Hiya folks!

I have a table with the following fields:

ArticleDescription (text)
Popularity (percantage)
ContributionMargin (Euros)
PopularityIndex (percentage)
AverageContributionMargin (Euros)

I am trying to create a scatter chart in an Access report (in the footer) that shows the following:

1. X-Axis: ContributionMargin (Euros)

2. Y-Axis: Popularity (percantage)

3. Plots (X,Y): ArticleDescription (I want the name of the article to appear near the plot).

4. The X-axis to cross the Y-axis at PopularityIndex value.

5. The Y-axis to cross the X-axis at AverageContributionMargin value.

6. Not sure how to explain this, let us assume that the chart automatically displays the x-axis from -10 to 10. And let us assume that the lowest and highest values of contributionmargin that I will plot are -1 and 2, respectively, I would want the chart to show the x-axis from -2 to 3 instead of the -10 to 10. The same goes for the y-axis (popularity).

Hope you can help!

Thanks!

What is the programmatic part of the question? It seems to me that if you handle the query parameters correctly, that this would not be an issue. If you create the report and then pass parameters to it, it should display how you want it. To create the chart with the values you want, just format the axis min and max values.

Did that help?

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Hello! Thanks for the reply!

The only thing I have been able to do is to create the report, and to create the scatter chart - with the x-axis and y-axis defined as I want (I used the wizard so it was pretty straight forward). What I cant seem to do is the rest (and also to make the chart in the report appear as it should. It is always showing up blank - just white.

In Excel, I was able to do what I need, but when I tried to format the chart in the same way in Access report, it doesnt give me the same funcionality.

I am not sure if this answered your question? Let me play a little with the queries and I will get back to you.

Thanks!