Financial Reporting Line Chart - disable #missing or #zero values
I need some help regarding the line chart in financial reporting. I want to create a line chart for actual and forecast-values. The underlying Grid contains following values:
actual-jan = 100
actual-feb = 121
actual-march = 119
actual-april to actual-dec = #missing
forecast-jan = 100
forecast-feb = 121
forecast-march = 119
forecast-april to forecast-dec = 125
In the line chart I get two lines, one for actual and one for forecast. Now my Problem is that the actual line has to stop with the march-value but it moves forward till december on the zero level.
Has anyone an idea how to get the line stopped at march?
kind regards
kai
Supressing or replacing zeroes does not help, the chart still drops to zero for future periods.
I created an extra column in my grid. In this column i used a formula that says if column a (current year) is greater than zero, show column a numbers, if not, show the number from the row above. I have separate reports for debits and credits, if you are OK with showing negative numbers, just adjust the formula. What my new column does is forecasts a straight line for all future periods for the current year. It is not the exact preferred result, but it keeps the scale appropriate and with a little education almost every executive has accepted it.
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