October 30, 201510 yr I am doing a column chart with 6 fields that are in the same record, how can I give each field, bar, a different label on the horizontal axis? Lets say I have sales for 6 years in the same record. 2009 $900 2010 $1000 2011 $1100 2012 $1200 2013 $1300 2014 $1400 I would like to label each of the amounts with the associated year.
October 30, 201510 yr First thing: you should not have sales for 6 years in the same record. They should be in 6 separate records, with fields for Year and Amount. Next, you did not tell us where are the labels supposed to come from. Surely you don't have a field named "2009"? Edited October 30, 201510 yr by comment
October 31, 201510 yr Author I was originally going to set up another table, but in this application it just seemed easier to put the fields in the same record. There shouldn't be that many records in the database and there won't be more than 6 years. It was just easier to move fields around on the screen to configure The labels will be the contents of the field year 0, year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4 and year 5.
October 31, 201510 yr it just seemed easier to put the fields in the same record. It's not easier. You have to do everything 6 times. And there are things you cannot do at all with this arrangement. Anyway, if you have fields for the labels, you just need to list them in a return-separated list (same as the values): List ( year 0 ; year 1 ; year 2 ; year 3 ; year 4 ; year 5 )
October 31, 201510 yr Author I placed the List (year 0; year 1 ; year 2 ; year 3 ; year 4 ; year 5 ; year 6) in the Data entry for the x-axis and it looks like it is showing up as a label for one of the Y series, all 6 years are one label for one data series. For the y axis, I have 6 series, one for each year. Thanks for the help.
October 31, 201510 yr For the y axis, I have 6 series, one for each year. I am not sure I follow your description fully, but that doesn't sound right. If you have 6 values, one for each year, then you have only one data series - and it should be calculated the same way as the labels, i.e: List ( Value 0 ; Value 1 ; Value 2 ; Value 3 ; Value 4 ; Value 5 )
October 31, 201510 yr Author Forgot to select "delimited data", thanks. You mentioned "that there are things you cannot do at all with this arrangement," what are some of those things?
November 1, 201510 yr 23 hours ago, laguna92651 said: You mentioned "that there are things you cannot do at all with this arrangement," what are some of those things? For example, you cannot produce a report like this: 2012 • Product B: 131 • Product A: 119 • Product C: 1052013 • Product A: 142 • Product B: 129 • Product C: 1122014 • Product A: 149 • Product C: 132 • Product B: 127
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