Help: Column Chart Display Issue

Post Author: ermiller
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
I have a chart that displays its data correctly 11 out of 12 times...and I can't seem to get the last one to work correctly. Here's the issue:
I have a table of data that looks like this:
REGION                                   GAIN                           LOSS                      NET
ALL                                           =SUM(BELOW)          =SUM(BELOW)       =SUM(BELOW)
REGION 1                                  10                               (1)                          9
REGION 2                                  20                               (2)                          18
REGION 3                                  30                               (7)                          23
REGION 4                                  40                               (0)                          40
I have a "Data Display" area that has the following formulas in it:
CRITERIA                                   GAIN                           LOSS                    NET
[USER INPUT]                           =VLOOKUP([USER INPUT],[TABLE ABOVE],0,[2,3,4 FOR EACH COLUMN])
If the user enters 'REGION 1', 'REGION 2', 'REGION 4, or 'REGION 4', the data is displayed in the column chart perfectly. However, if the user selects 'ALL', the process doesn't work and displays 0s in each of the columns above.
Does any one have any ideas on how to fix that issue or what could be causing it in the first place? I just noticed that the same thing occurs if I use a Grid component as well...even though Excel is processing the data accurately.
Thanks in advance,
Erik

Post Author: debdeb
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
Hi,
Without trying out your actual data, the first thing that comes to mind is that you aren't using all the options in VLOOKUP. I've discovered that Xcelsius requires all arguments even optional ones in many formulas but this isn't document). The last argument is TRUE (default) for the closest match, and FALSE for exact match. If the user can only enter from a set of values which are known to be in your lookup table, then either one will work but you should still specify this last argument.

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