# Chart customization **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [February 10, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978 "2012-02-10T16:45:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/1 "2012-02-10T16:45:22Z")
hi, i’m currently developing an analysis tool using the classic chart component. i need a bar chart with mainly 3 features: - values on each bar - different scales, because there are 2 kinds of measure, side by side problem 1: the bar chart doen’t offer multiple scales, so i’ve gone classic… but the classic chart doesn’t have value on each bar! (i think 😒 ) problem 2: i need also to show a sort of correlation between the 2 series, so it could be a good feature the shifting of the second bar set (now completely overlapped to the other). is there a solution? thank you very much! ---
**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:** [February 10, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/2 "2012-02-10T18:09:42Z")
Can you draw a picture of what you’re going for? I’m not sure that we’re going to be able to do it, but a picture would help. ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/3 "2012-02-13T09:00:44Z")
here i am: 1- Bar Chart we already have: - value labels are not customizable (on the top, horizontal) ☹ - same scale ☹ - no overlapped bars 2- Classic Chart we already have: - no value labels ☹ - overlapped bars layers: if the value of the bar behind is lower we can’t see it ☹ - different scales 3- GIMP edited Chart 🙂 - value labels 🙂 - side by side bars 🙂 - different scales 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/4 "2012-02-13T09:01:38Z")
sorry… hi res: ![](http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/4yvfs.png) ---
**Author:** ![ecujak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@ecujak](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ecujak)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/5 "2012-02-16T15:31:13Z")
I am interested as well. ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/6 "2012-03-14T10:03:19Z")
nothing new about this in 7.4? i’m testin it but i can’t see anything new… ---
**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/7 "2012-03-14T15:03:24Z")
No, nothing new in 7.4. We will keep this in mind though. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/8 "2012-05-09T20:16:45Z")
Ok I spent some time working on this, and the good news is that it can be done (today!). The bad news is that they way to do it is a bit of a hack. There are two “hacks” to make this work. 1. You need to put filler columns full of nulls into your datasets to get the bars to offset correctly. I didn’t make this up!, it’s straight out of the [JFreeChart examples](http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Chart/JFreeChartDualAxisDemo5.htm). 2. You’ll need to run a script that turns on the labels for the bars. Note that the chart gets re-created when some of its properties change, so you may want to run this script periodically on a time to make sure the labels don’t dissapear. I’ve attached a window that makes use of these two concepts. Good luck. [Multi Axis Bar Chart Example.proj](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/7/75c1387c121fb46f23f7a145e22f5c8d283f5831.proj) (16.7 KB) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/6/654ef67f09bd3b595b0984a81f22c44313d9b31e.png) ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/9 "2012-05-10T14:23:08Z")
good work. anyway this doesn’t fit my needs ☹ because: - the label is hidden if the columns are too thin (that is always because my number of columns is almost always \> 20) - the bars have shadows and gradients, not so nice for our customers - i must use category bars (i think): the X axis values (datetime) can’t have an angle ---
**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/10 "2012-05-11T22:20:03Z")
The bar chart component does have a property called “Category Axis Label Angle” which allows the X-axis values to be angled and more visible. ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/11 "2012-05-14T07:58:27Z")
> [@](#): > > 2. You'll need to run a script that turns on the labels for the bars. Note that the chart gets re-created when some of its properties change, so you may want to run this script periodically on a time to make sure the labels don't dissapear. as i expected i get labels moving on the top and then again on the bars at every graph auto-refresh. i suppose the cause is the timed overriding of the bar renderer instead of its substitution. is there a way to have the renderer substituted? tnx ---
**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:** [May 14, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/12 "2012-05-14T16:06:54Z")
You should be able to do whatever you want to the position of the labels. Take a look at the script that makes the labels appear and you’ll notice all sorts of angle and position arguments that you can play with. ---
**Author:** ![marioquark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@marioquark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marioquark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chart-customization/3978/13 "2014-02-12T13:08:52Z")
the customization using python is unbelievable 🙂 thank you for the example