Graphs: Label Sorting

Hi all,
New 11g user here.
I have the following columns in my report:
Date | Measure | Tag
Jun 5 | 200 | 2
Jun 6 | 100 | 2
Jun 7 | 250 | 1
I want to create a graph where in Date is on the x-axis, and Measure is on the y-axis (Tag is excluded). However, I want the order of the labels be based on the Tag first then the date.
So the x-axis would look like this:
Jun 7 - Jun 5 - Jun 6
I tried adding the sort on the column itself (in Criteria), but it only sorts the Date.
Help on this, please.
Thank you.

to do sorting on TAG you have to include the TAG into your chart. Put sort order on this column and hide it in the criteria tab and then try adding it on the X axis and see if it work.
Best of Luck,
Kashi

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I'm working on a project for myself, that could go commercial if it gets as good as I'm hoping it will. This application (which I'm calling Truck Manager) will manage income and expenses, help plan trips, track trip/load information and do the US-MCSA/DOT regulated Driver's Daily Log. This log is a line graph that runs from midnight to midnight and has four lines: (1) Off Duty; (2) Sleeper Berth; (3) On Duty, Driving; and (4) On Duty, Not Driving. If anyone needs to see a paper form of this log book, just ask and I'll scan in one of my copies and post.
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06:15 until 08:00 == on duty, driving to customer to be loaded
08:00 until 08:15 == on duty, not driving: being loaded (only required to log 15 minutes for this)
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15:15 until 16:00 == off duty, (still being unloaded)
16:00 until 20:00 == on duty, driving (heading home)
20:00 until midnight == sleeper (ran out of hours)
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<pre>
1. -----------------------| |---| |---| |---|
2. | | | | | | | |----------------
3. | -------| | |------------| |---------| | |----------------|
4. |-| |-| |-|
</pre>
Though the above graph is crappy, it should give the idea of what needs to be done. At each change of status (i.e., from off duty to on duty, not driving) there must be a vertical line between the statuses, not going above and below like in the example above. Then, once the status changes again, the horizontal line needs to be drawn from the vertical line of the last status change to the time of the new status change and then the vertical line to the new status.
The way the driver's daily log works is like this...When I come on duty, I am required to do a pre-trip inspection of my truck/trailer, which requires 15 minutes on duty, not driving, so I log that all at once, including the vertical line up to the 3rd line of the graph, which is on duty, driving. Then, in this example, I drive for 1.75 hours, until I arrive at my pick-up. Once I get there, I draw the horizontal line on line 3 of the graph, the vertical line down to line 4 (on duty, not driving), the 15-minute horizontal line and the vertical line up to line 1 (off duty). When I get ready to leave the pick-up after I am loaded, I draw the horizontal line across line 1, the vertical line down to line 3 and then drive until I stop.
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b. A driver may not drive for more than 11 hours, without a 10-hour break, provided the 14-hour rule is obeyed.
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Thank you all for your assistance. If you would like a better idea of what the daily log graph looks like, you can run the class below.
Cheers,
Sean
<pre>
* DriverLog.java: Driver's Daily Log entry screen. By completing the small form at the bottom of
* dialog, the system will automatically update your log.
* Created on Sep 30, 2010, 2:03:18 PM
package net.pekinsoft.trkmgr.gui;
import java.awt.BasicStroke;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
* @author Sean Carrick
public class DriverLog extends javax.swing.JFrame {
// Private class-level variables.
* @code{java.awt.Graphics2D} object that we will use for drawing on our
* view port, which is a @code{javax.swing.JPanel} on our form. This view
* port will hold our driver's log graph that shows the driver's status at
* different times of the day based upon the data the driver provides.
private Graphics2D canvas;
* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the starting x, y coordinates
* for the driver's daily log off duty line.
private Point offDutyStartPoint;
* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the ending x, y coordinates
* for the driver's daily log off duty line.
private Point offDutyEndingPoint;
* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the starting x, y coordinates
* for the driver's daily log sleeper berth line.
private Point sleeperStartPoint;
* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the ending x, y coordinates
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* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the starting x, y coordinates
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* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the start x, y coordinates
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private Point notDrivingStartPoint;
* @code{java.awt.geom.Point} object to hold the ending x, y coordinates
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private Point notDrivingEndingPoint;
* @code{int} that holds the number of 15-minute blocks in a 24-hour period.
private static final int qtrHourBlocks = (24 * 60) / 15;
/** Creates new form DriverLog */
public DriverLog() {
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initComponents();
// Center the window on the screen.
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int winX = (tk.getScreenSize().width - getWidth()) / 2;
int winY = (tk.getScreenSize().height - getHeight()) / 2;
setLocation(winX, winY);
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canvas = (Graphics2D) viewPort.getGraphics();
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int y = qtr + 20;
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paint();
/** This method is called from within the constructor to
* initialize the form.
* WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
* always regenerated by the Form Editor.
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
private void initComponents() {
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viewPort = new javax.swing.JPanel();
lblStatusChange = new javax.swing.JLabel();
txtStatusChange = new javax.swing.JFormattedTextField();
rbtnOffDuty = new javax.swing.JRadioButton();
rbtnSleeper = new javax.swing.JRadioButton();
rbtnDriving = new javax.swing.JRadioButton();
rbtnNotDriving = new javax.swing.JRadioButton();
btnUpdate = new javax.swing.JButton();
lblComment = new javax.swing.JLabel();
txtComment = new javax.swing.JTextField();
lblLocation = new javax.swing.JLabel();
txtLocation = new javax.swing.JTextField();
setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
setTitle("Driver's Daily Log");
setAlwaysOnTop(true);
setResizable(false);
addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter() {
public void windowOpened(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
formWindowOpened(evt);
addWindowStateListener(new java.awt.event.WindowStateListener() {
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viewPort.setLayout(viewPortLayout);
viewPortLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
viewPortLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGap(0, 674, Short.MAX_VALUE)
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lblStatusChange.setText("Status Change Time:");
txtStatusChange.setFormatterFactory(new javax.swing.text.DefaultFormatterFactory(
new javax.swing.text.DateFormatter(new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm"))));
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rbtnOffDuty.setText("Off Duty");
bgrpStatus.add(rbtnSleeper);
rbtnSleeper.setText("Sleeper");
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rbtnDriving.setText("Driving");
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paint();
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private void paint() {
drawOutline();
* @code{net.pekinsoft.gui.DriverLog.drawOutline()} function handles the
* rendering of the driver's daily log grid outline only.
private void drawOutline() {
// Set up the starting point for our log grid's upper-left corner.
int x = 0; // 20 points down from the top.
int y = 0; // 20 points in from the left.
int offset = 28;
// Get the height and width of our log grid from the panel.
int h = 112;
int w = 671;
// Set the color of our border to Red.
canvas.setStroke(new BasicStroke(1));
canvas.setPaint(Color.BLACK);
// Draw our log graph outline.
canvas.drawRect(x, y, w, h);
// Draw our log's horizontal lines.
for ( int i = 1; i < 5; i++ ) {
canvas.drawLine(x, y + (i * offset), w + offset, y + (i * offset));
// Draw our log's hour lines.
for ( int i = 1; i < 24; i++ ) {
canvas.drawLine(x + (i * offset), 0, x + (i * offset), 112);
// Draw our log's 30-minute ticks.
for ( int i = 1; i < 48; i++ ) {
for ( int j = 0; j < 5; j++ ) {
canvas.drawLine(x + (i * (offset / 2)), y + (j * offset),
x + (i * (offset / 2)), (y + (j * offset) + 10));
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for ( int i = 1; i < 96; i++ ) {
for ( int j = 0; j < 5; j++ ) {
canvas.drawLine(x + (i * (offset / 4)), y + (j * offset),
x + (i * (offset / 4)), (y + (j * offset) + 5));
canvas.drawLine(0, 112, 0, 122);
canvas.drawLine(w, 112, w, 122);
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java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new DriverLog().setVisible(true);
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private javax.swing.JButton btnUpdate;
private javax.swing.JLabel lblComment;
private javax.swing.JLabel lblLocation;
private javax.swing.JLabel lblStatusChange;
private javax.swing.JRadioButton rbtnDriving;
private javax.swing.JRadioButton rbtnNotDriving;
private javax.swing.JRadioButton rbtnOffDuty;
private javax.swing.JRadioButton rbtnSleeper;
private javax.swing.JTextField txtComment;
private javax.swing.JTextField txtLocation;
private javax.swing.JFormattedTextField txtStatusChange;
private javax.swing.JPanel viewPort;
// End of variables declaration
</pre>
Edited by: 799477 on Oct 1, 2010 2:42 PM

<blockquote>Sean, I checked your code and seen that package net.pekinsoft..., is this an Illinois Company by any chance?</blockquote>
Yes, this is a company that I have tried (unsuccessfully) to start in central Illinois...I'm guessing that the "Pekin" part gave it away.
<blockquote>Thanks for posting the DB TABLE -- we'll need that later, plus I wanted to see if you would respond.</blockquote>
Not a problem on the DB table. Why wouldn't I respond...I want and NEED help here... ;-)
<blockquote>I have a few questions but don't want to complicate your line of thinking, so I'll just describe generally how I have approached a big project like this. </blockquote>
I will answer them the best that I can.
<blockquote>For one thing, I do not start with a GUI or even consider what I want it to look like... I start with the data, and how that data is broken down into different classes, and then how those classes come together to form an Object Hierarchy. I have and do maintain a large MySQL database myself with 18 TABLES. Some of the TABLES hold very little information which I use as static final information. As a matter of fact, one of those TABLES is called status and contains 5 fields. This status TABLE is storing 7 rows of information because I have 7 different levels. The fields in my status TABLE are status_id, status_type, status_title, status_desc, and status_icon. This means I will have 7 icons to represent the different status levels, a description, a title, a type (maybe yours could be ON or OFF duty for example), and the ID of the status.
Another thing at this stage of development is that I don't make up my mind concretely about any of the data or how the data will fit together. I want to remain as flexible as possible, so that as my design develops, the design allows for the addition or subtraction of data and different data types to be created. In other words, I completely atomize all structure, associations, relationships, dependencies, or just anything in general that makes two or more pieces of information stick together.
At this point, all I have is a loose bag of primitive data types with no structure whatsoever. Like I just tore up a piece of paper into a hundred pieces and threw into the air letting the pieces fall where they may.
While I'm at this point, I will make decisions about which languages and platform would be the best to raise the beast. In my case, I chose to run it on the internet, so I chose MySQL to store the data, SQL to communicate to the DB, and the server uses a PHP scripting engine to spit out the HTML, also PHP lets me create OO classes very similar to a JAVA class. This is a very important step and must be made now, not later -- you don't want to do all this work only to find out that it should have been done in another language! Been there done that.
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Once I get to this point I will make FORMS for the easy entry of data. The FORMS, CLASSES and and db TABLES all mirror each other now, so the CLASSES handle all the info from FORM to DB, DB to FORM. Notice at this point I am still dealing with data and data flow, NOT the display of pretty information -- not even close.
Ok, enough about this Sean, let me know if this helps any.</blockquote>
This information was helpful, but also how I typically approach a large project.
The only problem with what you talk about above is dealing with allowing "wiggle-room" for changing the data because the data that I'm storing is codified by the federal government through the CSA-2010 laws that regulate the trucking industry. Therefore, I really don't have any wiggle-room with the data at all.
As for choosing Java over another language, I made this choice because I don't like limiting myself (or others) on what operating system they use and platform-independence is one of the best things about Java (provided you don't use any OS-specific code, which I try like hell not to do). I am a huge Linux guy, but have to use Windows to update my GPS and would like to be able to use this application no matter which OS I'm booted into. Just so you understand, I am fluent in multiple languages, including PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, C/C++, BASIC and Bash. I am also very big on OOP and always leave accessing the database to the class that holds that data (i.e., LogEntry class will access the database to store and retrieve the log data). I am also using MySQL as the database back-end, because it is the SQL server that I am most comfortable with and also has versions for various OSes. I use the mysql-connector.jar library for accessing MySQL from Java, so that's not even an issue.
As for "static final" data in the database, I do store my statuses, with the status_id numbers the same as the row number on the hard-copy Driver's Daily Log books. These records simply hold the status_id and description (i.e., 1, "Off Duty").
I believe that I've got the logic for logging an entry such as: 08:00-10:00, On Duty, Driving, status location Indianapolis, IN, comment: Tire check. This whole entry is on the same day and therefore fairly easy to graph. The type of entry that I'm having problems figuring the logic for is one where the last change of duty status was before midnight and the current change of duty status is after midnight, on the next day. For example, I typically stop for the night (my DOT 10-hour break) at 5:00 PM (17:00) and am in the sleeper across midnight, then get going at 3:00 AM (03:00). I'm having trouble figuring out how many hours to log on the current day. In the example that I just gave, I'm not getting how I can figure out when to start at midnight and when to start out at the prior status change time through code. Nothing that I try seems to work correctly and I keep getting horizontal status lines outside of my graph area.
As for what data I need to store and how I need to store it, I am very flexible, except with the daily log data, since it is federally mandated. Once I figure out the logic for actually logging the statuses and changes of status properly, I will create the class for storing and retrieving the database data...for now I'm just using hard-coded times to get the graphing logic right without the overhead of database access. Changing this code to use the data from the database will be a snap in comparison to figuring out the graphing functionality.
Thanks for your insights and assistance. I look forward to seeing what other ideas you have to share.
Sean

Graph label in Drill down graph to display only the lowest level label

Recently I have upgraded from OBIEE 10 to 11g.
Some reports have a country -> region -> branch drilldown, for which hierarchy is created in business layer of RPD. The graph, drills down from Country -> Regions -> Branches and displays the measures accordingly. But the horizontal label displays the full hierarchy , like CountryName,RegionName and Branch Name. In 10g, I used to get the Branch name only in the axis label.
I would like to display only the Region names when Country is drilled down and the branch name alone when the Region is drilled down.
Kindly help.

In 11g it is bug....
For this u should create 3 individual reports (1 for country, 2. Region, 3. Branch) and give action link one to another.
for filter make sure the required column "Is Prompted" for every detailed reports.
Pls mark if it helps
-Chinna

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Want to display data in specific order in cross tab row & in graph as shown below
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In the same order data has been retrieved from the database but when it comes to Crystal report, its reordering the data in alphabetical order as shown below due to the order set in Group option
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Please help... Itu2019s urgentu2026
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One axis on my graph is showing decimal places despiting formatting the report field to show 0 places - the graph is reading decimal places directly from the database underneath the report . Other than editing each axis label manual (or editing the original database field) does anyone know of another way I can elimate the decimal places from the graph?

That solution only works for the x-axis but not the y-axis (or the other way round, depending on whether the chart is horizontal or vertical).
The values of the y-Axis are formatted according to the default Number Formatting. If you can afford this, change the default number formatting to 0 decimal places.
Another workaround would be to create a formula. Let's say amount was your database field. Then the formula would be
ToText({AMOUNT},0)
Put that in your chart instead of the original database field.
Cheers,
Florian

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I need to make a line graph with labeled markers. So, I create a marker design with "%02" (without quotes) as label to show the values. But, if I type, for example, 6,10 into the sheet, the marker's label shows 6,1. But I need show the entire number (with all the decimals, without rounding them up or down). Could you guys help me? Thanks a lot!

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that some fields not display in the alert email.
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You can use the action “Send an Email” to achieve it, set the workflow auto start when items create or change.
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My Y scale is 1,2,3,4,5.... etc
I want to change the label to first, second etc, some kind of custom label - is it possible ?
Thanks,

Hi,
I do not think it is possible to achieve this. Graph Y-axis is a "data" axis, which means only numeric values can be shown. I don't think that "string representations" are allowed on the Y-axis.
What you could do is - graph allows upto 3 reference lines. You could create these reference lines, and in the Graph Legend, write "First", "Second" and "Third" for these lines.
See the FAQ for how to create reference lines.
Navneet.

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Hi Gurus
We've recently upgraded to 11.1.1.7 and noticed that our Publisher line charts with date on the x-axis are no longer sorting correctly i.e. May comes before March. The reason for this is because in <11.1.1.7 we have a formatted date mask (to_char) in our data model but sorted by the underlying canonical date which worked. Now in 11.1.1.7 it is no longer sorting by the data model sort but by the formatted date string therefore numeric values of 30 April sorted after 1 May.
We have tried a number of options to resolve:
1. using the canonical date and sorting on that corrects the sort problem but the default formatting used in long YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00-00:00 and not readable as our chart is showing daily totals. Changing to time-series chart can allow you to format the date but see problem 2 next...
2. Time series = yes doesn't display the chart if we have a number of entities in our series i.e. multiple lines and the interactive viewer shows a red error icon. I think this may be due to the fact that our date range is not continuous ie we have a sparse data set.
3. Workaround we used was a bar chart (our users preference is line charts) with time series = false but the date format is still long.
Any advice / suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks
Nick.

for #1: numbers does what is called a "stable" sort. Meaning that the previous sort order is preserved. i.e. do your sort in reverse order. Amount, then name, then date. Just did it with sample data and it was perfect. It keeps them in the original order, so if there is a match in name after you sort, you should see the amount still in the proper order.
#2: What in your formula isnt working? I just made a formula that did math on the columns to the left, sorted and it worked. Sorted by static data columns and the formula column. I know it was broken originally, years ago, but it seems to be working correctly now, at least in my quick test. You might have an issue if you are using formulas that refer to data on other rows or tables.
#3: yeah formatting can be a pain. But it is easier to do in the desktop program. No, you cannot get it for windows, sorry. If the formatting the only thing you need to do on the desktop side, then i dont see much tying you to it. I do 90% or more on the ipad and iphone now.
Jason

Labview Intensity Graph Vertical Axis Label

When I change the font of the vertical axis label of a Labview intensity graph, the label disappears. Is this a Labview bug or is there a way to correct the problem?

Here are those screenshots... I was a little quick to submit
- JLS
PS - of course, when you're editing the free label, it doesn't have those nasty affects, and if you group the objects (see the Free Label and Grouping screenshot) it behaves (at least cosmetically) much like a native graph label
Best,
JLS
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