Crystal 11 Stacked Area Chart Data Start Point X-Axis

I am trying to create a Stacked area chart and by default there is space between the y-axis and the first data point on the x-axis. Is there any way to eliminate this space so that the first data point appears directly on the y-axis?

I found the answer to my question. Uncheck the box "Value Axis Crosses Between Groups" in the "Group (X) Axis Settings" dialog box.
Edited by: Chuck Gebhardt on Oct 14, 2011 12:28 AM

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Stacked area chart with start and end dates

Hi,
I'm trying to create a stacked area chart from values that have a start date and an end date. I'd like the area to be drawn as a sum of the values at each x-axis date interval. So if I have data like:
Start
End
Value
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100
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200
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Is this possible without calculating the sums for each date beforehand?

Hi Erba,
According to your description, it seems that you need add Start and End fields with the same level (without group relationship) to the x-axis in stacked area chart. As per my understanding, we couldn’t add multiple fields in one group at the same level.
So in order to work around this issue, we can modify the dataset to combine the Start and End field into one filed, then add the new filed to x-axis. For more details, please refer to the steps below:
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from table_name
union
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from table_name
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=runningvalue(Fields!vlaue.Value,sum,"DataSet_name")
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The following screenshot is for your reference:
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Date Axis Stacked Area Charts

Hi,
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Problem with Stacked area chart

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I'm working on delivery data according to month having input(combo) as the year. I'm trying to display the data in percentages in Stacked area chart having series as ontime delivery, 1 week late, 2 weeks late,........5 weeks late and category labels as months. The problem is when I take the Preview of data I get to see the data for ontime, 1 week , 2 week as it should be but when I hover the mouse over the 2 weeks data area mouse over values shows 5 weeks data(0 %) where as in reality the colored area belongs to 2 weeks data. I tried to delete 5 weeks series data and now it shows as 4 weeks data.
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>
Raghavendra Gadhamsetty wrote:
> Did you try adding the formula year(datefield) in X axis by removing the existing datefield?
>
> Regards,
> Raghavendra
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Kind Regards,
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[http://www.recrystallize.com/merchant/threedgraphics/CRChart.htm|http://www.recrystallize.com/merchant/threedgraphics/CRChart.htm]

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