# Are slope charts complicated/possible in Perspective?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/are-slope-charts-complicated-possible-in-perspective/65899 "2022-10-31T19:28:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![zacharyw.larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacharyw.larson/32/23749_2.png) [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/are-slope-charts-complicated-possible-in-perspective/65899/1 "2022-10-31T19:28:31Z")

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**Questions:**  
Are slope charts not too bad to make?  
How can I make one?  
Is there a good alternative?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/e/fe8bab5dd4a37947ef24ec8c238e91980a2ab816.png)

**Goal:**  
I think I want to track OEE, Machine across months and days instead of just year.

**Background:**  
I had never heard of a slope chart before, but it looks like the thing that would make it easy to see the performance changes.

Right now, I have 60 day bar charts of the machines that are organized so you can kind of scroll through them, and sort of go back-forth till you kind of get what this slope chart would relay more succinctly.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/are-slope-charts-complicated-possible-in-perspective/65899/2 "2022-10-31T19:39:53Z")

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I could see getting this done in Vison, though it would be very Java Intensive, and very far from trivial. I am not sure if JFree has an axis type for this type of cart or not.

As far as perspective goes, I don't think there is any way to make the current charting options work for this. You would need to get pretty deep into AmCharts to even know if it is possible. A very quick search yielded nothing for me.

You could build a custom module to add a chart component to make this possible, though again, very far from trivial.

I would think that a Multi-series Bar chart would be the standard way to show data like this, and that is definitely possible in Vision and Perspective.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/d/4d46942548cb60a8dc644ed0c25f02767fc1abf5.png)

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**Author:** ![zacharyw.larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacharyw.larson/32/23749_2.png) [@zacharyw.larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacharyw.larson)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/are-slope-charts-complicated-possible-in-perspective/65899/3 "2023-02-07T19:37:03Z")

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What about these kinds of maps for graphical inventories?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/5/756315e2b7e30673f1606bdceacb6dd5a48a8237.png)