HELP I´m DESEPERATE, i need a loot of HELP - Graphs in REPORTS9i

Hello again, i want to make my Graph print a line, anouther color, that line value it is on a Collumn on my DATABASE.
But it is not the only thing i put on the graph, because the other things are group by date (DAY), but this collumn does have not anything with the date, it is a Max collumn and a Minim.
I want to have this values like a horizontal line, to the person who go look my graph see if the control registred in DATABASE are in/out of STANDARD limits (MAX/MIN) how are 2 collumns in DataBASE!
Pedro Lavado

I think this is the wrong forum, Pedro.

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    Post Author: quafto
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