# Bar Chart Tool with Selectable Bars

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bar-chart-tool-with-selectable-bars/1899>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 4, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bar-chart-tool-with-selectable-bars/1899 "2010-06-04T21:08:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lancekornoelje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@lancekornoelje](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lancekornoelje)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bar-chart-tool-with-selectable-bars/1899/1 "2010-06-04T21:08:33Z")

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A feature that we are being asked for is the ability to select a bar component from a bar chart that enables the user to click through to another report, change other data displays, etc. This is a common feature we see on Microsoft Reporting Services, Silverlight, and other reporting tools we come across. I believe some of these features are available on the pie chart tool, but not on the bar chart. I can write some of my own logic to do this using the mouse on-click event and the x-y coordinates compared to my dataset, but I think there could be a cleaner way to do this. Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bar-chart-tool-with-selectable-bars/1899/2 "2010-06-05T22:54:38Z")

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Maybe you could pick up the colour of the bar the user clicks on, as per [this post](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4758).

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bar-chart-tool-with-selectable-bars/1899/3 "2010-06-14T20:46:18Z")

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You could use a classic chart instead, use a bar renderer, and the classic chart allows for series selection.