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Bar Chart with an "unknown" number of series

Started by Sunchaser, 14 Dec 2017 05:22:58 PM

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Sunchaser

Hi all,

Everything is more or less in the title.
Let's say I have a report with a page break per town, and on each page a bar chart (for example). For some towns, I have to display 2 series, for some others 4, and some others 6.
Is there a way to do this dynamically, or should I simply put 6 series per default in the bar chart and hide the unnecessary series based on any relevant flag (that I would set-up and use for a variable)?
But if in the future I need 8 series for a town, I'll have to modify my query, add the 2 new series and add a new variable in order to hide then when not necessary, etc..etc..
I don't really see for the moment how it could be done "dynamically", even on database side, but ... I prefer to ask.

Any idea welcome,
Thanks
V.

sdf

is the number of series per chart means the number of series with data? so in some graph with just two series does that mean that they only have value for those?

Sunchaser

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.
Yes, if "2 series only" (for example), then it means they can have data only for two series, not more.

V.

Invisi

I don't really get your issue. If you use the series option in your bar chart and your category has a certain number of relevant values for your grouping value (a specific town in your case), it will only show that many series I think? Are you testing / developing it at the moment? Is this a real issue or hypothetical?
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