I am trying to build a chart comparing Actual and Budgeted expenses per Department. I created GI that has columns Department, Budget Amount and Actual Amount.
Any chart type can show either of these amounts.
Is there a way to show both amounts per Department on the same chart?
Thank you.
I did not find a way to add a second independent value because there is only a single value field in chart configuration.
It is however possible to have a breakdown of the value. In chart design mode, edit the chart and try the Series Legend field.
For example, I started with this chart that shows Activity Count per Sales Person:
And I added a breakdown per activity Status in the Legend field:
This fulfills the requirement to have multiple lines in the chart but each line is still showing an aggregate value on the same Activity Count All field.
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I am creating a monthly excel report with dynamic charts.
Let's say the table is about Products Sold in that month. Since some products might not have been sold, I want to omit them in the graph. Hence I have created a dynamic graph by using the OFFSET formula. This is all good with generating the graph with the standard data labels.
However, I would also like the data labels to be in custom format, i.e displaying both number of units sold as well as the % of total units sold that month like this [200 (28%)]
The only method I know to apply custom data labels is linking individual data labels to the excel cells. But this won't work with dynamic chart as not all rows of the data is present in the graph.
Please help, thank you in advance.
I have a report with 2 pie charts, giving sales data for product groups. Running a dataset from an OLAP cube.
I want to be able to select 2 different dates for each chart.
Example; Someone wants to compare November sales to the previous month. So one chart to display October, one to display November. Or they might want to see how Jan/Feb/Mar compare to Apr/May/Jun.
Can this be done from the same dataset, or do I need to point each chart to a separate dataset?
If the dataset returns the data for both months, you could add filters to each chart to show the appropriate one. However, it sounds like you'd want this to be more dynamic.
I would suggest creating two separate datasets, each with a month parameter. This will allow the user to select any combination of two months. The charts would simply point to their respective dataset. You shouldn't incur a noticeable performance hit either way.
I'm using Excel 2010.
I have a data set of widgets made by person by period. I created a calculated field that shows each person's widgets made as a percentage of the total for each period.
I would like to now show the change in that "percent of total" from period to period. That is to say, I want to see how each person's percentage of the total widgets made has change from the previous period. It's a calculation on a calculation and perhaps it's just wishful thinking that Excel supports this, but it would be great if it did.
Can anyone confirm if this is possible and if so, how would I approach it? I've been looking into creating a custom Calculated Field, but I don't see how to do percent to total or difference from in those (perhaps because it would be redundant?)
I am creating a sales incentive model report. I am having base salary and commission rate as a parameter . I need to display base salary and commission as a stacked bar chart which is nothing but compensation(sales*commission rate/100+base salary).The graph has to change based on the above two parameters. I am getting compensation as a single graph but I want to achieve like below link base salary mirrored with commission.
For the reference please check the below link.In the link please scroll down and go to "what if" analysis" tab.Check the second graph as I exactly want to achieve.
http://www.tableau.com/solutions/sales-reporting-and-analytics#
Kindly help me in creating this report
Thank You
For a chart in Cognos to work stacked, you have to have a single measure. To achieve this in a cube, setup a 'Salary' with a Dimension 'Salary Type' with two types, Base and Commission. When setting up your chart, select stacked bar chart, and set up the Salary Type with the Salary below it:
Salary Type
Salary
To achive this via queries (not using a cube) you need to duplicate your query. Create a calculated Measure 'Salary' and another measure 'Salary Type'. In one query set Salary Type to '"Base Salary"' and set the Salary = [Base Salary]. In the second query set Salary Type = 'Commission' and set the Salary = [Commission].
Now union the two queries together into a final third query, which you plug into your chart.
I have a list (30+) of users with the number of times those users were active per month in my system. I'm using an Excel chart to show which users have been consistently active over time. About one third of the users come consistently (several times a month) while others come one month and not another.
Unfortunately since I have 30+ users, the colors in the Excel chart are difficult to distinguish from one another. What I was thinking to remedy this was to only show the top 10 (or 15) users and group the others into an "others" or "catch-all" bucket and still shows it in the chart.
A sample image of the chart:
What's the best way to do this?
Add a column that differentiates 'Active' from 'Non-active'. In the sample I had to create overall B and C were the most active so I populated D2 down with:
=IF(OR(B2="B",B2="C"),"Active","Non-active")
Adjust the formula if that distinction is made on a month by month basis. Create a Stacked Column PivotChart and in the PivotTable move the 'Active' together as necessary. Select each of the Non-active series (here only two for illustration) in the chart and apply the same colour fill to all.