Thanks for your reply. I tried with that, but it didn’t work at first, so I thought I was doing something wrong, but now it’s all fine. Thanks heaps for your help.

Regards
Henry

You can have more than two tiers. In my example, I have two columns of labels. For three tiers, you would use three columns of labels, arranged using the same logic.

Thanks for the great site. I have a situation where I wish to plot with more than just 2 categories of label… say

Tier 1 = Mechanical, Electrical, and Hydraulic
Tier 2 = as per your charts
Tier 3 = Country

Is this possible to do using fairly standard excel charts, or the only way is to adopt your “Individually Formatted Dual Category Labels” method? (The latter doesn’t give me the divider lines in the label).

Many thanks
Henry

As I stated in my previous comment, it is not possible to pass anything other than a worksheet range that will produce a category axis with categories and subcategories. You cannot pass a string that will do this, nor can you pass a 2D array. At least I haven’t been clever enough to find a way.

I’ve only dabbled with OWC, but my suspicion is that they also will not accept a string or array to produce a multi-level category axis.

Have now had a fair bit of success in rendering different types of charts in Access subforms from data in tables using vba to address OWC (10 and 11) chartspace objects, methods and properties. Basically have to get approriate sets of tab-separated strings of category names and values from the tables to pass to the .Set Data chDimCategories and chDimValues for each Series added.

Regarding your Defects chart, I haven’t been able to discover the correct way to pass info to chDimCategories about my requirements for true Categories and subCategories. I had to simulate your mix of cats/subs with a list of of names where the subcats were simply at the same level as the cats but offset (right-just) to appear as a hierarchy – a bit of a fudge!

I want to progress to a chart similar to the Defects chart where cats might be months and the subcats, a repeated set of names – such as income, expenses and balance, for one or more accounts.

Wonder if you can kindly provide a lead on what the sequence of names should look like in the string of cats passed into .SetData chDimCategories such that OWC will recognise a hierarchy of cats, sub-cats (and even sub-sub-cats?) – have noticed somewhere that there maybe some limit on the numbers of repeated names allowed.

Many thanks – John

I don’t know about charting in Access. But in Excel, you can’t pass an array as a delimited string and have the dual axis come out right. You need to use a worksheet range.