
Tips Recipes Brio 2002
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Section Type: Report section
Tip Name: Multi-Line Bar Chart
Purpose / Use: To display a Bar-Line Chart that has 1 bar and multiple lines.
Sample File: Multi-line bar chart.bqy
Steps to Produce: Create a report section with no groups, embed a specially formatted bar-
line chart and design a custom chart legend in the report section.
The challenge stems from the fact that bar-line charts work with pairs of values, one being a bar
and one being a line. The trick is getting the chart and its legend to display only the first value as
a bar and all others as lines.
1) In the Results section, create a computed item named “Dummy” with a formula of 0.
2) Add a new chart and change its chart type to be a bar-line chart by selecting the last item in
the chart type pulldown.
3) Drag the field to be displayed as a bar into the Outliner as the first item in the Y-Facts area.
4) Drag the field to be displayed as the first line into the Outliner as the next item in the Y-
Facts area.
5) Create subsequent bar-line groupings by dragging the Dummy field as the bar (with a
value of zero) and the next line-oriented field as its bar-line group partner. Your chart
should now look like this:
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