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Where I work we often like to display graphs from highest to lowest value on a HBAR type graph. i.e. instead of the X-axis being sorted in alphabetical order, it is sorted in order of the height of the bars.

So far I've only been able to do this by ranking the data and concatenating the rank onto the front of the x-axis bar title. i.e. the highest bar becomes '01 mytitle' instead of 'mytitle', is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks

Tewy


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Not worked with graphs meself but could you not sort

BY (concatenated rank and title) NOPRINT
BY title

This way the x-axis will only show "My title" but the order will be correct
 
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Looks like those BYs should be ACROSSs
 
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I got this technique from IBI site.

I understand they are working on a better way to do this.

It uses the COLUMNS option on the graph command.
It looks strange but it works.

-DEFAULTS &ORDER=LOWEST ;
FILEDEF SAVEIT DISK C:\TESTYGUY\TWO\SAVEIT.FEX
DEFINE FILE CAR
NEWCTY/A12 = ''''||COUNTRY||'''' ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM FUEL_CAP COUNTRY
BY NEWCTY
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-RUN
SET HOLDLIST = PRINTONLY
TABLE FILE HOLD
SUM
NEWCTY NOPRINT
COMPUTE VALS/A20 = IF LAST NEWCTY EQ ' ' THEN
NEWCTY ELSE 'AND ' | NEWCTY;
BY &ORDER FUEL_CAP NOPRINT
ON TABLE SAVE AS SAVEIT
END
-RUN
GRAPH FILE CAR
SUM FUEL_CAP
ACROSS COUNTRY COLUMNS
-INCLUDE SAVEIT
END


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Thanks, I'll give it a go. BTW I tend to use BY instead of across as I often exceed the max number of ACROSS points and BY works just as well.

Tewy


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I believe if you use multiple BYs it generates a new graph for each BY. As I say Ive not worked with graphs before though
 
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Special-K,

You can merge the graphs via SET GRMERGE = ON

Tewy,

This example is a bit excessive but it is necessary to be able to sort on the highest summated value of retail_cost. It will provide the graph you require though. Note that the ranking is prefixed on the label for you in this example.

SET ASNAMES = ON
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST AS RCOST
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS TEMPCAR
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE TEMPCAR
SUM RCOST
RANKED BY HIGHEST RCOST
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS TEMPCAR1
END

GRAPH FILE TEMPCAR1
SUM RCOST
BY RANK
BY MODEL
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH VBAR
ON GRAPH SET GRAPHEDIT OFF
ON GRAPH SET BARNUMB OFF
ON GRAPH SET 3D OFF
ON GRAPH SET VZERO OFF
ON GRAPH SET GRID ON
ON GRAPH SET GRMERGE ON
END


T



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