I have a year-on-year line chart as shown below.
Y-axis is a category axis (month number), not scalar - otherwise I cannot build year-on-year chart. I need a strip line run through specific month. As far as I understand, strip lines are only possible for scalar (number/date) axis.
Questions:
- Is it possible to add strip line to existing chart?
- If not, how to build year-on-year chart with scalar horizontal axis?
Find the solution - not obvious, though.
Strip line itself still does not appear, but I used it's background colour instead.
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I am trying to plot a static value of 3% horizontally in a line chart using StripLines property. I could see the strip line showing in the report designer but it doesn't show me when I preview the report.
Below are my strip line property settings -
The final result does not give me the stripline at the desired location in the graph -
Am I missing any property setting here? Any help would be highly appreciated.
I've got a chart in SSRS where I have both line and column values.
Is there any way the line can extend out to the extreme left and right of the corresponding column for the month?
The Green line is the target and the orange columns are the Utilisation figures for the months
I've tried Strip Lines but creating the IIF expressions to capture the filtering is too much pain and you can't get varying results by Month.
You could try to stick your line on the secondary X axis and then play with the settings of that axis. Once you get the settings like you want them you can hide the secondary X axis from the chart area.
I have created a line chart which has the date as X-axis and Y-axis as calculated median value and its grouped according to "FileName". Problem is that some of the "FileName" has same median values which makes line overlap thus not able to see all the lines. Attached image shows only 5 lines but there are total 10 lines. After running query I found out other 5 has 50 as the median which makes it overlap with one of the line.
I tried using transparency and secondary axis but wasn't able to achieve the desired result. Is there any other solution to try out ? Thanks!
This is more of a data presentation issue than something specific to SSRS. If you are stuck on using a line chart, then I've only used two options:
1) Increment lines to different widths. For example, in a chart with 3 lines, the width is set to 5,3,1 pts.
2) Change the values insignificantly to offset the lines. Obviously this depends on the data being visualized as shifting the line slight (multiply by 0.1) may be allowable or highly discouraged depending on your situation.
Trying to do either option with 10 lines (and up to 5+ stacking) is not going to be very good.
I think Viking is right and you might want to check out other visualization options. Grouped column charts perhaps or just split your chart into multiple charts on the page (i.e. four separate trend charts)
In my chart, Incomprehensible what value of Y axis belong to X axis, what the best way to present the chart clearly. Attached Image.
Have you considered using StripLines?
Taken from this MSDN article
To show vertical strip lines, right-click the horizontal chart axis and click Horizontal Axis Properties.
Select the Use interlacing option. Grey strip lines will appear on your chart.
Applying this to a chart will then alternate the colour for each category on the X axis, such as this. This will make it clearer which columns belong to which X axis category.
Update
For use with a 3D Clustered column chart you will need to set up the Striplines in a more complicated way.
Select your X axis and find StripLines in the properties. Hit the '...' to open a new window.
Add a New Member and set it up as shown in the below image. This is effectively saying show a line for every second number, and offset the stripline by 0.5 of a category.
In my example I have set the BackgroundColour to MidnightBlue also, which gives an output similar to
With this alternating background it should make it clearer for your users to see which columns belong to which category.
Let me know if you need further assistance with this.
I am using SQL Server 2012. SSRS
I have a stacked bar charts that includes interest and dividends. I would like to add the sum of these values to the area just above the stacked bar chart. I have tried adjusting various properties for the labels but I can't get the label position to be anywhere but the middle of the stacked bar chart. Any ideas how to get these labels to be just above the stacked bar charts?
I tried the solutions mentioned here and found them cumbersome compared to this gem: http://peltiertech.com/label-totals-on-stacked-charts/
Add a "total" to your dataset (in my case, a percentage)
Add the total series to your stacked bar chart
Change the total series chart type to a line
Hide the line and line markers by setting their fill color to none
Set the Total series to not show in the legend
Set the data point position for your total series to "Top"
Here is my result:
There is not a way to do this with settings.
Here are a couple of links that give you step by step instructions:
http://beyondrelational.com/modules/2/blogs/65/posts/11575/display-total-on-top-of-stacked-chart.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/654f30c2-ad3a-4b4e-a34f-adf4db6b78d2/stacked-column-chart-total?forum=sqlreportingservices
Basically, the workaround is to create another series or category in your chart that is the totals (which requires updating your dataset to include the totals), make it transparent, and turn data labels on. The MSDN answer says to make it a line chart while the Beyond Relational article leaves it as part of the stacked bar. Either way will work.