Creating Label Aliases for Y Axis Values

JBranigan

Hi,

I'm new to using the BIRT APIs and am having some trouble. I have a dataset with time series information. The values in the series are assigned numeric representations of what is to the user a set of logical states.

Example {0=OK, 1=BAD, 2=SENSOR READ ERROR, etc...}

Right now, I'm plotting the data with the x-axis as the time series and the Y axis as the numeric values. I'd really like to change the labels on the Y axis to show the aliased strings that the end user understands(OK,BAD,SENSOR READ ERROR, etc...} instead of 0,1,2...

I've done quite a lot of experimenting, web searching and have looked in the BIRT books that I have, but haven't found a code snippet to allow this to happen.

My questions are: Is what I'm trying to do possible, and if so what is the snippet of code to associate a label with a particular value in a series.

Thanks in advance for the help,

James

Virgil Dodson

Hi James,

You could look into creating a Computed Column for your Data Set that is an expression. You could also put the data onto a Table on the report, then use the Mapping feature of the table.