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.
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I'm working on a "contract format-like" rdlc report, which will have four tablix with variable numbers of rows. This report also have a fixed "last page" that is set to do a page break "always".
What I want to achieve is to "span" some element to gave the impression that the remaining white space between penultimate/before last and last page won't be written/added with any more info in the future (as we use to do by handwriting/completing, in the past). The ideal object could be a transversal line (I think that's not possible in my research). Also I have found some workarounds that take in count the "number of rows" of each tablix and do and approximation height, then add the "needed" rows to the end of the last tablix but that's not quite the solution I'm looking for.
Please look the attached image for a better idea of the line desired location:
Explanation-Layout-And-Variable-Height-Meaning
I hope you can advise with your experience on this (even if not the solution some idea of how to achieve it).
Thanks in advance!
Unless I'm missing something....
If you wan to simply add a page break and then a 'blank' page...
Just add a rectangle under your last tablix.
Make it short vertically, (the width does not really matter as long as it's no wider than you tablix). Move it so it's close to the last tablix (say 5pt below)
Right-click the rectable and choose properties. Now set the properties of the rectangle to "Add a page break before"
This will force a page break after the last tablix and then push the empty rectangle onto the next page giving the impression that it is blank.
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.
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.
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 a report with a bunch of controls in the Detail section.
I am working off a word document that was given to me as a sample and I recreated it in access almost perfectly. What I need now is a way to handle overflowing the text boxes. I have "Can Grow" enabled, but here is the real issue:
I have a fake table going on. Multiple text boxes arranged in a way that just doesn't work in a subform. Certain cells have red, green or yellow backgrounds while others are just plain white. When one of the text fields overflows, and "grows", the other text boxes in the same row stay the same size as before and it looks very very odd (703 twips vs 300). I would really just love for it to work as if it were a table in word/excel and the entire row would grow at once (all =703 twips), but seeing as how it isn't literally a "row" I just want a way to associate the height of these text boxes with each other.
Is anything like this possible? If I need to clarify anything just let me know, I hope I've given ample information.
In the design view of your report select all the textbox controls in the detail section and all the labels in the page header section. Right click on one of the textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular. The controls and labels should now align with each other.
You've not set which version of Access you're using but this works in Access 2007.
Ok here we go. So I had a fake table, I needed it to have table borders around each text box and when one text box got taller than the others in the row, the borders would look totally wrong. So, what we have to do is literally draw on the report at runtime, which can be done in any view including print preview. This code must be placed in the Print event
'step one. find out which box in the row has the greatest height value.
'You can come across this information however you want.
'It will likely depend on what data goes in the boxes.
'For the sake of the answer length we will skip that actual code
'step two. Take measurements and store them in variables.
'You will need a start point, and an end point in standard (x1,y1),(x2,y2) form.
Dim t As Integer 'top
Dim l As Integer 'left
Dim b As Integer 'bottom
'step three. Use these measurements and draw your lines.
'Try to use looping if your naming and report layout work will allow it.
Me.Line (l, t)-(l, b), RGB(0, 0, 0)
' (x1,y1)(x2,y2),pick a color
'We just drew a line straight down the length of the control
'If you plan ahead, and place a line on the report permanently on top of the first row
'and below every row, you will only need to draw vertical lines.
'The lines below each row will be pushed down by the tallest control
I hope this helps. I had no idea this stuff existed before at all. Here is the MSDN info about it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa221362%28v=office.11%29.aspx
OK...
1 - Go into Design view of your report
2 - Select ALL the textbox controls in the detail section that you want to be table like and ALL grow if any one grows.
3 - Right click on one of the selected textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular.... but... now... after you have your textbox row controls as a tabular layout... You must do one thing more...
4 - Inside your reports FORMAT TAB properties... Set ALL PADDING properties to 0.00... 0.00 for Top Padding, 0.00 Right Padding, 0.00 Left Padding and 0.00 Bottom Padding. (default is usually around 0.0208)
5 - Please note that changing your textboxes to a Tabular Layout kinda throws your textboxes to the right (at least for me) so you may need to re-adjust them so they are aligned with your Page Header textboxes again (if you have any that you might be using to header name your table like columns).
6 - Make sure ALL SPACE is removed in the detail area by having the bottom bar (page or report footer) snugly up against the bottom of your Tabular Textbox Layout and also ditto with the upper detail bar (page or report header).
7 - Now when you look your report in print preview with max 200% or more zoom you WILL still see very very minor spaces between your cells in your layout but when you actually print they will be almost unnoticeable unless you take out a magnifying lens.
I found a solution for my situation but I would like to have a better one...
In my case, a TextBox at the left side is describing the content of 1 to 3 pictures on the right side. The TextBox, if enlarging more than the height of the first picture, would shift pictures 2 and 3 down, in spite of a properly designed Top-Attribute in the picture controls.
My solution: I put the height attribute of the text box to 15cm (e.g 2 Inch) and enable it as shrinkable.
However, strange, but this helps for positioning the Pictures at its desired Top-Locations... :-) as well as minimizing the horizontal space used.