Boxplot Category Cutoff Issues

[lswainemoore]

Hi--I've got a boxplot I want to show all options of a category array on, regardless of whether data is present. For the purposes of demonstration, let's consider the categories to be days of the week, and it's important that the user be able to see if a day of the week is missing data.

I can use category array to get missing boxes that fall in the middle of the data to appear, but entries at the start / end won't show up:

I can specify a manual range (in terms of the indexes per docs), but then the boxes get cut off awkwardly (same thing would happen on the right if Sunday was present):

This gets even worse when there are multiple traces (in this case a full box from one trace is cut off):

The only way I see to resolve this is to use negative indexes (or extra indexes if the issue is on the right side), but that doesn't seem very future proof (since it bucks the docs), and sits a bit awkwardly.

Is there a better way to do this?

Here's a codepen reproducing the graphs I used here: https://codepen.io/lswainemoore/pen/yyLOdbo.

Thanks for any help!

[gvwilson]

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[lswainemoore]

@gvwilson sorry for the delay in following up here, but I really don't think this is a "how-to", though I suppose I was couching it that way. It seems like a bug that with these box plots, objects get cut off by the axes (in particularly in the example where a full box is missing). If it's out of scope, I understand, but want to make sure it's flagged.

[gvwilson]

thanks @lswainemoore - reopening