Monday, March 19, 2012

Controlling the Chart Axis Interval

Greetings,
I have a chart indicating sales metrics.
The $ axis has no interval set, so it is automatic.
Sometimes, depending on what parameter the report is given, the
interval is very small and there are so many major grid lines that it
is nearly impossible to make sense of the chart.
This chart is not very big; it is only part of the report.
Is there some setting to tell the chart to be a little smarter about
the axis interval?
PLEASE NOTE: setting the interval manually would result in a HORRIBLE
result because depending on the parameter passed in, the chart
displays very different ranges of numbers.
Thank you in advance for your help.
JerryFor RS 2000, you might look into having multiple charts side by side. One
would use auto intervals, another one would use specific interval settings
for situations where auto intervals don't work well (e.g. if all data point
values are between 0 and 1). You would then hide all charts
(Visibility.Hidden property) except the one with the appropriate interval
settings for the current data.
BTW: we plan to have expression-based intervals in the next version.
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"Jerry Nixon" <jerrynixon@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
> I have a chart indicating sales metrics.
> The $ axis has no interval set, so it is automatic.
> Sometimes, depending on what parameter the report is given, the
> interval is very small and there are so many major grid lines that it
> is nearly impossible to make sense of the chart.
> This chart is not very big; it is only part of the report.
> Is there some setting to tell the chart to be a little smarter about
> the axis interval?
> PLEASE NOTE: setting the interval manually would result in a HORRIBLE
> result because depending on the parameter passed in, the chart
> displays very different ranges of numbers.
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> Jerry

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