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Title: Anybody know about Waterfall charts?
Post by: acabugason on 23 Oct 2007 03:01:58 PM
Has anybody heard of and know how to create waterfall charts in Report Studio? It is similar to the progressive chart. The difference is that the waterfall chart has two measures while the progressive chart only has one.

Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: Anybody know about Waterfall charts?
Post by: trevorp on 24 Oct 2007 04:15:03 AM
Hi

I had the same problem recently where my client required a waterfall graph. I ended up using a stacked barchart and made one of the measures transparent (see attachment)

              Measure 1   Measure 2 (cumulative)
Data Item 1    10       0
Data Item 2   20     10 (measure 1)
Data Item 3   25     30 (measure 1 + 2)
etc      
   
Put this into a stacked barchart and make the measure 2 transparent in the graph and make sure it is the bottom measure. You would also need to include a sort order in the query report providing data to the graph




Title: Re: Anybody know about Waterfall charts?
Post by: almeids on 24 Oct 2007 08:07:26 AM
Haven't done anything with waterfall charts but I think one is included in the Great Outdoors samples.
Title: Re: Anybody know about Waterfall charts?
Post by: acabugason on 24 Oct 2007 09:02:10 AM
trevorp ... this is very helpful! I'll give it a shot.

almeids ... I'll check out the samples.

thanks to both!
Title: Re: Anybody know about Waterfall charts?
Post by: AM on 07 Apr 2015 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: trevorp on 24 Oct 2007 04:15:03 AM
Hi

I had the same problem recently where my client required a waterfall graph. I ended up using a stacked barchart and made one of the measures transparent (see attachment)
Thanks trevorp, a very elegant solution.
AM.