Traffic lights

[#1]

Hi,

I have a bar chart with on the x-axis employeeID and on the y-axis is the sales

Now I want to make a traffic light which is green if EACH employee meets the target of 60 000 000 sales and red if they don't meet the target.

But how do I do this?

Can I use my bar chart for it or should I make a new gauge chart with exact the same data?

And we're can i say when it should be green or red?

Thanks in advance!

[#2]

Hello,

You can play around with the legend on the bar chart to do it or its always suggested if you use a Guage chart with LED's.

Anyways you need to write something like if(sum(Sales) = '60000000', Green(), Red()). This should be your expression and the Dimension should be your Employee.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[matt_crowther]

If you mean; green if every induvidual employee reaches the 60,000,000 target and red if even 1 falls short then look at a single LED gauge chart and an expression using an agg() function across the EmployeeID dimension.

If you want a traffic light for each seperate employee you can use a straight table chart with EmployeeID as the dimension and a micro-chart as the expression with a simple if() controling the LED component.

You could also add an indicator to the Axis of the bar chart ('Text on Axis') you may be able to get a red / green LED to display by using the built in QV icons.

Alternatively I'd look to put a reference line in your Bar Chart at a y-value of 60,000,000 you can also colour the bar itself red or green accordingly with a simple background color if() function. This would be my preferred option for ease of use.

Hope that helps,

Matt - Visual Analytics Ltd

[#4]

Hi

If I get you right I think you want this.... not sure it will look good but try it and see what you think...

in the expression tab of your object properties. click the expand button next to your expression for sales.

then on the background color tool..

then put the following if statement into the definition box on the right..

if(Sales>='60000000',Green(),Red())

I hope this helps..

[#5]

as a thought it may be worth also applying a ref line in your graph to help the user understand the reason for the colour coding.

just a thought.

[#6]

On my y-axis is sum(Subtotal), which I call sales.

I've made a new text object with code:

=If(sum(Subtotal)>'60000000', 'qmem://<bundled>/BuiltIn/led_g.png', 'qmem://<bundled>/BuiltIn/led_r.png')

but it is always green, i think it's because it doesn't look at the seperate employeeID's, how can i let him check every sum(Subtotal) of every employeeID? And only if every employeeID meets the target of 60000000 it should be green.

Thanks in advance!

[#7]

Could you upload an example of your graph so that I can look at this please. ??

I am finding it difficult to picture it in my head. .

Thanks

[#8]

Here is a small example

[#9]

Hi, it  would be good if you use a table instit of a chart in that you can show an additional column and show that traffic lights  attached is an example for you reference

[#10]

Hi

I have applied two different ways of visualizing this info..

Please see the attached example.

I hope one of these covers your needs

Note: the traffic light way can get messy if you have a huge list of Employees as it could require  a lot of future maintenance.