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Gnanasekar
Helper III
9 years ago

Chart colours

Hi All,

 

Is it possible to use categorical variables such as (Colour/Department) etc.. to colour the simple bar and column charts)?
For e.g. if i have a sales by product chart, and each product belongs to a particular department.
Can i create a column chart which shows the sales by product and a colour coding based on the department?

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi

     

      You can achieve that by using legend. Check the below screenshot. Let me know if you need some other logic.

    • Gnanasekar's avatar
      Gnanasekar
      Helper III
      9 years ago

      Hi Anonymous and v-ljerr-msft

      When i  use the department as legend, there is a bar corresponding to each department for every product. ie, there are 3 bars corresponding to A,B,C for every product. We will be having more than 100 products and so the bars will be displayed like lines.

      Sales is calculated as the MRP*Qty.

       

       

      By Gnanasekar

  • v-ljerr-msft's avatar
    v-ljerr-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi Gnanasekar,

     

    Have you tried the solution provided by Anonymous above? Does it work in your scenario? If it works could you accept it as solution to close this thread?

     

    If you still have any question on this issue, feel free to post here. :smileyhappy:

     

    Regards