Hi Mike
You should be able to build 1 table with 100 entries (1 per city) and 6
numeric columns per entry (values 1-6). Then, when you do a bar graph, you
just pick the six columns as the variables to use. As to labeling each bar
in the graph, that is a bit more difficult. There is no built in
functionality that will label each individual bar. What you _could_ do is
build a label expression for each city that displays the values for that
city. When you set the label properties for a layer, you can use an
expression instead of a column (the last choice in the expression list). You
can string together text (enclose in double quotes) and columns. In
addition, you can create multi-line labels by including a chr$(13) command.
For example: "Population: " + PopCol + Chr$(13) + "Households: " + HHCol
would give the following label:
Population: 3,255
Households: 1,432
As long as you leave these as autolabels (and don't convert them to a new
layer using the Labeler utility) they will update automatically whenever
your data changes.
Finally, I don't think that MapX will make this much easier as it uses the
same basic label functionality that Mapinfo uses. There might be a mapbasic
program out there that does this, and you certainly could write one, but I
am not sure it would be worth the effort.
Feel free to drop me a note if you have more questions.
Regards,
James
James L Marlow
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike C Kallas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MI Bar Graph-ablities
I have approximately 100 US cities to display on a map.
Each city has six milestones in which our group tracks in an MSAccess
database.
What I would like to do is display a BarGraph for each city and show
each of the six bars in the graph
dependant upon the data in the table.
Is there any other way to display the bar graph without making 100
individual tables?
I would also like to place a label under each bar on the graph to
designate the approximate number which has
been accomplish or not accomplished.
Would this process be easier to do in a MapX application or would there
be a mapbasic program that would
automate the process.
As things become accomplished, the database will change, thus changing
my map. (Once a week or so.)
Am I trying to get too much out of the bargraphs in the Thematic map
portion of MI 5.5 or should I expect more functionality?
I'm welcome to any thoughts or suggestions.
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Mike Kallas
Sprint Corporation
Broadband Local Networks
Site Application Planning
Network Analyst II
Office: 913.906.7704
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