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  • Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:00 PM
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    Hi,

    I am aware of that this question could better be asked in Excel or Reporting Services forums. But I would need to explain a lot more and so I hope, that someone has already had a similar request and can tell me how to solve (or that it is not possible at all).

    I have a project custom field with look up table, I use a cube to create my report.
    I need to create a chart report with following requirements:
    - Actual Work as stacked column (color change by project enterprise field value)
    - Baseline Work as stacked column (color change by project enterprise field value)
    - Baseline Work and Actual Work next to each other, x axis is time
    - A line above these columns reflecting capacity

    In Excel (2007+) I had been successful to get both stacked columns next to each other, but I can’t add capacity line, since this value is also splitted into my project category.
    In Reporting Services (2005+) I can get the capacity line as I want to have it, but I need to decide if I want to see actual+baseline work together in one stacked column or next to each other.

    I see the reason for this request, so I hope someone was already asked a similar question. However I am not sure if it possible at all. Is there any experience on something like that?

    Thanks in advance!
    Barbara

     

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  • Thursday, 29 July 2010 8:06 PM
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    Hi Barbara,

    I don't have a good answer for this - but one possibilty might be to pull the required data into different sheets in Excel, and then produce a consolidated graph by reference to the other sheets, rather than trying to do it all in one step?  Someone smarter than me might have a better answer.

    Best regards,

    Brian.

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  • Friday, 30 July 2010 11:01 AM
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    Hi Brian,

    thanks, I will give it a try.

    Regards
    Barbara

     
  • Friday, 30 July 2010 8:13 PM
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    Hi Brian,

    sorry for unmarking as answer. There are some people not reading answered questions and I hope that I will get some additional ideas during next week. I will mark as answer if nothing else happens in a few days.

    Regards
    Barbara

     
  • Monday, 2 August 2010 5:08 PM
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    No problem Barbara.  I'd also like to see ideas from others.

    Best regards,

    Brian.

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  • Monday, 2 August 2010 6:14 PM
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    This might work, if I understand the request properly:
     
     
     
     
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  • Monday, 2 August 2010 6:16 PM
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    ...although you might need to create a column to total Capacity across Enterprise
    Project Type (assuming I understand the question).
     
     
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  • Wednesday, 4 August 2010 7:44 AM
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    Hi Andrew,

    thank you for your idea. English is not my native language, so I think I could not explain what I want to achieve. Maybe I only don't understand what can be done with these horizontal lines? Here is a screenshot - I faked it with an image program. I am able to display actual work and baseline work as I want to. But I couldn't get the capacity line in there so far.

    Image and video hosting by TinyPic

    I have tried to do as Brian suggested, but I am also not successful with his idea.

    Thanks
    Barbara

     

     
  • Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:52 PM
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    How do you embed the picture?  I haven't been able to figure out how to do that.

    I still think that would work.  Try this:

    1) Right click on the chart, and Select Data

    2) Add the Capacity data to the chart.  It will probably show up as a bar on top of the other bars.

    3) Left click on Capacity in the Legend.  Select Change Series Chart Type

    4) Set to Line Graph

     

     
  • Wednesday, 4 August 2010 1:12 PM
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    Hi Andrew,

    I have searched a lot this morning, to get that picture in there. ;-) I uploaded at http://www.tinypic.com/, that gave me some html string I put here in HTML editor.

    What you described was one of my first tests. If I want to have actual and baseline work next to each other as stacked columns, I am only able to change to chart type for each project category, not for my measures. My legend are the project categories, not actual/baseline/capacity.

    Moreover it is not possible to add additional measures to the chart. Using a pivot table as base for a chart seems to mean to take this one and nothing else.

    If I move "Summary: Values" to legends (no idea if I translated that to the Microsoft term?), I loose my actuals and baseline values next to each other.

    Thanks a lot!
    Barbara

     
  • Wednesday, 4 August 2010 3:47 PM
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    Hmmm....then not sure without the file in front of me.  Good luck....
     
  • Wednesday, 4 August 2010 7:12 PM
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    Hi Andrew,

    thanks a lot for support and trying. I think I will give it up, if I don't find a solution until next weekend. I have tried any checkbox and option I could find, seems that it is a limitation of Excel. But at least I do now know the ribbon of Excel quite good. ;-) It is true what I have read in a blog recently: Prepare for Project Server 2010: Go back to Excel school.

    Thank you!
    Barbara

     
  • Friday, 6 August 2010 10:56 AM
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    I gave up - seems it is not possible.

    Thanks to both of you!
    Barbara