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[Olav Poppe <op.registrering@xxxxxx>]

Yes, I know - the section on line chart explains how to make report tables that supports line charts. The point was only that I ignored the issue when writing the bar charts section, and just left it with quarters along the x-axis...

Den 19. juni 2011 kl. 10:04 skrev Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Olav,
> 
> This obviously is not the right place to discuss how to make reports and charts, but you can of course create other kinds of report tables that do not cross tab on periods, so that a single period column(in the report table) can appear as a series in a line chart.
> 
> We should cover in the user manual (I think all this belongs in the user manual and not the implementation guide) what kind of report tables are needed for the various types of charts etc.
> 
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> On 19 June 2011 12:30, Olav Poppe <op.registrering@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I know the bar chart example isn't very good. The problem is that I think a lot of the reports that are made have periods on the crosstab dimension, and as far as I know that makes it impossible to make a line chart - and since the bar chart is there by default, I just ignored the whole issue...
> 
> Olav
> 
> Den 19. juni 2011 kl. 07.35 skrev Jens Kaasbøll:
> 
> > Looks nice, and I will try to go through it in detail.
> > I wonder, who is the intended target audience; normal users, superusers or customizers?
> >
> > The bar charts at p14-18 has time units on their x-axis. Time trends are  better displayed by line charts as you do in the last example. Bar charts can better be used for comparing facilities or districts.
> >
> > Jens K
> >
> >
> > On 17.06.2011 16:30, Lars Helge Øverland wrote:
> >> Hi Olav, looks very good, nice work. We have a workshop coming up on monday so if you want it would be very helpful if you can put it into docbook.
> >> Lars
> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Olav Poppe <op.registrering@xxxxxx <mailto:op.registrering@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>    No, it is not in docbook format (I had to be a bit efficient...). I
> >>    can "convert" it to docbook later when I have some time, just wanted
> >>    to check here first before I spent time doing it.
> >>    Olav
> >>    Den 17. juni 2011 kl. 13:01 skrev Jason Pickering
> >>    <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >>>    Hi Olav,
> >>>    I did not look at the details yet, but it seems to be very useful.
> >>>    Is this already in DocBook format? If so, we can find a way to
> >>>    weave it into the existing manual.
> >>>    Regards,
> >>>    Jason
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Olav <
> >>>    <mailto:op.registrering@xxxxxx>op.registrering@xxxxxx
> >>>    <mailto:op.registrering@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        Hi,
> >>>        I've made a small "manual" for using ireport, that extends on
> >>>        what is in the manual already. It is available at         <http://db.tt/6M28i1k>http://db.tt/6M28i1k . I thought I would
> >>>        share it here to see if there is any interest adding it to the
> >>>        DHIS user manual. Some of the stuff is quite specific - maybe
> >>>        too specific?
> >>>
> >>>        Regards
> >>>        Olav
> >>
> 
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