Crystal Xcelsius - Design suggestion

from OLA:
I need some hints how to design a chart in a clever way. Have a look at this link. http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u110/Olasa/M2000Simulator.swf The Excel logic is there but the design is terrible. You can test to change the numbers and see the graf move. I'm looking for something like Andy Pope's Charts with variable width bars. http://www.andypope.info/charts/colwidth2.htm AfaIk, no chart can do this. But there may be other ways? //Ola

Hi Ola,
I appears as if you are trying to display data with two parameters. The column chart only displays one parameter and there is currently no way to dynamically set a column's width in a column chart.
I would suggest looking at a multi-parameter chart such as the XY or Bubble chart.
Good luck.

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