# Stacked Column Graph

**URL:** <https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/stacked-column-graph/1493>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/stacked-column-graph/1493 "2020-03-03T22:01:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![gocallaghan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gocallaghan](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/gocallaghan)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/stacked-column-graph/1493/1 "2020-03-03T22:01:49Z")

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Hi All,  
Just using Phocas to create a column graph as a stacked type. Need some help with getting it to display similarly to one we use from our older reporting system.

 ![Top 5 Brands](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/phocassoftware/original/1X/e9c43aabc9a9be965b5056ed51d8e8877a10f455.jpeg)

Dimension = Top 5 Brands  
Period = Yesterday  
Measures = Sales$, Profit$, Quantity#

I am having trouble getting the x-axis to stack by brand. The Phocas graph will only stack all brands by date. Can anyone assist me to acheive this result? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![richj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/richj/32/1412_2.png) [@richj](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/richj)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/stacked-column-graph/1493/2 "2020-03-04T12:28:48Z")

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Hi gocallaghan, Welcome to the User Group 😄

I just fought with the Graphing section of Phocas, trying to get something similar to your nice stacked bar chart to no avail!

One way I managed to get something similar, was to creat 5 seperate stack bars, and put them all on a dashboard, on the same line, side by side. This achieves Something, but it’s not perfect. Each individual chart set to the same colour scheme too.

Then I get something like this. The legends dissapear when the dashboard is small enough.

 ![Annotation Phocas 2020-03-04 122550](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/phocassoftware/original/1X/80815d647b1926e17732015ce3280b00c0bf8a42.png)

Sorry about the Black bars, I had to “Redact” my company data of course.

I agree with you that this type of multi-bar-stack would be a lots neater method as a new option in Phocas. Maybe you can post it into the New-Ideas secton? Unless anyone else can help us out?

Warm regards,

Richard

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**Author:** ![gocallaghan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gocallaghan](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/gocallaghan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/stacked-column-graph/1493/3 "2020-03-04T21:23:37Z")

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Hi Richard,  
Thanks for the reply and the workaround, I might post that up as an idea as we do use that method to display data across several dimensions.

Cheers,  
Geoff.