Horizontal Bar Charts
Horizontal bar charts, sometimes named histograms, are most often used for showing item comparisons and are especially helpful in emphasizing differences between items. For example, revenue that is compared to expenses by processing shift. They should not be used to display information over time (use a vertical bar chart for this purpose).
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Horizontal bar charts, sometimes named histograms, are most often used for showing item comparisons and are especially helpful in emphasizing differences between items. For example, revenue that is compared to expenses by processing shift. They should
not
be used to display information over time (use a vertical bar chart for this purpose).Sample Horizontal Bar Chart
BAR CHART OF JOBCOUNT JOBCLASS Job Input Class JOBCOUNT | A |********************************** 3,432 | B |**************** 1,587 | C |*** 333 | D |************************** 2,614 | X |********* 927 | ----------+---------+---------+---------+ 1000 2000 3000 4000 Job Executions
MICF allows you to generate simple horizontal bar charts and more complex presentations with related groups of horizontal bars and stacked bars that illustrate the composition of a value (for example, revenue by cost center). The more complex horizontal bar charts are discussed in the next two sections.
When you generate a simple horizontal bar chart, you can use optional parameters to create logical groups of horizontal bars. For example, you could create a chart of revenue by cost center over invoice category as a group of revenue-by-cost-center bars for each invoice category.
The chart bars can represent actual values, percentages of the total value, or cumulative percentages. Parameters are provided to control the chart axis scale, data element labels, printed value formats, the color, and the pattern that is used to fill the bars, and the color of chart text.
Sample Horizontal Bar Chart is a sample horizontal bar chart of the number of job executions by job class. The exact number of executions is provided to the right of each bar for each job class.
To create a horizontal bar chart, select the Horizontal Bar Chart option from any of the following menus:
- Direct Inquiry Color Graphics Menu
- Direct Inquiry Printer Graphics Menu
- Structured Inquiry Color Graphics Menu
- Structured Inquiry Printer Graphics Menu