Microsoft KB Archive/240263

= How To Create a Combination Chart with the Chart Web Component =

Article ID: 240263

Article Last Modified on 7/15/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Web Components

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This article was previously published under Q240263



SUMMARY
This article describes how you can create a combination chart using the Chart Office Web Component.



MORE INFORMATION
A combination chart can include Series with Columns, Lines, or Areas. To create a combination Chart, set the Type property of each series. To illustrate, you could use the following code to create an Area/Column combination Chart from a Chart with two series:

Sample Code


Sub Window_OnLoad

Dim oChart Dim oSeries1, oSeries2 dim oConst 'Ensure ChartSpace1 is empty: ChartSpace1.Clear

Set oConst = ChartSpace1.Constants

'Create a new chart in the ChartSpace Set oChart = ChartSpace1.Charts.Add 'Add a series of type Column Set oSeries1 = oChart.SeriesCollection.Add With oSeries1 .Caption = "Sales" .SetData oConst.chDimCategories, oConst.chDataLiteral, _ Array("1994", "1995", "1996", "1997") .SetData oConst.chDimValues, oConst.chDataLiteral, _ Array(50, 60, 55, 59) .Type = oConst.chChartTypeColumnClustered End With 'Add a second series of type Line Set oSeries2 = oChart.SeriesCollection.Add With oSeries2 .Caption = "Profit" .SetData oConst.chDimCategories, oConst.chDataLiteral, _ Array("1994", "1995", "1996", "1997") .SetData oConst.chDimValues, oConst.chDataLiteral, _ Array(39, 47, 52, 46) .Type = oConst.chChartTypeLine End With 'Add a second value axis to the Chart oChart.Axes.Add oChart.Scalings(oConst.chDimValues), _ oConst.chAxisPositionRight, oConst.chValueAxis

'Display the legend oChart.HasLegend = True oChart.Legend.Position = oConst.chLegendPositionBottom 'Display the title for the chart oChart.HasTitle = True oChart.Title.Caption = "Four Year Overview"

End Sub

Notes About Chart and Series Types
Both Charts and Series have a Type property. Setting the Type property of a Chart object changes the chart type for every Series in the Chart. Note that if you query the Type property of a combination Chart, the returned value is chChartTypeCombo (or -1). chChartTypeCombo indicates that the Series on the Chart has different types. You cannot set a Chart Type to chChartTypeCombo; if you do, you receive an error.

As mentioned earlier, a combination Chart can consist only of Series with types Column, Area, or Line. If you attempt to change a Series on a Chart to an incompatible type, all the Series types on the chart are changed. In other words, you change the Type property of the Chart object itself.

Notes About Value Axes
A combination chart can have two value axes. The Value axes on a chart always have the same scale. In a scenario where you have two series where the y-values are considerably different in value, the Series with the smaller values may look "dwarfed" by the Series with the larger values. Unfortunately, when using the ChartWeb component there is no way to avoid this behavior because the value axes cannot have different scales.

There are alternatives you might consider for using two series with very different values:


 * Create two separate charts in the ChartSpace. -or-


 * Create the chart in Microsoft Excel because Excel charts can have a different scale for the secondary y-axis. You could then publish the chart without interactivity by clicking Save As Web Page on the File menu. When you publish a chart in this manner, a picture of the chart is actually saved to a GIF file.

With the Office Web Components version 10 and version 11, you can have two value axis with different scales. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

286211 How To Create a Combination Chart Using the Office XP Chart Component or the Office 2003 Chart Component

