I'm trying to create a pie chart in Cognos BI that shows complete labels. I can't figure out how to do this. I have included an image that shows how the current report truncates the labels and places three dots (...) at the end of each label. I have a couple questions:
Can what I want to do be accomplished?
Why does every label end with "..." and can they be eliminated?
Update: I'm running Cognos BI 10.1.1
I don't think you you can absolutely prevent it. But you can make the text longer. In your chart, select the label. In the properties, under general, you'll see Text Truncation. Click the ellipse by it. It's probably set to the default of automatic. Change it to manual, and you can put in whatever number of characters you want it to show.
Keep in mind that this can end up giving you some kind of funky looking charts. The hover will show the full value of the column if you need to be able to see it on demand.
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I have long strings as labels which is the full identifier of each deployment. How do I increase the area that the strings occupy and reduce the area for the bar graphs in Grafana.
After many attempts, this is the closest that I have come to displaying label strings in a way that is readable. Ideally a table would also be nice, but I was unable to show a table in which the labels form a column (it always took the row)
You can't change that size. I would rather focus how to make labels shorter. (I would say that "max_Sum/" is not necessary there)
IMHO: the best option is to have a table panel for this - yes, you wasn't not able to achieve it, but you only need right query, result format + transformation eventually.
I have a graph that shows the ratio (count) of payable vs. processed words among the total words on stacked bars. I would also like to display the same ratio in percentages in lines overlapping the bars.
At the moment I have them in two separate graphs, but I want to merge them so that it takes less space in my dashboard view. I am unable to select the dual combination view as it requires two measures and even though I keep trying to cmd+click+drag the percentage measure pill to my marks, it's only changing the calculations in the bars but not allowing me to select the dual combination view.
Since the percentages are basically the ratio of the green/total in the bars, I don't think I need any complicated configurations for displaying it, however, I am also failing to achieve what I want.
Could you please tell me how to do this visualization?
Edit: I noticed that the reason I couldn't generate the dual combination view was that I had three date pills (year, quarter, month), and by removing two of them, I'm able to generate the dual combination view, but it's far from what I'm looking for as it's only splitting the stacked bar into bar+line.
Neeku, I certainly understand the desire to minimize "real estate" in your dashboard. If I understand your needs correctly, I believe that overlaying a transparent-background chart over the first chart might meet your needs, if a dual-axis chart doesn't work for you (for example, if you wanted to overlay a line chart on a column chart that is itself already dual axis).
By way of example, here is a simple Sample Superstore dashboard with a line chart on top and a stacked column at the bottom.
simple dashboard
Change the line chart to "Floating"
Size it to fit over your column chart and change the background to transparent by clicking anywhere in the line chart and select "Format"
...Format Shading
...and "None" for the color selection
Your line chart is now an overlay, but it's pretty messy.
Click on the line chart and hide field labels,
...turn off "Show Header" for each pill in the line chart
Clean things up and it should look better:
Note: one big issue with this approach is that you will not be able to click to select chart elements of the underlying chart.
Is there a way to display color legend on the top left side of a chart .
I have 4 charts in a tableau dashboard and if i display all the legends for all the 4 charts on the bottom it looks busy so I want to include the legends in the charts.
Please help me on this with details steps.
What you want is to make the "legend" a floating object instead of the default tiled object.
To achieve this; You can hold down the Shift key, then drag the legend using the left mouse button while still holding down the Shift key. Drop the legend wherever you wish on the dashboard. Make sure you only release the Shift key after you have dropped the legend at your desired destination.
Warning: Depending on the size of the dashboard you selected, floating objects move around when end users view your dashboard on a device with different screen resolution. To avoid this you can use the "Exactly" size option and define a size range which suits your needs.
To include legends on top left Side of the chart.
Follow steps here as under:
Step1:
Select legends, Right Click on legends top part and select floating and place inside the chart on the top part below heading of Graph as :
So you can follow above steps to add legends in all 4 charts.
Output will look like as
So in this way your legends will not be clumsy and you can describe visualization in a better manner.
I have created a chart with 2 axes that acts as a panel chart (see image)
As a panel chart I only want to show the portions of the relevant y-axes to the chart next to them. For example, for the right-most y-axis I used a custom number format to exclude anything less than 0:
_(* #,##0_);_("";_(* 0??_);_(#_)
But for the left most y-axis, I'm stuck. I want to show -400 to positive 400. I've tried 2 different options, but neither is producing the desired effect.
[<0](#,##0);[>500000000]"";#,##0_)
[<0](#,##0);[<500000000]#,##0_);""
Here is the result I'm looking for:
I learned something new today (and a bit weird) regarding formats and chart axes
After some experimenting, this is what I ended up using:
[White][>500]_(#,##0_);(#,##0);0;
The odd part: When you change the Display Units of the axis (for me, millions), then the formatting no longer recognizes the original amount (500,000,000).
Once I figured that out, I was able to work out the solution.
So, I have a kind of "customized bar chart" here. Forgive my lack of drawing skills, I just slapped this together in MS Paint.
The idea is that we have a patient who is on a certain medication. The chart has the following attributes:
Each black line represents a visit date (so, the horizontal axis is a date series).
The chart should have a unique indicator for start date, end date, and when the patient paused and resumed taking the medication.
Each visit date (black line) should have a dosage amount attached to it. This does not have to be a symbol, it can be a value (e.g., 2400mg, 4800, etc).
It's sort of a cross between a Gantt chart and a bar chart, but is neither of the two specifically. There are start and end dates, with a bar-like representation across a time period, but there could be potential gaps between pause and resume dates as well.
Is a chart like this even possible in BIRT, or does it require advanced customization?
Let me know if you need anything clarified.
What you should be able to do is build a table for each medication, where the columns are the doses, and dynamically change the width of the columns. Some quick research indicates adjusting the column width in a table can be challenging but here is question about doing it to a crosstab
The easiest way might be to leave the column widths floating, and add characters (same color as background so they don't display). The characters are added based on time between visits and will cause the column widths to change accordingly. You can use highlights to change the background code based on JavaScript.
You may want to have a look at d3. It enables highly customizable chart.
For example, https://vida.io/documents/ZCzewTza4ZSzMWSBG.
BIRT 4.3 has support for D3.