Creating a Second Y-Axis on an Analytic Chart
Did you know you can get a 2nd y-axis on a chart? This can create what some people call a mixed-series chart, with a combination of bars and lines.
If you add 2 measures to a Bar Chart, one of which has "normal" numeric formatting, and one which is formatted as a percentage, PerformancePoint will draw the % series on the right axis.
For example, here's a simple chart with one bar series.
Add a 2nd measure to the query, and if it's a percentage, PerformancePoint will automatically add it to the right axis. That's it.
Note: Be sure to add your percentage measure as the first measure in the Series, that way the lines will draw on top of the bars. If the percentage measure is second, the lines will draw behind and may be hard to see.
We don't have a way to manually control this yet, we are hoping to add that in a future version, but for now, you can create mixed bar/line charts as long as you're using percentages.
Greg Bernhardt
Senior Program Manager - PerformancePoint
Microsoft
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Anonymous
February 12, 2008
Did you know you can get a 2nd y-axis on a chart? This can create what some people call a mixed-seriesAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Thank you very much. This helps a lot. I just got back from PPS week training and instructor showed the screen shot, but had no idea how to do that... Thanks, Yuriy.Anonymous
March 30, 2008
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March 31, 2008
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March 31, 2008
Thanks for help. Please advise how can I attach a screen chop here to help communicate? I just used the "Getting started tutorial" in Proclarity as my example. My scenario is as follows:
- Row: sales amount
- Column : Product category
- I want to add "% Gross Margin" (from Measurement) in to the "Row" as my 2nd data series....to be plotted in Y2 axis. But when I applied, the Row was replaced by my 2nd selected measurement (% margin), that means, I can never add another data series in row, and further specify it to be plotted using Y2 axis. Please advise where did I go wrong with my Proclarity 6.3 DT professional? Or, was it due to version difference? since I could not see the screen like Greg posted... Appreciated. Lance.
Anonymous
April 01, 2008
You need to control click to add % gross margin in addition to sales amount. Once you have both on the rows you can right click on % gross margin and move the series to the y-axis (in ProClarity at least). If you are still having trouble email me at alysonp@microsoft.comAnonymous
April 01, 2008
Is it possible to do this with two dimensions instead of 2 measures? I am playing with my MDX query to try and get it to render the graph in the manner you have above but I cannot figure it out. In my case, my values are dimensions (one is a % and one is a $). Any ideas? Thank you!Anonymous
April 01, 2008
Only works for measures. Sorry.Anonymous
April 02, 2008
In case of the perspective view, does it support to differentiate the dimensions by colors of the data point? And further to display the 3rd measure by using the area size of the data point? (like bubble chart) Thanks for advice.Anonymous
July 05, 2008
how to display all of them in Legend, when there is more than 30 series?Anonymous
September 30, 2008
We had a need on how to add a second axis on an Analytic Chart and I found the following link. Very helpful...Anonymous
November 09, 2008
i have requirement to have both in a single chart can we do like that in pps. Also how i can control the axis values if second axis we don't want to display. Thanks in advanceAnonymous
January 08, 2009
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March 25, 2009
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November 03, 2010
What about SharePoint 2010 with PPS. Is it possible to control th second Y-Axis manually. I would like one axis with sales quanitity and an additional with sales in local currency. Regards, JonasAnonymous
November 17, 2010
Is it possible that all the series are non Percentages?Anonymous
December 10, 2010
A secondary axis is extremely important in the business world, and this solution does not provide a way to compare two measures (Qty On-hand, Units Sold) which is extremely important. Or even better, average retail vs units sold. If someone knows of a solution for this using an analytic chart, please post.Anonymous
May 13, 2011
This there any way of making the right Y axis a numeric value other than percentage?Anonymous
March 14, 2013
Is there any way of making Y axis as numeric value other than percentage?Anonymous
July 08, 2013
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