Recently Andy Kriebel posted a great tip on how to How to Create a Combination Chart with Overlapping Bars & a Line which reminded me of something that I’d done for a Spanish blog which used something similar but within the same dimension.

Have a look here, even if you don’t read Spanish just click on a city and look at the chart at the bottom: Japan climate

Here’s the problem the original data had all 4 measures within one dimension only, but I wanted to show them all at the same time including the use of tooltips.

In this example the type dimension had, snow, rain, max temp and min temperatures within a single value field.

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We could Not only that but I wanted two of them to be bars and other two measures to be lines which made things harder. The first attempted looked something like the picture below.

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But then the light bulb moment happened and these are the steps to create a 4 measure chart from the same dimension:

  •  Create the bullet chart and hide the dimensions that are not needed. The key point is hiding not excluding as that would change the data in the view.
  • Duplicate the dimension
  • Create a double axis chart and add the duplicated dimension to colour
  • Change the chart type needed and hide the measures that are showing on the first axis.

That’s it your 4 measure chart is complete.

Now the only thing you need to do is to amend the tooltips to show only the measures you want.

I hope you have found this quick tip useful.

Thank you for reading

David