Hey all,
Struggling a bit with a customer requirement for a "road map" type chart. See attachment for customer mockup. To keep this short, there's a source system (left hand of chart), target system (region color on right) and a date of transition between the two (migration date which the X Axis and value within the bar).
The data would look something like this (in simplest form, with some other supporting attributes)
Source Target MigrationDate
A B 10/1/2016
A C 9/30/2017
A D 11/1/2017
E F 12/31/2015
G H 3/1/2016
G I 10/1/2018
J K 10/1/2019
and so on...
Having a difficult time getting the time dimension and label onto the chart, as we aren't dealing with measures here. I've also tried converting the MigrationDate to a "days between" value of 2 dates (beginning of year and the migration date) so I'd get something like 365, but then I lose the date dimension and get number of days in the X axis. There will also be some supporting data around the data set which will need to be selected on in order to to present a subset of the information. I've tried other tools (Dashboards, Crystal) but I run into a similar issue. I think the tools are struggling with the fact that the date isn't a measure and the multiple dimensions of data.
The next step I was going to take was to try to create a static timeline at the bottom, maybe with an input control adjustable "Start Date" - this may allow me to create static labels below the chart based on the days between measure. Not sure if that may be simpler by overlaying 2 charts, but that's never a good solution either.
Trying to think a bit outside the box on how to accomplish this or something similar...any insights? Not sure if custom javascript charts would be an option...would probably need something exactly like this that fits the bill. Don't think we have the correct resources to create our own.
Or maybe another visualization of the same data....