how to show column chart labels on x-axis 1st is down while 2nd is up?
You cannot choose to display your labels in this manner. This is a result of the automatic formatting that SSRS does to render your chart. All you can do is to try and set the font size large enough to ensure that there is just too little space in your chart width to display all your labels, in which case the report may format your labels like this.
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I have 4 charts created in SSRS 2017 and I need them to be the same size.
Are there any settings (and where? in SSRS) to make size all the same for all of my 4 charts?
When I go into Chart Area properties, there is nothing about the chart size...
Please help!
Update:
When I clicking on the Chart Area slightly outside the actual chart I see the following Chart Properties:
You can control the position of the chart area and the plot position of the pie within the area by setting the CustomPosition and CustomInnerPlotPosition properties. Select the chart area first to see these properties.
Please note: You must select the CHART AREA object in the designer not the chart Just click slightly outside the pie to select the correct area then you will see these properties.
You can do the same for the legend too if required so you can get full control over the final rendered size.
It does take a bit of trial and error to get a layout that suits all your needs but it can be done.
You cant directly influence the size of the chart, like Hannover Fist said it depends on multiple conditions (for example the legend). What you can do is to put the legend on top or on bottom of the chart (the reason for the different sizes of your charts it that the legend text from right to left is different, thus it uses the space from the visual). This way the size of the chart should be more or less the same size. Right click on your legend Legend properties > General > Legend position. With the MaxAutoSize property from the legend you can a little bit control the size of your legend.
To your second question. No, a chart (also tablix and matrix) can only have one Dataset as source. You can see this in the chart properties at the drop down list. You just can chose one element. But you can create one big dataset with all the data for the different charts. Then assign this dataset to one chart and copy it. And then you set different filters to the charts.
For me the above didn't help. The varying sizes of pie charts related to the fact that some had been set to have their series value > label > position = outside and others were position = auto. All pie charts had their labels hidden so you coudln't see them at all but SSRS was allowing space for them when set to position = outside. This made it extremely frustrating to chase down where the difference in size was coming from. Hope this may help someone who comes across a similar issue.
I have built a "gantt" style range chart in SSRS using Narayana Palla's model. I am using date parameters to view the data by a date range - my dataset is museum exhibitions over a number of years. I have opted to use the DrawSideBySide = false custom attribute to display series data but I can not position the series labels as I want. I want them to align left however they align right and overlap with each other. I have tried many different combinations of properties including the smartlabel properties but can not impact on the position of the labels in the series. I have not been able to find a solution in my searching.
I would be happy to have my series displayed using DrawSideBySide = true but the bars are so narrow that neither they nor their labels can be seen. Again I have tried many combinations of properties to set the width of the bars but to no avail. I believe this is due to the number or series in the whole of my chart / dataset.
I would like advice on :
1. How to adjust the position of the labels in the series OR
2. How to fix the width of the series bars so that I can see them on my chart OR
3. If I am right about the size of the data set making the bars miniscule how can I best resolve this - say group on year so that only a limited (and therefore hopefully wide) set of series bars appear at a time from page to page.
Very grateful for any assistance, Sally
In SSRS, for the label overlapping issues, the only way is manually changing the chart area size to make enough space for those labels. Otherwise we have change an appropriate chart type.
I have a chart in SSRS with horizontal and vertical axis. The chart is as shown in the figure below. I need to add some calculated labels (marked with black) on top of the chart (example is from Excel). How can this be done in SSRS charts?
Labels and smart labels won't work in this case because of the series. It will show values for each group (ex: red, blue, yellow). I just want it once in the totals.
In a nutshell:
Create a second dataset that fetches the values you want for the Data Labels
Select the Series in the Chart and in the Properties pane going to Labels, then set UseValueAsLabel = False
Set the "Label" property to be a LookUp() that fetched the appropriate value from my second dataset
Use the "Visible" property to hide the labels for the other series so that they no longer show.
You can then change the label position to force them at the top of the columns
I found that the best way is to create a new chart (ex: Line Chart)
with value 0.
Then select Secondary Axis for the Horizontal Axis.
Set the Data Point --> Axis Label to whatever you want.
I'm using Report Builder 3.0 and trying to figure out if i can break out one datafield with the few values I need for my bar chart. The data looks like this;
[[44278,47411],[{"name":"$41,000/year goal","y":41000}],["",""]]
I want bar 1 to be the 44,278 value, bar 2 to be the 47,411 value and the 41000 to be embedded as a goal. I've attached a screenshot of how we have it working with other grid and charting products, but this is going to be embedded in a much more in-depth SSRS report. Any sort of help would be great as i'm new to the whole SSRS reporting system.
You can do this with a custom StripLine:
Right-click the vertical chart axis and click Vertical Axis Properties.
The axis properties are displayed in the Properties window.
In the Appearance section of the Properties pane, for the StripLines property, click the Edit Collection (…) button to open the ChartStripLine Collection Editor.
Click Add to add a new strip line to the collection.
Click StripWidth to specify the width of the strip line. If your goals will fluctuate, you might want to make it relative to your Goal e.g. =Fields!YourGoalField.Value/100
Set the StripWidthType property to Number.
Set the InvervalOffset value to =Fields!YourGoalField.Value.
Set the IntervalOffsetType value to Number.
More on StripeLines: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239316.aspx
EDIT To get the Goal Label outside the Chart Area as depicted, we have to do a sort of hack:
Delete the StripLine Title as there is no way to get that outside the Chart Area.
Right Click the Chart and select Add New Title.
On your new Chart Title's Properties Pane
Set the Docking Position to Right Center.
Set the TextOrientation to Horizontal.
Adjust the Font style and color to match your spec.
Set the Caption Expression to =Format(Fields!YourGoal.Value,"$0,000") & "/year goal"
Here is where the hack comes in. In order to get the Goal label to line up with the Goal Line, you need to add a certain number of carriage return/line feeds to your Caption Expression. To do this, append & vbcrlf to the Caption Expression a bunch of times and keep testing until it lines up. You might also want to adjust the DockingOffset property to move the Label closer to the Chart Area.
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.