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Making stacked and negative bar charts

The bar chart has a few view types:

Normal view type

A normal bar chart looks like this :

The key features of it are :

  • The bars are spread across the chart with equal height
  • The chart starts from -2 and ends in 10 . All the bars start at the lowest point , -2.

Negative view Type

The negative view type looks like this :

The key features of it are :

  • The bars are spread across the chart with equal height
  • All the bars start from 0. Negative bars go downward , Positive bars go upwards

Stacked View Type

The stacked view type looks like this:

The key feature of it is that the bars are stacked one on top of the other. When using the staked view , you may get the following warning :

This means that bar values are not entered correctly. Notice that in a stacked bar , it is essential that each category has larger value then the previous category for each group. The example above is created using the following values for example:

Notice that each column is sorted in an ascending order . the row order does not matter. This is also important when feeding the bar chart data from script:

bar.DataSource.SetValue("Category 1","Group 1", 1.0);
bar.DataSource.SetValue("Category 2","Group 1", 3.0);
bar.DataSource.SetValue("Category 3","Group 1", 7.0);