvjadhav]

+1 are you going to add this configuration?

[TorsteinHonsi]

I am a bit concerned about creating new issues, but I did a small refactoring that makes this accessible from the outside, so we can now override the Axis.prototype.hasData method like this:

Highcharts.Axis.prototype.hasData = function () {
    return this.hasVisibleSeries;
};

View it live on jsFiddle

[hon2a]

I'd also appreciate a second flag showWithoutSeries to act as a stronger version of showEmpty. In our current project, we need to set min and max in almost all cases (to keep the plot area in sync between multiple charts), but showing axes without series makes no sense in our case. It's especially unhelpful in multi-axis charts where hiding a series could greatly increase the ammount of space available for plot area if the axis belonging to that series was hidden as well.

@TorsteinHonsi Thanks for the work-around though, that's sufficient for us as we don't have any use for the current version of showEmpty.

[KacperMadej]

In case you want to show no-data message with custom conditions then no-data-to-display module supports showing message about lack of data on function call as presented in a demo from API reference:
https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/noData

Closing this issue as this is not a bug.