Stacked Bar Chart

The stacked bar chart allows you to compare multiple measures through horizontally stacked bars.

How to configure the flat table data to stacked bar chart?

A stacked bar chart requires at least one value element and one column element to be displayed. The measure or expression field that you want to analyze can be placed in the Value(s) block. The dimension that you want to use to categorize the measure can be placed in the Columns block. If you want to categorize based on a series, you can also place the corresponding dimension in the Rows block.

The following steps explain how to configure data for the stacked bar chart.

1. Drag and drop the stacked bar chart onto a canvas and resize it to your desired size.

2. Click the Data Source button in the configuration panel.

3. Click the CREATE NEW button to initiate a new connection from the connection type panel.

4. In the connection type panel, click on any one of the listed connection type buttons. (Here, the Microsoft Excel connection type is selected for demonstration.)

5. In the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel, fill in the connection type and related details. Then, click the Connect button.

6. Drag your preferred table or view from the left pane in the data design view and click the Save button.

7. Click the Properties button in the configuration panel to open the property pane. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA tab.

8. The data tab will be opened, displaying the available measures and dimensions from the connected data source.

9. You can input the necessary data from Measures and Dimensions into the designated field.

Adding Value(s)

You can add more than one Measures into the Value(s) field by dragging and dropping the required measure.

Click the Settings option to change the name by using the Rename option and selecting the required summary type from the available summary types shown in Settings.

Filtering data

You can filter the data to be displayed in a funnel chart by using a filter. For more details, refer to the filter.

Remove Fields

To remove the added value fields, click the highlighted button.

You can add more than one column from the Dimensions field to the Y Values field.

Adding Columns

You can add more than one value to the Columns field. If you add more than one column, then the drill-down option is automatically enabled.

The stacked bar chart will be rendered in this manner.

You can change the settings.

Renaming fields

The field names that have been configured can be edited by using the Rename option provided in the settings menu.

Sorting data

You can Sort the dimension data using the Sort option located in the Settings menu list. To apply sorting to the data, refer to the Sort.

Filtering data

To apply filters, select the Filter(s) in the settings. For more details, refer to the filter.

To display all records, click on Show All Records.

Similarly, you can add the Measures and Expression Columns into column field.

Adding Rows

You can drag and drop the Dimension into the Rows field.

If necessary, you can apply a filter and sort option for the rows field.

This will render a stacked bar chart in a series.

How to format stacked bar chart?

You can format the stacked bar chart for a better illustration of the view you require through the settings available in the Properties tab.

To configure data into a stacked bar chart, follow these steps:

1. Drag and drop the stacked bar chart onto the canvas and resize it to your desired size.

2. Configure the data for the stacked bar chart.

3. Focus on the stacked chart and click on the widget settings.

The property window will open.

You can view the list of properties that are available for the widget, with the default value.

General Settings

Name

This feature allows you to set the title for the stacked column chart widget.

Subtitle

This feature allows you to set a subtitle for this stacked-column chart widget.

Description

This allows you to provide a brief explanation about this stacked-column chart widget.

Basic Settings

Show Tooltip

This option allows you to toggle the visibility of tooltips in a chart.

Enable Animation

It animates the measure values when you toggle the Enable Animation.

Show Value Labels

This feature enables you to switch the visibility of value labels.

If you disable the Show Value Labels properties, the dependent properties, which are color, Value label position, Value label rotation and Value label suffix will be hidden.

Value Label Color

This allows you to customize the color of the value label.

Value Label Position

This option allows you to customize the position of value labels in a chart. By default, it is set to Auto, so the label position for a stacked bar chart will be set to the middle.

Value Label Rotation

This allows you to define the rotation angle for displaying the value labels.

Column Width

This option allows you to increase or decrease the width of the column by using the Column Width feature.

Column Spacing

This option allows you to increase or decrease the space between the columns by using the Column Spacing.

Legend Settings

Show Legend

A legend is a text used to describe the plotted data. This allows you to toggle the visibility of the legend in a chart and also change the position of the legend text by selecting through a combo box.

Enabling the option of Custom Legend Text will allow you to define custom text (using the text area) to display for each legend series (selected through the combo box) in a chart.

Legend Interactivity

The legend interactivity option in the chart allows you to control the behavior of the chart legends. It provides the option to make the chart legends non-clickable, which can be particularly useful in situations where you do not want users to hide or show series data by clicking on the legend. This feature can also be beneficial when displaying important data that should always be visible for accuracy and context.

Disabling the Interactivity feature in the Legend Settings category does not allow you to click on the legends.

Enabling the Interactivity feature in the Legend Settings category allows you to click on the legends.

Legend Label Color

This option enables you to modify the title and label colors of the chart legend.

Legend Alignment

Legend Alignment enables you to control how the legend is positioned within its allocated space. For detailed guidance, refer to the Legend Alignment section.

Legend Shape

This allows you to change the shape of the legend.

Circle

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend to a Circle.

Series Type

This option allows you to change the shape of the legend in Series.

Legend Title

This allows you to add the legend title for the chart, which will be reflected with the Show Legend.

Text Overflow

This option enables you to customize the legend text according to the value of the Text Width property.

None

This option allows you to display the legend items without wrapping or trimming them.

Trim

This option allows you to trim the legend items if their legend exceeds the value of Text Width.

Wrap

This option allows you to wrap legend items based on the value of Text Width.

Text Width

This option allows you to set the maximum width for the Legend Items, and it is applicable only if text-overflow is set as Trim or Wrap.

If you uncheck the Show Legend property in the property panel, the dependent properties, which are Legend color, Legend position, customization button and Legend title are also hidden.

NOTE: For single series, Legend wont be visible.

This option enables you to format the values of the primary and secondary axis using the formatting details provided by clicking the Format button. For more information, please consult the measure format.

Axis

This section allows you to customize the axis settings in the chart.

Title color

This feature allows you to customize the color of the axis title.

Label color

This feature allows you to customize the color of the axis label.

Show Category Axis

This allows the visibility of the Category Axis to be enabled.

If you disable the Show Category Axis option, dependencies properties, which are Show axis title, Axis title text, Trim overflow mode, Trim axis labels, Label Rotation and Auto Interval option will be hidden.

Category Axis Title

This allows you to edit the title of the Category Axis for the chart. It will be reflected as the name of the x-axis in the chart.

If we uncheck the Show Axis Title property, the Axis title text box property will be hidden.

Label overflow mode

This allows you to manage the display mode of the overlapping labels in the Category Axis.

Trim

This option trims the end of the overlapping label on the axis.

Hide

This option hides the overlapping label on the axis.

Trim Axis Labels

This option allows you to trim the axis labels based on the value of the Maximum Label Width property.

Label Maximum Width

This option allows you to set a maximum width for the axis labels, and it can also be customized when the trim axis label option is enabled.

Category Axis Label Rotation

This allows you to define the rotation angle for displaying the category axis labels.

Auto Interval and Interval

By default, the Auto Interval property is enabled. The Auto Interval property is used to automatically set intervals based on the number of data points for category axis labels. If the user wants to customize the interval, they need to disable the auto interval and set the desired interval.

Show Primary Value Axis

This allows you to enable the Primary Value Axis for the chart.

If you disable the Show Primary Axis option, dependencies properties, which are Axis title, Axis title text, Axis type and Axis Format properties will be hidden.

Primary Value Axis Title

This allows you to edit the Primary Value Axis title. It will reflect in y-axis name of chart.

Inverse Axis

By default, the chart axis shows positive values at the top and negative values at the bottom. However, there are times when we need to invert the axis and display negative values at the top and positive values at the bottom. For example, when we bind temperature data to the chart and want to display negative values at the top, we can utilize this property.

When this property is enabled, the chart will display negative values at the top and positive values at the bottom.

Axis Range Settings

This allows you to manually set the minimum, maximum, and interval values of the primary value axis through the Axis Range Settings dialog.

It will be reflected in the primary value axis of the chart.

Parameter Support in Axis range:

This feature allows you to dynamically set the minimum, maximum, and interval values of the primary value axis through the Axis Range Settings dialog, using the dashboard parameter values. Only number-type dashboard parameter values are allowed in the axis range properties. You can create multiple types of dashboard parameters.

1. Single parameter value.
2. Range parameter value.
3. Data source field based parameter values.

For more details about dashboard parameters, please refer to the Dashboard parameter documentation.

Single Parameter Value:

A single value is stored in this type of parameter.

1. Create a dashboard parameter in the number type as shown below.

Click on the axis range settings dialog and enter @ in any textbox (minimum, maximum, and interval). Select the parameter value (Only number type parameter values are allowed).

Now, the parameter value is reflected on the chart axis.

Range Parameter Value:

If you want to use the same ranges in multiple cases, create a parameter value of the range type. This type of parameter includes both the start and end values.

1. Create a parameter in range type.

2. Please click on the axis range settings dialog and enter @ in any textbox (minimum, maximum, and interval). The range parameter is divided into start and end parameters. The value entered in the first textbox is stored in the start parameter, while the value entered in the second textbox is stored in the end parameter. Please select a parameter value (only Number type parameter values are allowed).

3. The value of the parameter is reflected on the chart axis.

Data Source Field Based Parameter Value:

1. Create a parameter within the data source type. Within this parameter, select any field. The value will be determined by the selected field’s value.

2. Click the axis range settings dialog and enter @ in any textbox (minimum, maximum, and interval). Then, select the parameter value.

3. The value of the parameter is reflected in the axis of the chart.

Axis Format

This option enables you to format the values on the primary and secondary axes using the formatting details provided through the Format button. For additional information, please refer to this measure format.

Grid Lines

Primary value Axis

This allows you to enable the gridlines for the Primary Value Axis in the stacked bar chart.

Category Axis

This allows you to enable the gridlines for the Category Axis in the stacked bar chart.

Secondary value Axis

This enables you to enable the gridlines for the Secondary Value Axis in the stacked bar chart.

Font settings

This section enables you to customize the font size of chart elements.

Auto font Size and font size

By default, the ‘Auto Font Size’ property is enabled. The auto font-size property is used to set the font size based on the resolution of the client machine viewing the dashboard. If the user wants to customize or set a fixed font size, then they need to disable the auto font size and set the required font size.

Container Appearance

This section enables you to customize the Container Appearance for the stacked bar chart widget.

Title Alignment

This allows you to handle the alignment of the widget title to either the left, center, or right.

Title Color

This allows you to apply the text color to the widget title.

Title Auto Font Size

By enabling Auto Font Size, the title’s font size will automatically adjust if the screen resolution changes.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified font size to the widget title if the Title Auto Font Size is disabled. The value can be between 10 and 44.

Subtitle Auto Font Size

When Auto Font Size is enabled, the subtitle’s font size will be automatically adjusted if the screen’s resolution varies.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified font size to the widget title if the Subtitle Auto Font Size is disabled. The value can range from 10 to 32.

Auto Padding

When Auto Padding is enabled, the padding of the widget container will be adjusted automatically if the size of the widget varies.

Padding

This allows you to customize the padding of the widget container if the Auto Padding is disabled. The value can be between 0 and 25.

Show Border

This feature allows you to switch the visibility of the border surrounding the widget.

Corner Radius

This allows you to apply the specified radius to the widget corners if the Show Border is enabled. The value can be between 0 and 10.

Show Background Image

This feature enables you to select the background image for the stacked bar chart widget.

Background Color

This allows you to set the background color to the stacked bar chart widget.

Transparency

This property allows you to specify the transparency for the background color.

Show Shadow

This feature enables you to switch the visibility of the shadow surrounding the widget.

Container actions

This section allows you to customize the Container actions for the stacked bar chart widget.

Show Header

This allows you to enable or disable the widget title of the stacked bar chart.

Allow Maximize View

This allows you to enable or disable the maximized mode of the stacked bar chart widget. The visibility of the maximize icon in the widget header will be defined based on the setting in the viewer.

Allow CSV Export

This allows you to enable or disable the CSV export option for the stacked bar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to CSV format in the viewer.

Allow Excel Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Excel export option for the stacked bar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the summarized data of the widget view to (.xlsx or .xls) format in the viewer.

Allow Image Export

This allows you to enable or disable the Image export option for the stacked bar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to image format (.jpg), (.png), or (.bmp) in the viewer.

Allow PDF Export

This allows you to enable or disable the PDF export option for the stacked bar chart widget. Enabling this allows you to export the view of the widget to pdf format in the viewer.

Enable Comments

This allows you to enable or disable comment for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to the Commenting Widget.

Allow View Underlying Data

This allows you to visualize the raw data associated with a widget at runtime.

To learn more about viewing the underlying widget data, refer to the view data documentation.

Pin widget

This allows you to pin the widget.

Responsive Behavior

We hide the widget elements based on the size of the widget for better readability.

When the chart has been placed with fewer than 7 columns on the X-axis, the X-axis labels and titles will be hidden.

When the chart has fewer than 6 rows, the Y-axis labels, Y-axis titles, and gridlines will be hidden.