(v24) Show or Hide Total Values On a Chart

Show or Hide Total Values On a Chart

This applies to: Managed Dashboards, Managed Reports

In Symphony, metric sets determine which data to display, including totals according to the Shown Totals setting. Charts typically do not display total values alongside the original values, however, and have their own property setting that normally hides totals by default so that a new chart displays the data as expected.

This article explains how you can show or hide data points representing total values on a chart when totals are already set to display on the metric set.

Show Total Values

For this example, set up a chart to display OrderQty by OrderDate.

By default, the chart uses a Date/Time axis, but this won't work with total values. Go to the toolbar and change it to Category Axis, which will give you expanders along the X-axis.

Go to the chart Properties and in the Main tab, uncheck the Hide Total Values property, which applies to chart types other than Pie. When this property is unchecked, grand totals and subtotals are displayed in the chart.

Specifically, you'll see an (All) data bar added to the chart above which represents the sum of the other data bars. In the Data Preview, the Grand Total value in the table visualization corresponds to this newly added data bar.

Next, open the Data Analysis Panel for the bar chart and drag the Product hierarchy to the COLUMNS field. This will generate a chart series for each Product value, plus an additional series which displays the grand total for each row or data point. Also, the (All) value turns into a cluster of total values, each representing the grand total for a specific Product.

Comparison of values in the above chart may be difficult because the total values are so much larger than the rest. You can improve the situation by hiding the total that is displayed at each cluster using the metric set's settings.

To do this, open the Data Analysis Panel for the bar chart and click the Edit button at the top. In the Metric Set Configuration dialog, set Shown Totals to Rows. In a full screen metric set, you can also find Shown Totals in the toolbar.

The overall total value and the grand total for each row (data point) are not displayed anymore, only the grand total for each Product. This makes it easier to compare values in the chart.

Show Grand Total For a Pie or Waterfall Chart

Pie charts and waterfall charts are handled a bit differently because they already typically display total values, except for grand totals. You can enable or disable totals using only the metric set's settings, and totals are usually enabled by default.

For these charts, uncheck their Hide Grand Total property in the Properties window in order see the grand total value. This is displayed at the center of a pie chart, for example.

For more information, see:

• Symphony Metric Sets

• Other Metric Set Tools

• Using Chart Properties

• Using a Pie Chart