Graph capabilities?

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Graph capabilities?

Larry Stein

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March 16, 2004 at 3:08 pm

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1) Dynamic number of axis labels?
I have a 4x100 grid to display as a 4-line graph. As an example, think of the x-axis as date, the y-axis as sales$. The graph represents sales of 4 products for the last 100 periods. The x-axis labels appear on top of one another and are copmletely illegible. Zoom does nothing but make the mess larger - it does not change the scale of the graph, just the magnification of the mess.
Excel graphs the same data by only showing every Nth label. I can then mouse over any data point to see the specific values. It did this for free - I didn't choose any label options in Excel. In Reporting Services I found no set of label options that gives usable x-axis labels.
2) Graph interaction?
...which brings up the issue of Reporting Services graph objects. The graph is rendered as an image. I see no way in which to interact with it as a graph at runtime. I can't mouse over a point to see the values. I'd rather not display the giant grid and tell the user to look there for a specific value. Am I missing something? Highly likely!
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Larry
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James Luetkehoelter SSCommitted Points: 1733 More actions · Answer 1

Hi Larry,

There definitely are oddities with the graphing in Reporting Services. I *think* it's using the Dundas charting engine (could have sworn I saw a Dundas .dll somewhere, but I could be wrong).

In any event, rather than get into everything here, I have an article coming shortly that discuss a lot of the goofy-ness, as well as work arounds.

Not much of answer, but it would be a LENGTHY post to get into everything.

J.

r@st@f@R|@n Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 531 More actions · Answer 2

Hi James,

Maybe when the article is out, u can let us know where can we get it

i guess the article would be a great help.....

thanks

AMS-171757 Valued Member Points: 69 More actions · Answer 3

One thing that might help: Click on the chart properties, and then the X-Axis tab.

The right hand column has some options, one of them is "Numeric or Time-Scale Values". Clicking that did a pretty good job of paring down the stacked labels!