I made a report with a couple of charts in it, but the x-axis labels of the chart puzzled me. At first I couldn't find where I can modify the x-axis labels to be in a 90 degrees angle in all of those charts. Some of the charts had labels rotated 45 degrees, some 90 degrees and some of the labels were just horizontal. Now that I have solved it I want to share it :) . I add terms used in Finnish language Report Studio 'cause I think those translations used in it are often strange.
[ 1 ] Click category axis / luokan akseli in the chart
[ 2 ] In the properties list under General / Yleinen modify Label control / Nimen ohjausobjekti property from Default / Oletus àAutomatic / Automaattinen
Voilà! All the rotation properties are shown and you are able to set label rotation, eg. allow 90 degrees rotation.
NOTE: this applies to legacy charts.
9/10/2011
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Do U Love Excel-reports?
How would it sound if a manager of an organisation wanted a dashboard report, that would show what kind of impact it had, if he used less time for management and more for customer meetings?
When opening the report, different scenarios would be played in 3D video and James McCaffrey (voice actor of MaxPayne video game) would be the narrator. For showing the report in the board meeting, it would have elements based on the organisations graphic instructions and in addition personal themes that were loaded from an online store.
My imagination is not the wildest, but could that description above be something like what the Generation Y managers would want? Past years Generarion Y in a workplace, being led and being leaders, has been a topic of discussion. How does this generation, who was born in the internet-era and to whom computers are a given, differ from the previous generations? I'm interested in what this brings to my work in BI-reporting area or will it bring anything at all?
In differend sources the Generation Y is defined to be born between 1977-1990, 1980-1995 or 1980-2000 and in a way I myself belong to that generation, but when you’re used to seeing old-fashioned reports, it is easy to get stuck with them. The most important wish for a customer may be, that a report can be viewed in Excel-format and the numbers can later be tweaked by them. They don’t necessarily care at all how ugly the report looks and in the worst case they may wish to input as much as 30 prompts before they run the report!
Generation Y is described, for example, so that user experience is important and delays are irritating for them. I can believe, that Generation Y demands much more from a report, than “just show the right figures”!
When opening the report, different scenarios would be played in 3D video and James McCaffrey (voice actor of MaxPayne video game) would be the narrator. For showing the report in the board meeting, it would have elements based on the organisations graphic instructions and in addition personal themes that were loaded from an online store.
My imagination is not the wildest, but could that description above be something like what the Generation Y managers would want? Past years Generarion Y in a workplace, being led and being leaders, has been a topic of discussion. How does this generation, who was born in the internet-era and to whom computers are a given, differ from the previous generations? I'm interested in what this brings to my work in BI-reporting area or will it bring anything at all?
In differend sources the Generation Y is defined to be born between 1977-1990, 1980-1995 or 1980-2000 and in a way I myself belong to that generation, but when you’re used to seeing old-fashioned reports, it is easy to get stuck with them. The most important wish for a customer may be, that a report can be viewed in Excel-format and the numbers can later be tweaked by them. They don’t necessarily care at all how ugly the report looks and in the worst case they may wish to input as much as 30 prompts before they run the report!
Generation Y is described, for example, so that user experience is important and delays are irritating for them. I can believe, that Generation Y demands much more from a report, than “just show the right figures”!
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