I have a small prob in my chart legend. It shows like below at present. I just want to see AP1, AP2, PRIN and just one Total. Is this possible?
You can stop a series from appearing in the legend by going to the series properties and ticking 'Do not show this series in a legend'. How your chart is set up at the moment, you could do this to all but one of your Total series so that only one shows in the legend.
However, it may be more beneficial to make it clear what each separate total is calculating. If each is totalling a different set of data, you should make their styles different and change the Custom Legend Text to specify what is being totalled. If all the totals are supposed to be the same (i.e. Total = AP1 + AP2 + PRIN) you should check your calculations and only include the series on the chart once.
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I am looking to change the color in the "gaps" in the range chart that I have built.
Essentially I am trying to build a visualization for the staff to see the availability on bays. The red markings mean the bay is booked, I wanted green then to be in between the red to highlight free bays.
Occupied bays:
I suspect I need to go back to my dataset and add in some date tables to show "null data" to allow a "switch" to work, but I thought someone might know if I could change this without going this way.
An example of the dataset would be:
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here is a screen shot of my output, i added data labels to see if i was going wrong...HOWEVER I also added shadows to my data and my data is actually still there, just hiding behing my secondary bars......
you are right about my data set, i had to add a series grouping to get my appointments all to appear other wise i was just getting the first appointments on the row only to appear....
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A further follow up, I have followed #iamdave 's excellent RangeChart.RDL
I have applied my dataset to it but I am now getting the following output, I know I am probably missing something simple, my gut is telling me the cust_id are seperating all the appointments on to seperate lines yet I have both the primary and secondary axis set to "DrawSideBySide = False"
Here is my set up..
here is my latest output, if I could just group all the rows/bars/lines down to the 6 bays it would be great.
You can do this by adding in another data series based on your original dataset, that will require significantly less processing than filling in all your empty periods as suggested by WEI_DBA.
In your dataset, add a new column that returns dense_rank() over (order by BAY) as BayID (order by should be your desired axis label).
This may be best done as a wrapping select statement to preserve the rest of the query logic as is.
In your Range Chart, add in another Values item, with the same Category Field as your current one.
Set the Top Value to 1 and your Bottom Value to 0.
You could also set this to the min and max time of your dataset or the start and end period of your report to only cover the period the Bay was available.
Set it to display on the Secondary Axis for both Vertical and Horizontal axes.
Also select the Do not show this series in a legend option.
Set up the Secondary Vertical Axis in exactly the same way as your Primary Vertical axis.
Set the Secondary Horizontal Axis Minimum and Maximum to the same values as your Bottom and Top above.
Hide both the Secondary Axes.
Select the new Values item and in the Properties window, expand the CustomAttributes section and change DrawSideBySide to False.
If necessary, adjust the order of the Values items in your Chart Data window to make sure the new Range Bar displays underneath your actual data.
Select the original Values item and in the properties sidebar navigate to Data > DataPoint:
Change AxisLabel to =Fields!BAY.Value (Your axis label).
Change Values > X to =Fields!BayID.Value (Value from point 1.).
You should now have a range chart that that displays your data on top of a solid bar, that you can set to any colour you require:
I have 2 kinds of charts,pie chart and column chart.
I present the same data of both charts, the problem is that color that presents each equipment is not the same in both of them.
Thanks
The chart legend uses color fields to match the legend items to the
visible data points. The legend can only show one color field per
legend item (data series); hence, it shows the color of the first data
point within that series. Remember this when you use expressions to
dynamically determine the color of individual data points within a
series; the legend item always shows the actual color of the first
data point.
Using the same legend order in both charts should do the trick.
Series are ordered in the legend according to the order that they are
processed by the Reporting Services processing engine. You can change
the order by changing the order of fields in the data fields
drop-zone. If you are using series grouping, the series data is not
known until processing, so that there is no way for you to re-order
these items.
If you're using series, which you probably are, you should make sure they're ordered correctly before sending them to the reporter.
Another solution is to create a custom legend for your charts. Which gives you a lot more control, especially if you define a custom color palette aswell.
You can get more flexibility and control over the legend by generating
your own custom legend by using a table or a matrix. The easiest way
to synchronize the colors in the chart with your custom legend is to
define your own custom chart color palette.
To build a custom legend
Add a table data region to the report.
Place the table next to the chart and bind it to the same dataset as the chart.
Mirror the chart grouping structure in the table by adding table
groups.
If the chart uses series groupings, add them to the table by
adding table groups that are based on the same group expression as
the one in the chart series groupings. Then add chart category
groupings (if present) as inner table groups.
In general, if the
chart has m series grouping and n category grouping, you add m+n
table groups for your custom legend.
For the individual table
groups, make sure to show only the group header (which will contain
the legend description). Also, remove the table detail row unless
you want to use the table detail rows to simulate a chart data
table.
Design the custom legend.
Add a rectangle for the color field of the
custom legend. For example, you might add it to the first table
column. As indicated in step 2, you should only have group header
rows in the table. The rectangle goes into the innermost group
header level.
Set the rectangle BackgroundColor property to the equivalent expression used on the chart data point's fill color. In the most
trivial case, the expression would just contain one grouping value as
in the following code.
=Code.GetColor(Fields!Country.Value)
For the legend text, use either the same expression as in the category and series group/label expressions, or experiment until you
achieve the legend description text that you want.
Sources:
Get More Out of SQL Server Reporting Services Charts
Formatting the Legend on a Chart
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 stacked column chart in SSRS that displays data by hour. Included in this data is the meters reading, kVa, Average Temperature and Heat Index for that hour. For some reason, the legend items for the temperature values and the kVa are being repeated for each meter in the dataset. I would like for my legend to have the following values: kVa, Average, Heat Index and each meter number. I included a sample of the chart, the chart data configuration as well as some sample data below. Any idea how I can accomplish this? Please let me know if any other information is required.
Here is a good solution which covers all possible scenarios
go to "Report Properties" (right click in the blank area)
go to variables and add a new variable called myflag, set the value to "true" and deselect Read-Only
go to the "Series Properties" and then to "Legend" and click the expression button next to "Do not show this series in legend"
Type or paste this code:
=IIF( Variables!myflag.Value = true, false, true )
=Variables!myflag.SetValue( false )
and that's it.
hint
You can use the same variable in the same series' visibility expression without the setting part in the second line to avoid overlapping the drawing of the same series on the chart
I couldn't get either of these answers to work for me. Ended up using RowNumber and CountRows in the expression for Do not show this series in a legend property.
=IIF(RowNumber("Dataset")=CountRows(),false,true)
You're getting one set of legend values per series you've added. For each series besides the one whose legend you want to keep visible, right click the series (each top-level row in the "Values" box), choose Series Properties, go to the Legend tab, and check "Do not show this series in a Legend."
I was able to fix my issue using information from this question on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1867343/965213
Go to the Legend page of the series properties you want to include in the chart.
Edit the function for the "Do not show this series in a legend" property.
Use this formula: =IIF(Fields!SerialNumber.Value=Last(Fields!SerialNumber.Value,"MeterDetail"),false,true)
Now the series will only be repeated once instead of once per series group.
Hope this helps!
The report user wants to have groups by business unit and within each group they want to chart a set of same 4 metrics one under another: metric1, metric2... metric4. Under each of the merticN chart they want a matrix showing metricN values in rows where the months are the columns (metricN is actually 3 metrics: current month's, YTD and previous YE which is the same for every month).
Question: I know that it is possible to use list, bound to a group, to show charts by groups. Is it possible to insert a matrix for the same group under the chart (not to the right of it)?
I tried inserting nested rectangles, but a matrix inside a nested rectangle can no longer be bound to the same dataset, needless to say to the group (dataset is disabled).
As a proof of concept I can build a matrix with a chart inside the proper group, which does not solve the task of putting charts above the data. The charts, even so small, look fine in design, but in preview mode SSRS plays some dirty tricks. The resulting chart (occupying 100% of the group box and leving no space for group title, of course) is very ugly - horrible combination of scaling (why?!) and being squeezed into a small area. It looks like SSRS is going mad when a chart is in a confined space. The charts are stretched vertically and horizontally, the lines are thick and fuzzy. Only those charts, that end up in a partial group at the end of the page, look OK from graphical POV.
The most scandalous part is that even though data is correctly groupped by the matrix and reflected in the axis auto-scaling ticks and legends, it is not plotted. The charts remain empty. There must be some 'advanced option' hidden somewhere that is necessary for the charts to work within a matrix, or it is simply bugged.
Edit:
The best I've done so far was adding a Total row above a group and inserting a chart into that cell. It is somewhat closer to the requirement with several drawbacks:
The chart is only above the group name, not above whole matrix
Due to p.1 the chart cannot be made large enough
The matrix's column headers are separated from matrix data by the area
height of the chart
However the chart is still not plotting data. Playing with Category/Series Groups 'Synchronize group in' property is not helping.
To have a chart per group and group data in a matrix one on top of another, one should create a list and insert the required row groups with header rows. Then make group columns except the innermost hidden, delete the detail row and insert both chart and matrix into the innermost child group.
Then put the group fields into the group header cells.
This way the group titles appear at the beginning, then the chart, then the matrix and the last two are repeated in every child group.