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Stacked bar chart problem

I have two types of hours.

Hours 1 are shown at the process level.

Hours 2 are shown at the sub-process level. I was initially told that Hours1 > Hours2 always.

My bar chart needs to show stacked Hours2 and Hours3 (which represent the difference of Hours1-Hours2).

My bar chart works well, unless  Hours1<Hours2 (which sometimes happens). I really don't need to show negative difference. It doesn't have to be a difference at all, just a separate category. I am sure there is a better way to do it.

Please see attached example.

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m_woolf
Master II
Master II

If you want Hours3 to always be positive, you can wrap it in the fabs() function:

fabs(Sum (DISTINCT Hours1) - Sum (Hours2))

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m_woolf
Master II
Master II

Try this expression for Hours3:

=if(Sum(DISTINCT Hours1) - Sum (Hours2)<0,0,Sum (DISTINCT Hours1) - Sum (Hours2))

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m w,  thank you for the answer. That fixed some extra brackets in the attached example. But this still doesn't solve the issue. e.g.: Process A has 5 Hours2 and  4 Hours1  - Only Hours2 are shown. I need to show both Hours2 and Hours3

m_woolf
Master II
Master II

I thought that Hours 3 by definition in your expression was zero.

If you don't want Hours3 to be negative and you don't want it to be zero, what do you want it to be?

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No. My expression is incorrect (it was a workaround based on the assumption that the difference will always be positive). But what I want to show is Hours2 and Hours3 stacked.

m_woolf
Master II
Master II

If you want Hours3 to always be positive, you can wrap it in the fabs() function:

fabs(Sum (DISTINCT Hours1) - Sum (Hours2))