XY-Scatter Chart In SSRS Won't Display Points
- by Dalin Seivewright
I'm a bit confused with this one.
I have a Dataset with a BackupDate and a BackupTime as well as a BackupType. The BackupDate is comprised of 12 characters from the left of a datetime string within a table. The BackupTime is comprised of 8 characters from the right of that same datetime string. So for example: BackupDate would be 'December 12 2008' and the BackupTime would be '12:53PM.'
I have added an XY-scatter chart to the report. I've added a 'series' value for the BackupType (so one can distinguish between a Full/Incr/Log backup). I've added a category value of BackupDate and set the Scale for the X-axis from the Min of BackupDate to the Max of BackupDate. I've then added an item to the Values with the Y variable set to BackupTime and the X variable set to BackupDate. The interval for the Y-axis is 12:00AM to 11:59PM and the formatting for the labels is 'hh:mmtt'.
The BackupTime matches the format of the Y-axis. The BackupDate matches the format of the X-axis. 10 entries are retrieved by my Dataset and the Legend is properly populated by the BackupType field.
No points are being plotted on the graph and no markers/pointers are shown if they are enabled. There should be a point on the graph for every point in time of each day there is a backup of a specific type.
Am I missing something? Does anyone know of a good tutorial dealing specifically with XY-scatter graphs and using them in a way I intend?
I am using the 2005 version of SSRS rather than the 2008 version.
Screenshot of what my chart currently looks like:
In case it could be dataset related:
SELECT TOP (10) backup_type, LTRIM(RTRIM(LEFT(backup_finish_date,
12))) AS BackupDate, LTRIM(RTRIM(RIGHT(backup_finish_date, 8))) AS BackupTime
FROM DBARepository.Backup_History
As requested, here are the results of this query. There is a Where clause to constrain the results to a specific database of a specific server that was not included in the above SQL Query.
Log Dec 26 2008 12:00PM
Log Dec 27 2008 4:00AM
Log Dec 27 2008 8:00AM
Log Dec 27 2008 12:00PM
Log Dec 27 2008 4:00PM
Log Dec 27 2008 8:00PM
Database Dec 27 2008 10:01PM
Log Dec 28 2008 12:00AM
Log Dec 28 2008 4:00AM
Log Dec 28 2008 8:00AM
