Bar Chart legend value Issue and design direction

Hello,

Attached is a chart that I'm trying to create using BIRT. Firstly I cannot get the legend value to show the total for each series. The value is always zero. See red circles in attached. Should the legend value work in this way?

Secondly I would like to remove the x-axis prefixes community and metropolitan and add to the chart something like the category sections as shown circled in green. Can this be done or can some other approach be recommended?

Further is it possible to to get a grand total of all the series in the Chart?

Thanks.

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stuart

Any ideas. Thanks.

mwilliams

Hi Stuart,

What are you doing to get the series total for the legend? What script are you using?

As for the labeled grouping, I don't think there is a way to do this. That's what the coloring in the legend is for. I could be wrong though, but I don't know of a way.

stuart

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply. I'm not actually using a script - I have just ticked the option Show Value in the legend panel assuming (incorrectly) that this would give a total for the series. Do you have a script example of this and direction of where I would put the script in the rptdesign file?

I was also wanting to display a total of both the series shown in the chart. Is this also possible?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

mwilliams

Stuart,

I don't have an example of that readily available. I would assume you'll have to figure totals outside of the chart in your table or in your dataSet if you're not displaying the data in a table, set them to persistent global variables, and then call them in the chart's OnRender script. I can probably make an example if you are unable to get it. Let me know.

As for displaying the series total in the chart, I'd have to look into that, but I don't know of a way off the top of my head.