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Display field values of single record as data points on a chart

Started by GovGuy, 24 Sep 2015 05:32:14 PM

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GovGuy

I am trying to create a chart of Revenues and Expenditures.  I want each data point on the chart to represent the revenue or expense for a particular month.  Our Fiscal Year runs October through September.  The revenue or expense data for an object is stored by month in a single record as follows:





ObjectActual01Actual02Actual03 ... Actual12
Revenue100400200...350
Expense325115800...600

All the Actuals for a given object are in the same record as the object.  Actual01 represents the October actual amount,  Actual02 represents the November actual amount and Actual12 represents the September actual amount.

I want to total the Actuals for the revenue and expense objects and display by month on a chart.  I have no problem getting the totals for each month (October-September), but since they are all in the same record, I don't know how to display them to represent each month on a chart.

GovGuy

I'm not sure how I stumbled on to the solution, but in Query Studio, I was able to convert my List to Crosstab and then once I swapped rows and columns and renamed my Actuals to the Months they represent, I was able to get the chart to where I needed it.