Applying Bar Graphs

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Applying Bar Graphs

Vertical or horizontal bar graphs highlight relationships and trends among data.

Vertical Bar Graph. You can apply a vertical bar graph to report columns associated with an ACROSS sort field. The report output displays a vertical bar graph in a new row above the associated data values as shown in the following image.

Bar graphs that project above the zero line represent positive values, while bar graphs that project below the zero line represent negative values.

Horizontal Bar Graph. You can apply a horizontal bar graph to report columns. The report output displays a horizontal bar graph in a new column to the right of the associated data values as shown in the following image.

Bar graphs that project to the right of the zero line represent positive values, while bar graphs that project to the left of the zero line represent negative values.

The length of each vertical or horizontal bar graph is proportional to the magnitude of its associated data value. The shortest bar graph appears for the value with the minimum magnitude, the longest bar graph for the value with the maximum magnitude, and bar graphs of varying length appear for each value within the minimum-maximum magnitude range. Notice in the figure that a value of 147,490.00 produces a longer horizontal bar graph than a value of 50,153.00. Therefore, a complete row of vertical bar graphs or a complete column of horizontal bar graphs forms a bar chart.

You can only apply data visualization bar graphs to numeric report columns (integer, decimal, floating point single-precision, floating point double-precision, and packed). Bar graphs applied to alphanumeric, date, or text field formats are ignored.

You can display data visualization bar graphs in OLAP-enabled HTML reports, where bar graphs are applied to Measures.

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