Click here to see the SAS code. Click here to see the example.This is a 'dashboard' example, created using 'bar' charts (rather than gauges or CSFs). ergo, the name 'DashBard' (sounds like dashboard, but it is a dashboard that has been innundated with bars ... ie, it's been "bar'd" -- it's good that my graphs are better than my jokes! ;) I started with the examples from examples on the iDashes website... http://www.idashes.net/dash_exec_scenarios_banking.asp The iDashes dashboard is very fancy/pretty, with cute gauges, but people are finally starting to revolt against the 'cute' dashboards, and lean more towards simple/functional dashboards that only display the important information, and are simpler and less cluttered. I changed the iDashes data slightly, and then created my own SAS dashboard using just simple bar charts. First I wrote a macro that can take several parameters describing the bar chart I want (the binning/values, the colors, the titles, and where to locate the actual-value marker, etc. Note that this macro gives you total control of the min/max of each bar segment (ie, the "binning") rather than auto-scaling, or always starting the bar at zero. This gives you total control, and also (as demonstrated in the last 2 bar charts) you don't have to make all the segments the same size (a nice/flexible feature, I think!) I then create the 8 bar charts I need (saving the output in named gsegs). And, I display them on the same page using "proc greplay" and a custom 4x2 template. The good thing about greplay is it gives you *complete* control over designing the template, and it also preserves the charttip/drilldown capability. And, for a final "nice touch", I annotate a gradient/shaded background behind each bar chart :) Since the "Operating Expense" chart is sort of "opposite" from the other charts (ie, a low value is good, and a high value is bad), I reverse the gradient background in that one. Back to Samples Index