Line chart and vertical line repeats according period

Question

Hej,
I have line chart and horizontal axis displays many months, thus is possible to vertical line from horizontal axis be displayed after years period and be color diferent?? My example, start displays January 2007,......finish December2007->DISPLAY VERTICAL LINE as LONG TICK, start January2008....and so on... is possible to set such repeater for line chart...thank for response.

Answer 1

Hi 1234alex,
According to your description, you want to create a non-vertical target line in top of bar chart to show different target.
In Reporting Services, it’s impossible to create a non-vertical target line in top of bar chart. Because StripLines can only return a vertical target line even we put expression to make it dynamically . In this scenario, we can show the target line as values
and use switch() function to specify different values based on different category. Then we just need to change the chart type for that series only. However, it only support horizontal line chart type in Reporting Services, so we suggest you use column chart
instead of bar chart. Please refer to detail steps below:
1. On Chart Data region, set an expression looks like:
     =switch(Fields!month.value=”A”,”4”,
     Fields!month.value=”B”,”8”, 
     Fields!month.value=”C”,”2”,
     Fields!month.value=”D”,”5”)
2. Right click expression in Chart Data region, choose Change Chart type, select a line chart.
3. Click Preview, the results look like:
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu