I have the following chart (ssrs 2008), it shows sales according to #FromDate and #ToDate parameters.
The data is correct.
The problem is that when it shows comparison between years (=more than one year for the same month on a chart), the color stays the same, as you can see in months 4, 5, 6, 7:
How can i change it?
I would appreciate your help
There are a few different web descriptions with overviews of controlling the bar colors in a chart, such as this at learn.microsoft.com or Change the series colors for a bar chart (Images are currently dead in this, limiting its helpfulness).
The key is finding the "Series Properties" dialog and the "Fill" section, where you can specify the fill color: Use an expression such as:
=IIF(YEAR(Fields!MyDateField.Value) mod 2 = 0, "#FF0000", "#00FF00")
To Add some more explanation to JamieFs answer. This is the steps that I followed:
Right click on the series Select "Series Properites..."
Go to Fill:
Press the Expression button(Fx) and type in your equation to calculate the colour:
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I've placed a simple bar chart into an SSRS report which is designed to display a series of Consultant Names (along the x axis), with a corresponding count of patients who are flagged as being in the category ">18 Weeks" (on the y axis), based on the following expression:
=SUM(IIF(Fields!RTTWaitGroup.Value=">18 Weeks",1,0))
The chart renders fine. However, a number of the Consultants listed in the chart have a zero count, and therefore are listed across the x axis but with no vertical bar displayed, as you'd expect.
I'd like to configure the chart so that it only displays those consultants that have a count of 1 or more patients.
I'm not overly familiar with the syntax, but I've tried using the following expression in both the Series Properties and Chart Properties 'Visibility' options, to try and suppress x axis categories that are zero, but it doesn't have any effect on the chart:
=iif(Fields!LastConsultant.Value ="",True,False)
Please can anyone advise on correct syntax and appropriate expression field to enter it?
Presumably your consultant names will be in the category group, if so right mouse click and select category group properties.Select Filters, in the expression enter count(fields!patients.value)... for example. Change type to integer , operator to greater than and the value to 0.
I am trying to add an indicator in Report Builder to show on my report using 2 fixed conditions. the first condition is if the description of a field = "Compensation", the second being if a field date is >= Now(). It should then go red after 5 days.
I have added the indicator and in the Value and States tab, for Value I have added =(Fields!Description.Value ="Compensation")
For the indicator: Color Expression is "Yellow"
Start expression is =(fields!StartDate.value >=Now())
End expression is =(fields!StartDate.Value =Now()+5)
when I run the report, where the indicatr should be, I get text that reads "An error has occurred during data evaluation of the GaugePanel'GaugePanel5'.
Hope I've explained in enough detail.
Is anyone able to offer any advice on indicators please?
Thanks
I ended up using an expression under fill in Textbox Properties instead of adding an indicator which is giving me the required results. Example =IIF(Fields!ComplaintStageDescription.Value = "Stage0", "yellow", IIF(Fields!ComplaintStageDescription.Value = "Stage3", "white", IIF(Sum(Fields!DaysOpen.Value) < 5 ,"lime", IIF(Sum(Fields!DaysOpen.Value) < 10, "yellow" ,"red"))))
I have an SSRS Line chart which plots supply points with square feet on the X axis and Price on the Y axis. Right now I don't really care about making it pretty just getting the lines to show up correctly. I am plotting the points and grouping by Subdivision/Builder.
So for example Subdivision A has builders Y and Z. I want to show different colors and lines for Subdivision A builder Y verses Subdivision A Builder Z.
The problem is that the lines are not connecting when a point for another subdivision builder combination breaks up that line.
The grey line and points below are not all connected as the yellow point is between the grey points so the grey line is not connected to all grey points.
How can I make the points of the same color (same Subdivision/Builder) connected via a line?
As I found out the hard way recently, this problem is often caused by null values in the data not being properly handled by SSRS. Without seeing your data, I can't be certain that's the cause, but nulls were the culprit I encountered the same behavior.
The solutions usually involve assigning values to the color of the EmptyPoint property on the Series, sometimes in conjunction with setting the EmptyPointValue to specify null handling. I've found many references to this problem on the web, but I'll only post links to the best two, both of which are on StackExchange:
The thread SSRS Line Chart NULL VALUE - Horizontal Line contains a thorough discussion of this issue. The usual workaround given is to hard-code a color expression for each line using an IIf, but sometimes this isn't an option, especially if the field you're grouping on has dynamic, unpredictable values, as my dataset did.
The picture posted there depicts clear examples of the same type of line breaks. The user named trubs posted a code sample which illustrates how to set the EmptyPoint, in case where an Iif will work:
=iif(isNothing(Fields!SelectedValue.Value),'No Color',"LightBlue")
The first reply in SSRS Line Chart Not Connecting Data Points details a workaround for cases when the EmptyPoint value & nulls are the root cause and simple hard-coded IIfs won't do the trick. Although I have yet to get my line colors to match the point markers the way I'd like, I can verify that this solution at least gives you your lines back and allows you to assign a variety of colors to them. It's fairly simple and involves merely pasting in some VB code for a couple color properties.
I was asked in the comments section to provide the details of the solutions, but don't want to plagiarize, so I'll simply do a long direct quote of JohnBob's answer:
Firstly, in order to get the lines to join up, you need to set the
EmptyPoint colour for the series.
Select your series in your chart In the properties tab (not the
dialog) drill down into the EmptyPoint property and set the colour to
be Black
This will get them joining up - yay! But part of the line is colour
and the other part is black, right? That's a bit silly, especially
considering if you leave the colour to Automatic on the EmptyPoint
that it will be transparent.
So, then we need to get the series and the EmptyPoint's colours in
sync. Using code from here. I added some code to the code of the
report.
1). Right click on an empty space on the report and select "Report
Properties" 2). In the code tab, paste the following:
Private colorPalette As String() = {"#418CF0", "#FCB441", "#E0400A", "#05642E", "#1A3B69", "#BFBFBF", "#E0400A", "#FCB441", "DarkBlue", "Tomato", "Orange", "CornflowerBlue", "Gold", "Red", "Green", "LightBlue", "Lime", "Maroon", "LightSteelBlue", "Tan", "Silver"}
Private count As Integer = 0
Private mapping As New System.Collections.Hashtable()
Public Function GetColor(ByVal groupingValue As String) As String
If mapping.ContainsKey(groupingValue) Then
Return mapping(groupingValue)
End If
Dim c As String = colorPalette(count Mod colorPalette.Length)
count = count + 1
mapping.Add(groupingValue, c)
Return c
End Function
Then we need to call this code when setting the colour of the series
and of the EmptyPoint.
Select your series
In the properties tab paste something the following (replace WhateverTheGroupIsForYourSeries with your series group name):
=Code.GetColor(Fields!*WhateverTheGroupIsForYourSeries*.Value)
Drill down to the color element of the EmptyPoint Series property
Paste the same text as from point two [e.g. =Code.GetColor(Fields!*WhateverTheGroupIsForYourSeries*.Value)]
And voila! You're done! I can't believe how unnecessarily difficult
this is :D
I hope this helps.
Just put your Fields!(YourSeriesGroup).Value in Series Groups to above of
Fields!(YourCategoryGroup).Value in Category Groups, your series group should be in both Series Groups and Category Groups (should be above of your initial category group).
And after that right click horizontal axis and select Horizontal Axis Properties. Set Axis Type to Scalar and click OK.
I have a question, want some assistance.
Q) My question is that i have a chart in which analyst assigned for many incidents and some analyst have 1 or two incident assigned. just because of this the bar chart looks ugly some time. So thats why i used a new chart to represent Min incident count. But i want there some creativeness, for which i want there a radio button or OnClick event ( I do not know how to use both these. When report runs by default it`ll show Max incidents count chart and when we used radio button it will show Min incidents count chart, on the same chart area no need of new area or on new page.
Kindly help me or refer me some links and with ideas. As i have searched many blogs but i didn`t get any big achievement.
Below is my Simplified query;
SELECT
Count(IncidentDimvw.Id)
,UserDimvw.FirstName AS Analyst
FROM
IncidentDimvw
FULL JOIN WorkItemDimvw
ON IncidentDimvw.EntityDimKey = WorkItemDimvw.EntityDimKey
JOIN WorkItemAssignedToUserFactvw
ON WorkItemDimvw.WorkItemDimKey = WorkItemAssignedToUserFactvw.WorkItemDimKey
JOIN UserDimvw
ON WorkItemAssignedToUserFactvw.WorkItemAssignedToUser_UserDimKey = UserDimvw.UserDimKey
WHERE
WorkItemAssignedToUserFactvw.DeletedDate IS NULL
GROUP BY
UserDimvw.FirstName
Having (Count(IncidentDimvw.Id) = (#Count))
Having Clause is right or wrong, i donot know.
I used the following expresion in series as you suggested.
=iif(Parameters!Count.Value, Max(Sum(Fields!ID.Value)), Min(Sum(Fields!ID.Value)))
Sample data is as folows;
Regards
Muhammad Ahsan
I can think of a couple of ways to approach this:
Dynamic expressions based on parameter
Say you have a simple DataSet like:
And also a boolean parameter called showMax.
We can create a simple bar graph based on this:
The most important thing to note is that Series value is expression-based:
In the above example the expression is:
=IIf(Parameters!showMax.Value
, Max(Fields!value.Value)
, Min(Fields!value.Value))
i.e. when showMax is true, report the Max values, otherwise report the min values.
In this case I've also updated the Axis title, Chart title, and Custom legend text to be expression-based:
Axis Title: =IIf(Parameters!showMax.Value, "Max", "Min")
Chart Title: =IIf(Parameters!showMax.Value, "Max per group", "Min per group")
Custom legend text: =IIf(Parameters!showMax.Value, "Max value", "Min value")
The chart behaviour changes based on what parameter is selected as required:
Set Visibility based on parameter
Another option is simply to have to charts and hide one depending on parameter selection.
For example, for the Max chart the Hidden property can be set to:
=Not(Parameters!showMax.Value)
Setting this property correctly for each report will mean only one is ever displayed to the user, i.e. it will look dynamic.
Either of these options should work; the first keeps the layout simple in the designer makes the chart more complex, the second makes the layout more complex but keeps the charts simple.
Hopefully one option will work for you.
I have SSRS solution for SQL 2005 and 2008.
I am showing output in the form of chart- column chart with each column representing different database.
Is there a way to display each column in different color?
Regards
Manjot
You can use a formula to set the colour of each column, but that would work best if you knew what the individual series values ('databases'?) were going to be.
Right-click on your chart and bring up its properties. Now switch to the Data tab and select the first item in the Values list. Click the Edit... button to show the properties for the values (the columns) in your chart. Over on the Appearance tab there's a Series Style... button which takes you to another dialog.
On this new Style Properties dialog, switch to the Fill tab. That's where you set the colour for each of your columns. This can be a formula, so you might make it something like:
=Switch(
Fields!Database.Value = "master", "Blue",
Fields!Database.Value = "msdb", "Red",
"Green")
If you don't know in advance which 'databases' are going to be represented on the chart, this method won't work very well. In that case you might be able to come up with a formula which hashes the database name and comes up with a colour to match. That sounds like an interesting challenge, so add to your question if you need help doing something like that.
Edit
I just got a hash-based-colour-scheme working. It's a pretty nasty piece of code, but it did manage to get me a unique colour for every (string valued) column. Perhaps someone can come up with a better algorithm and post it here. Here's mine:
="#" & left(Hex(Fields!Database.GetHashCode()), 6)
So that's getting the HashCode for the string (a numeric value) and converting it to hex, then taking the leftmost six characters and prepending it with a "#" sign. That gives us a string that looks like a colour value (eg #AB12F0).