topic Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart in App Development

Issue with number formatting in Line chart

pradnyat — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:42:55 GMT

Hi All,

We have 2 measures (Sales, Share) which we are showing dynamically in line chart. These 2 measures have different number formatting which I am handling using below expression:

if(Metric='Share',Num(Share,'#0%'),Num(Sales,'##,#00'))

and changed the number formatting to ;Measure Expression' which is giving correct results in Tooltip like % for Share and Number for sales.

But the Y axis remains same its not changing based on metrics. For share as well its showing number.

Any inputs to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

premvihari — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 04:32:56 GMT

you can achieve it by alternate measures only.
with single expression it was not possible to show 2 different scales for Y axis.

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

SergeyMak — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:23:13 GMT

Hi,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you are trying to drive what is displayed on the line chart by toggling in the field. If you do so, than I'd recommend the following approach:

Create or update your Measures table

[Measures]:

LOAD Metric, MetricFormula, Replace(MetricNumFormat,'.', ',') AS MetricNumFormat INLINE [

Metric, MetricFormula, MetricNumFormat

Share, Sum(Share),#.##0%

Sales, Sum(Sales),#.##0

];

Than use the following Expression

NUM($(=MetricFormula),$(=MetricNumFormat))

Note: I'm not sure why you don't have an aggregation function for your expression, but it usually required. That's why I've added SUM(). Replace it according to your needs

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

pradnyat — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:47:48 GMT

Yes I tried that but its not changing the values displayed at Y Axis

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

SergeyMak — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:46:16 GMT

Usually it changes Y axis

It would be great if you can post the screenshot.

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

StarinieriG — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:24:18 GMT

Maybe is not selected automatic format number in measure setting?

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

pradnyat — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:46:09 GMT

Attaching the QVF file for reference. Y axis is still not showing the % values, with measure expression in number format I was able to achieve hover number format.

Any help will be really appreciated!

Thanks!

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

pradnyat — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:12:42 GMT

I have shared the QVF file

Re: Issue with number formatting in Line chart

crvctsaa — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:50:33 GMT

Thanks for the helpful solution @SergeyMak .

I was able to get this to work with a small change to your measure expression, the format part of the nested expression needed to be in single quotes.

num($(=MetricFormula),'$(=MetricNumFormat)')