Fixing problems with charts
When you display your QMF report data as a chart in the ICU,
you may not see exactly what you expect. Here are some tips on how
to fix chart problems:
- Chart
does not display X-axis labels or Y-axis labels
- Do one of the following:
- Use the QMF form to truncate the labels by reducing the column widths
for those particular columns.
- Use the ICU to make the labels smaller or set them at an angle
(or both) using the ICU menu for data label attributes.
- Chart does not display all the pies for a pie chart
- There is not enough space on your screen to display all the
pies at a reasonable size. In the ICU, reduce the margins of your
chart by using the menu that is associated with headings, legends,
and layout.
- Omitted data value labels
- The data labels cannot fit on your chart. Do one of the following
tasks:
- In QMF, reorder the data in your query so that QMF can group values
appropriately. This requires fewer labels on the X-axis.
- In the ICU, reduce the margins of your chart.
- In the ICU, put the labels in a legend rather than attach them
to the pie slices. Use the menu that allows you to specify chart
options for each chart type.
- Wrong spacing of X-axis data
- In this case, the position of data along the X-axis is either
spaced at equal intervals and you want it spaced according to numeric
value, or just the opposite. Do one of the following tasks:
- In QMF, specify an alternate chart type by using a different
QMF-provided chart format. Each chart format provides the type of
X-axis that is most typically used with its given chart type.
- In the ICU, change the way the data is spaced along the X-axis
by using the menu for data interpretation.
