Graph with String as Y-Axis

[cmdrb]

Need help on what graph to use for this:

WorkOrder.jpg

[altenbach]

I would use a 1D array of clusters where each element is a string and a slider.

You can also draw everything on a 2D picture (text, filled boxes, etc)

[cmdrb]

Thanks for the reply. If a slider will be used, how are you going to plot the FAIL?

[GerdW]

Hi CmdrB,

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@cmdrb wrote:

Thanks for the reply. If a slider will be used, how are you going to plot the FAIL?

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A slider control can have more than just one slider. And there are several options for the fill color(s)…

[altenbach]

Quick example:

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[Bob_Schor]

I looked at your graph, and thought "How would I make a plot with a horizontal bar, the first 90% Green, the next 8% Red, and the last 2% Gray?", and came up with what I was going to suggest here as a possibility.  But when I clicked "Reply", and re-read the Title of the Post, I asked myself "What did @cmdrb mean by Graph with String as Y-Axis?".  That's when I paid attention to the Y tick labels "Op-01" ...  Oops, I just figured out how to do that, as well (maybe) ...

So let me forget about labeling the Y Axis for the moment, and talk about how to make a horizontal plot that goes from 0 to 100, with G% colored Green, R% colored Red, and the remaining 100-G-R% colored Gray.  Let's place this line at height H.  Plot three 2-point lines:

((0, H), (G, H)), ((G, H), (G+R, H)), ((G+R, H), (100, H)).  Color the first line Green, the second Red, the third Gray.  You can also increase the thickness of the lines, but to get as thick a bar as you show on your diagram, you'd probably need to plot several identical lines, varying the Y value by about .05 each time, as the thickest line (5) appears to be about 0.05 units high when plotted.  And trust me, unless you've done a whole lot of LabVIEW XY Plotting, making such a graph is not a lot of fun.

Here's what I got for my effort:

Operation Summary Graph FP.png

 I "colored" the three sub-plots "by hand" from the Graph Properties page, and also adjusted the Line thickness to the maximum.  I'm attaching a Snippet (saved as LabVIEW 2021) if you want to look at the code -- not so difficult, but I've not done much XY plotting, and figuring it out from the Help was, shall we say, not a big help (thank goodness for Examples).

Bob Schor

[altenbach]

Yes, I think the main(?) issue was that they wanted strings as Y axis markers. (QUOTE: "Graph with String as Y-Axis")

This idea would have helped!

But xy graphs also have horizontal bar plots, no need to jump through flaming hoops!

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😄

[altenbach]

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@altenbach wrote:

But xy graphs also have horizontal bar plots, no need to jump through flaming hoops!

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Here's how this could look like:

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[altenbach]

And here's how you could add text using the plotImages Overlay

(quick draft. could easily be tuned to the actual size and marker positions)

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Of course at one point it would probably be easier to just use a 2D image for everything....

[Bob_Schor]

@Altenbach, you never cease to amaze us!

Bob Schor