Issue 31675 - Can't add information from several parts of a chart in a single diagram
Summary: Can't add information from several parts of a chart in a single diagram
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: chart (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: kla
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Reported: 2004-07-18 19:16 UTC by shtrom
Modified: 2013-02-24 21:19 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description shtrom 2004-07-18 19:16:06 UTC
To create a diagram is necessary to have the set of data grouped, that is, for
example, the X axis values in the first column, then the first figures in the
second column, the second in the third one, and so on.
  ---------------------------
  |  A    B    C    D    E  |
1 | date foo  bar  baz  narf|
2 |  01   32   32   45   45 |<- this is the selected data for the diagram
3 |  02   12  456   56   65 |
4 |  04   45   65   45   65 |
  ---------------------------

This works well if I want to have in my diagram four data (foo, bar, baz and
narf ; A1:E4) indexed according to the dates. 

But what if I want only baz and narf in the diagram while keeping the dates ?

The only way to do this was to modify my chart this way :
                -----------------
   A    B    C  |  D    E    F  |
1 date foo  bar | date baz  narf|
2  01   32   32 |  01   45   45 |
3  02   12  456 |  02   56   65 |
4  04   45   65 |  03   45   65 |
                -----------------
and I selected D1:F4 for my diagram, which is not very elegant.

It would be interesting to have the possibility to add data to a graph from
several non-contiguous columns (or lines) :

  -------     -------     -------
  |  A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |
1 | date| foo | bar | baz | narf|
2 |  01 |  32 |  32 |  45 |  45 |
3 |  02 |  12 | 456 |  56 |  65 |
4 |  04 |  45 |  65 |  45 |  65 |
  -------     -------     -------
     ^           ^           ^
     |           |  this is the second set
     |           |
     |     this is the first set of
     |     data to represent in the
     |     particuliar diagram
     |
this is what the X-axis shows
Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2004-07-18 20:49:20 UTC
Hi, you can do it already. Use the Ctrl-key while selecting the data in column
A, C and E. If you enter the ranges directly into the range-field, you have to
put a semicolon between the different parts.
Comment 2 shtrom 2004-07-19 14:19:49 UTC
Ok, I'm sorry for this already-implemented enhancement request, I didn't find
any information about how to do that either in the doc or on the net...

However, is there a possibility to have the X axis data note in the first column ?

  -------     -------      --------
  |  A  |  B  |  C  |   D  |  E   |
1 | foo | bar | date|  baz | narf |
2 |  32 |  32 |  01 |   45 |  45  |
3 |  12 | 456 |  02 |   56 |  65  |
4 |  45 |  65 |  03 |   45 |  65  |
  -------     -------      --------
                 ^
           this is the X axis data

BTW, maybe there's a better place to ask this question ?

Thank you
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2004-07-19 15:32:20 UTC
The x-Axis data series is always the left (or upper) one (for OOo1.1). But your
wish is already in the feature wish list
http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/featurewishes.html
So you can close this issue.

You can use the forum http://www.oooforum.org/ or the mailinglist
users@openoffice.org to get help or have look at your Native Language Project.
You can reach them from the OOo-home http://www.openoffice.org.
Comment 4 kla 2004-08-11 14:36:32 UTC
kla->shtrom: You agree with regina?
kla->regina: Thx, great
Comment 5 kla 2004-08-11 14:36:46 UTC
closed