I am trying to apply an indicator arrow that feeds from a variance Percentage as per screenshot. The only options available within the indicator require me to set a start and end, however. The column that I wish to reference merely shows % change. This can be positive 0.9% for example or negative -2.3%. When working with the percentage change in this way how do you apply a start and end? Ideally, I would like simply to say green up arrow if >0 or red down arrow if less than 0. (right pointing orange arrow if 0 to show no change). Have been google(ing) for a couple of hours now and cannot find a working solution.
The arrows do not work as all currently show Green and up.
This looks like it will solve your issue:
MSDN
It basically doesn't use the values but has an expression for the colour instead.
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How can I programmatically ascertain the html color hex codes for colors in a single spectral line? I'm definitely using the wrong terminology I'm just not sure how else to phrase it. This picture should bring clarity:
Notice how the cursor in the top rectangle is always in the same position. It's simply the cursor in the first bar that moves into different color segments, thus generating the hex codes visible below.
Is it possible to generate these programmatically?
it would take 3 steps to get there programatically:
choose the base color (for each of your screen shots its the right top corner)
then lighten it to the the right amount (the X axis of your squares)
then darken it to the right amount (the Y axis of your squares)
if your'e using precompiled css like SASS it would look like that:
$someColor: red;
$lighten: brighten($someColor,20%);
$darkenedColor : darken($lighten, 32%);
$darkenedColor will get you the point that you are looking for, it will work for any given $someColor
In Spotfire:
Is it possible to show target value reference line for each bar in a bar chart.
A way around that i am doing now is using combination chart. Refer screenshot.
The problem here is that now i can not define a color by property to color bars using rules.
I don't believe you can do it automatically without scripting but here is an example of how to do it by hand.
Right click on your bar chart and go to the Lines & Curves section:
Here you can see I've added 4 lines based on percentage of the data.
You can do this or add lines of set values using the Add button in the top right and selecting Horizontal Line.
Notice I've added the line name as the description of the percentage it is, hovering over will show an actual value so it may better to do this if it isn't clear what the value represents.
This is what it produces:
To make it better match your question I've added 2 more employees and coloured by employee instead, I've also set fixed targets for each person rather than percentages and renamed them to make sure it is clear which line applies to which person in case the colour isn't enough.
Using the Settings -> Appearance section back in the first picture change the colour of the lines to match the fields they represent.
Like I said at the start you should be able to create a script to do this for you but that is another question.
I have created a bar chart that shows values on data labels.
The Data label is placed outside the bar
But in some cases the label appears on the bar where the bar is too long.
In this scenario I would like to conditionally change the font/colour of the data label so that it's more visible.
However I can't see a way to dynamically determine where the label has been placed.
What I can think of is this. You can change the background/font color of all those series labels who's value lies in the range of 95%-100% of the maximum "Value". To be exactly precise as to what should be the threshold to change the bg/font color seems a daunting task, but you could play around with test data.
For writing the expression to change the font color,I would first change the dataset and add a column on the lines of PercOfMax. This column can be calculated easily in the dataset by using basic aggregate functions.
Then you need to go to the Chart Series Label properties-->Color and write the expression on the lines of -
=IIF(Fields!PercOfMax.Value>=95, "YELLOW", "BLACK")
As I said, you might need to do some more research to finalize the value of this threshold(which I am assuming to be 95).
Another solution to this problem is to use fill colour of the label and set its background to a bright colour (e.g. colour), and leave the font colour of the label black. Thus you can always see the label, and there is no difference when it's outside of the bar.
In this screen shot from an SSRS report with bar charts, I would like for 0 values to display a tiny bit of color rather than just being blank. Here's what it looks like now:
Most of these charts have many series. I am generating a copy of the charts for each person under review and including the comparison values for everyone else in the group. I am thus coloring the bar representing the person under review differently from the normal color so they can easily see their performance compared to others.
Now, while there are y-axis labels, I would also like the 0 value to have at least a tiny sliver of color so everything is symmetric and the color can be seen. (I am also thinking about putting those with no data at all in the chart and need a way to distinguish those, so any ideas on how to accomplish that would help as well.)
I thought about making the axis start at -1 so the space from -1 to 0 would be colored, but I can't figure out how to get the labels to start at 0 (as shown) when I do this. I have played with quite a few settings and nothing is coming out right...
Sigh. I just figured it out.
Select the X axis.
Set CrossAt and Minimum properties to -1.
Set the IntervalOffset property to 1.
Important note: the chart in Design mode will NOT show correctly. Since I put an Interval of 20, it is showing -1 19 39 59 79 99, but when I actually Preview the report, the result is correct. Don't let yourself be thrown off by the design-mode pre-preview.
Now it looks like this:
If you leave out the CrossAt property, then the bars float away from the y-axis, leaving a gap. You must use all the properties I mentioned above to make the color reach past 0 all the way to the axis line.
I have a column graph, that shows a trend of consumption over time,
The y-axis being consumption and x-axis being time in month,
I have to implement a target consumption.
I implemented a target, by adding data field with a Line chart type, this is a constant, and will just display a horizontal line.
The problem i am facing is, if there is only one month, the line disappears? is there a way not to have it disappear, or is there a better way to add line target in column charts in SSRS
I am using SSRS 2008
Adding a StripLine may do what you want. They are a little hard to find, but here is how:
1) Make sure that the properties window is open beforehand. If it isn't, either hit F4 or go to the View Menu -> Properties Window.
2) Left click on your vertical axis to select it.
3) Select the StripLines entry in the Properties Window and click the ellipsis:
4) Click Add
5) Starting off, the stripline is invisible, so it can be a bit hard to adjust. :). To make it visible as a thin line, set BorderStyle to "Solid". Adjust the color with BorderColor and width with BorderWidth (not StripWidth). While positioning the line, I like to set the color to something obnoxious and make it wide to make it easier to spot.
5) To position it, you want to set the IntervalOffsetType to match the type of your interval you have set on the vertical axis. Then IntervalOffset to the y-value of where you want your target line to appear. Since you only want 1 line to appear and not repeat, you must keep Interval set to auto.
6) Once you get it positioned, make final adjustments to the appearance.
I had a hard time finding it for my Databar. I stumbled onto this...
Make sure Properties toolbar is visible
Click the Databar to highlight
Find ChartAreas in properties toolbar, click to open ChartAreas dialog
Find ValueAxes in ChartAreas dialog, click to open ChartAxis dialog
Find StripLines in ChartAxis dialog, click to open ChartStripLine dialog
I was playing around a little earlier, and i noticed that i can change the interval for the major and minor gridlines, AND change the format for the lines. I had the bright idea of making the minor lines look like the major ones i had and format the major lines to look like a target line. I don't know if this'll work for you buy you could try it.