Column and Line Combo Chart on Pivoted Data

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Is there a way to format this so the lines "stick" to their column?

Left Y-axis = a metric I am tracking 

Right Y-axis = that metric as a % of some individualized target

X-axis = date dimension

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The three violet columns represent different items I am tracking. I am comparing them against each other every day.

I also want to visualize how each day compares to a specific target for each item. For this I calculated the % and am displaying it as a line. However the lines stack on-top of eachother instead of aligning with their respective columns.

[Black line > Dark violet] [Orange line > Medium violet] [Red line > Light violet]

Note, there are multiple items that can be picked in this dashboard so I need it to dynamically update and not break when a new item is picked.

I am open to displaying this information in a different way such as: https://www.highcharts.com/demo/highcharts/column-placement but haven't been able to make this work yet either. 

The data structure is pivoted by item as sketched below.

Data structure.jpg

I appreciate any thoughts or advice!

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It's difficult to help with something like this without having it in front of you to play with, so my apologies that I can't give you direct help on this - but I am wondering if you have tried getting the result you want using a combination of Looker's Chart Config Editor and the LLM of your choice? 

There's also an article here that details using AI to create an entirely custom visualization.

Thank you for your reply @GavinW. I've experimented with the Chart Config & Highcharts own LLM & others to no avail. Even the pointPlacement doesn't seem to work in this instance. It may just be a lack of capability of the software!

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