Thank you for being a tech guru in Excel and sharing your knowledge with the world. More people like this I say!

I have a problem with Excel at work which I am struggling to solve.

I need to create a dynamic chart (using drop down menus on a dashboard) but with 20 to 50 projects to feed into the dynamic chart. In addition the chart I am using is one of Chandoo’s milestone charts which has a dummy line graph always on zero value, and then column graphs (formatted to look like error bars ‘i.e. narrow’). I have thought abouyt some of the methods you have put up but the problem is ther is only one static x axis, i.e. the month. The other x-axis is not static it is the category name of the milestone for (whcih I display at the end of the column graph). Of course the y-axis is the height of the column graph. So if I had multiple proejcts I am not sure how to combine these two types of graphs into a dynamic drop down grph on a dashboard.

Would this be possible?

Thanks kind regards

Geoff Lang
Canberra, Australia

This is much more complicated, but if you’re clever with formulas you could probably make it work.

You might check out Debra Dalgleish’s dependent lists approach for data validation (http://www.contextures.com/xldataval02.html) in order to get the subdepartments after a department has been selected.

I am trying the same chart however i have a Dept and sub depts.

When i used the get chart with indirect option it allows me only 4 indirect functions that could we written, I am an unable to use the above method, because when i select my Dept, i need to get the various sub depts graphs as well in seperate graphs, Any idea who could i do that

Regards,
Renato,

1. I am graphing 4 different factors, each with a mean and a mean bar. So there are two series per factor. I can get them to show up on the graph together, but they avoid being titled properly.
2. My title reads out some values, then the factor i want, then more values, instead of JUST the factor I would like. Not sure how to bipass this.
3. All other non-selected graphs show up on the bottom at zero. i read the other comment pertaining to this, but there are no empty slots, like you said there might be.
4. Finally, How can I go about hiding the original chunk of data and just show the selected range in the second chunk of data?

Thanks, its alright if you can’t answer all my questions.

thanks!