Specify scale of y-axis of Expense Barchart in terms of money units

Wm wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk
Sun Jun 14 12:34:14 EDT 2015


Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:06:09 
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Anton Kratz <anton.kratz at gmail.com>

>Thank you for your answer Wm, but I apparently did not clearly enough
>describe what I want to do, though I tried. I want to adjust the scale
>covered by the y-axis, not the height. I can adjust the height. By "scale"
>I mean: the range of money that fits into that height.

maybe you are from a different maths environment

x-scale is the left to right one
y-scale is the bottom to top one

>I.e. for each report, I want the y-axis to always go from 0 Yen to
>specified-amount-of-money, for example 20.000 Yen or any other amount. So
>that I compare several reports, say for different months or different
>weeks. I played around with the Custom Multicolumn Report and I don't see
>how it helps in this context at all. The scale is still dictated by how
>much money Ihave spent in a given time period. However I want to set it
>myself.
>
>The goal is, let's say when comparing two months, to see wether for a given
>day a stacked bar in one chart is higher or not than in the other chart.
>But if the scale is different, as it now necessarily is, it can not be
>visually compared.
>
>"Yen vs Euro vs USD": Sorry, I do not understand, I am not concerned with
>currency conversion, I just wrote Yen because this is my currency... could
>be any opther denomination.
>
>My original question still stands - if anyone has advice I would be
>thankful. Or if such a feature could be implemented, I think it would be
>relatively straighforward and easy to do and could be useful for many users.

I don't think you read what I said before

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Wm...


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