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3.1.4 Horizontal Bar Charts

                       BAR CHART OF JOBCOUNT

  JOBCLASS   Job Input Class                              JOBCOUNT
             |
  A          |**********************************             3,432
             |
  B          |****************                               1,587
             |
  C          |***                                              333
             |
  D          |**************************                     2,614
             |
  X          |*********                                        927
             |
             ----------+---------+---------+---------+
                      1000      2000      3000      4000

                           Job Executions

Figure 3-4.  Sample Horizontal Bar Chart


Horizontal bar charts, sometimes called histograms, are most
often used for showing item comparisons and are especially
helpful in emphasizing differences between items (for
example, revenue versus expenses by processing shift).  They
should NOT be used to display information over time (use a
vertical bar chart for this purpose).

MICF allows you to generate simple horizontal bar charts and
more complex presentations with related groups of horizontal
bars and stacked bars that illustrate the composition of a
value (for example, revenue by cost center).  The more
complex horizontal bar charts are discussed in the next two
sections.

When you generate a simple horizontal bar chart, you can use
optional parameters to create logical groups of horizontal
bars.  For example, you could create a chart of revenue by
cost center over invoice category as a group of
revenue-by-cost-center bars for each invoice category.

The chart bars can represent actual values, percentages of
the total value, or cumulative percentages.  Parameters are
provided to control the chart axis scale, data element
labels, printed value formats, the color and pattern used to
fill the bars, and the color of chart text.

Figure 3-4 is a sample horizontal bar chart of the number of
job executions by job class.  The exact number of executions
is provided to the right of each bar for each job class.

To create a horizontal bar chart, select the Horizontal Bar
Chart option from any of the following menus:

o  Direct Inquiry Color Graphics Menu
o  Direct Inquiry Printer Graphics Menu
o  Structured Inquiry Color Graphics Menu
o  Structured Inquiry Printer Graphics Menu