I have a simple chart, and on the x-axis I have numbers ranging from 10000 to 10031.
The numbers are from a SQL call, and these values have values, which are plotted on the y-axis, just a simple chart.
The chart is only showing six of the numbers between 10000 and 10031, and having the user figure out the other numbers, I suppose to avoid clutter.
I would like all of the x-axis number to show up, and to fit it will need to be rotated 90 degrees.
I cannot find a setting to make all of the numbers show up.
In "Axis Properties", select "Axis Options" and put in "1" for the expression to show all. "2" will show every other, and the default, "0" will mean for Reporting Services to optimize as it sees fit, usually between every fourth or sixth element.
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I need to make a line chart with the month on horizontal axis and a value on the vertical axis.
I need to colour the line's segments in green if the trend based on the previous month is growing, or in red if the trend is decreasing.
I can't find a way to compare the values grouped by month, and I prefer not to perform this by adding another query from db.
Right-click on the Chart Series (the line of the graph) and select Series Properties..., click Fill on the left then click the fx button to enter and expression for the fill. Let's say your field is called Sales. Use the following expression for the Fill:
=IIF(Fields!Sales.Value >= Previous(Fields!Sales.Value), "Green", "Red")
This worked on my simple test. You may need to aggregate within your query (group by month and sum) for this to work properly.
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)
I have an SSRS report with a bar chart with multiple series by CountryName Category group. What I want to do is have gridlines which split each country like below:
However in SSRS the major gridlines seem to interval with the line in the middle of the country name when the grid interval is set to 1 like below:
Can someone point me in the right direction into how to rectify this?
Also is there a way of adding the X axis in SSRS to start from zero like I have in my first graph?
Thanks
You can do it, there is an offset property on the grid lines (horizontal and vertical are separate). Click one one of the gridlines and look in the properties pane. Change the offset to 0.5.
Gives you this.
I'm not sure what you meant about starting from zero on the X-Axis, you have negative values so you'll start from a negative number. If you meant you wantde zero aligned to the middle. You can do that to. You need to set the min and max values of the horizontal axis to the following
Min Value:
=MAX(ABS(Fields!MyValueField.Value), "MyDataSet")*-1
Max Value will be:
=MAX(ABS(Fields!MyValueField.Value), "MyDataSet")
Basically we take the ABSolute largest value and use that as the extent (*-1 for the min value). The problem is that zero might not show so you'll have to play around with the Axis properties maybe to get that working. I'm sure it's possible but I don't have time to test at the moment.
My test data is not great as the number are large
I have a bar chart that show the count of number of models for each agency,
The problem is that I have a large difference between the values that makes the report to look not so good.
Does anyone have any ideas of a good way to resolve this problem?
Have you considered using a logarithmic scale?
With your chart Right-click the y-axis, and click Vertical Axis Properties.
In Axis Options, select Use logarithmic scale.
Leave the Log base text box as 10 (this is the scale most commonly used by logarithmic charts)
This will display a chart with a scale that goes up by a factor of 10 for each ‘unit’ up, so the distance between 1 and 10 is the same as that between 100 and 1000.
For example the shown dataset is displayed as this chart when using the logarithmic scale
This method is a simple and recognised way to clearly show values of widely different scales.
Update
If want an indicative bar for the vales that are 1 then you could use the expression
=iif(Fields!val.Value = 1, Fields!val.Value * 1.1, Fields!val.Value)
To make all values that are 1 equal to 1.1 so showing a tiny bar appearing a the bottom of the chart, as seen here
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to change that first 1 to a zero (formatting-wise). This is partly because you are now using a logarithmic scale and zero and negative values don't really exist. This is due to a fundamental property of logarithms in mathematics, that
LOG10(10)= 1
LOG10(1) = 0
LOG10(.1)=-1
Therefore, when you perform a log10 of zero, it just doesn't exist.
I have basically loosely followed this link
http://www.angelsbiblog.com/2012/02/improve-data-visualization-in-your-ssrs.html
and made the below linked graph. Its one dataset, I have simply pulled in Gross Profit and Sales fields. Neither are calculated fields. I put them in 2 different chart areas, but then as per that link, made the chart areas the same size so they overlay.
*Apologies for a photobucket link instead of inserted image but I don't have 10 reputation points to be able to insert images.
http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag447/AndrewJacksons/IncomeandProfit_zpse074ac02.jpg
what I want to do, is as illustrated by that inserted green arrow in the graph image, is raise up the Zero line for the Income bars (yellow) to the same level as the Profit/Loss(Blue-Red).
I also want the vertical axis to preferably have the same axis, so i dont have to have that secondary axis on the right.
However the main thing is the graphs sharing their zero line. I have made the Profit bars smaller I width than the yellow bars, so in a month of blue profit, it would simply sit neatly inside the yellow income bar.
I haven't added expenses because it should be obvious what they are by the height differential btw Income to Profit or to the Loss.
Any ideas much appreciated.
I have just experienced this problem, but this page did not solve it.
Dan's answer ("simply set the minimum and maximum values for the vertical axes on both areas manually") came close, but did not solve the problem for me because I needed the axis to be automatically calculated. If the maximum of the two datasets is something like 193,456 then you get that exact value as a label on the axis rather than the sensible value of 200,000.
The solution is to allow SSRS to calculate the axis labels automatically but to trick it by using both sets of data in each chart. Then you hide the data set that you don't want the user to see.
In each chart I made the data series of interest a column chart and the other data series a line chart (without markers), as all you need to do is set the fill color for the line series to None. If you try the same with columns for the other series the invisible columns affect the position of the visible columns even if they have been set to zero width.
Make sure both series in the chart use the Primary Vertical axis. Go into properties for the Income series > Go to "Axes and Chart Area", and make sure that the series uses the primary vertical axis: