Changing display options on a Pareto or Bar chart

When a Pareto or bar chart is displayed on your screen, you can set options such as whether bars are two-dimensional or three-dimensional, which pattern to display on the bars, and how axis lines are drawn.

To set these options and more, right-click on the Pareto or bar chart and then click Display Options. Alternately, choose Display Options from the Options menu.

Dimension

You can choose whether to display the bars with a two-dimensional or three-dimensional appearance. Click on 2D or 3D to select the display you prefer.

Gridlines

You can choose to draw horizontal (X Axis) or vertical (Y Axis) lines on the chart.

Data pattern

Use this list to choose how bars will be filled with color. If you often print charts, you can minimize the ink used by choosing a patterned display instead of a Solid display.

Maximum distinct bars

To focus attention on the bars with the most defects, you can choose the maximum number of bars to show on your Pareto or bar chart. If the data retrieved for the chart has defects for more than the specified number of bars, this data will be combined into the last bar on the chart and titled "Other", as shown in the examples below.

To remove the limit on the number of bars displayed, set this option to 0.


Maximum distinct bars set to 0; one bar is displayed for each item		Maximum distinct bars set to 8; individual bars are shown for the top 7 items

Axis tick style and Axis line thickness

These display options will apply to both the x-axis and the y-axis.

Display actual count values

This setting determines whether to display the defect count on the y-axis of a Pareto chart or on the x-axis of a Bar chart.

Show bars with no Defects

To display bars for items without defects, select this check box.

If you are sorting by Defect, the chart will display one bar for every defect that is assigned to the Processes being charted.

For example: if you are generating a Pareto chart for one process, and 10 defect reasons have been defined for this process, this Pareto chart will display 10 bars.

If you are sorting by a traceability field, Process, Part Number, or Event, the chart will display one bar for every item that was found in the data retrieval.

For example: if you are sorting by the Machine traceability field, and the data that was retrieved for this chart referenced three different machines, then the Pareto chart will display three bars.

Save as default

To save your selections as the new default settings for this workstation, select the Save as default check box and then click OK.

Note: The default setting for Show bars with no Defects is configured only in the Administration module.
In the DMS Charts and Reports module, changing this setting and then selecting the Save as default check box will not change the default setting for this chart component. For more details, see DMS Chart Defaults.