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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 19 04:09:51 -0700 2005 ------- Before I answer some of the detailed questions of yours let me put the issue in the overall context. This example is just a hobby of mine and does not need to be solved with whatever circumventions and tricks. But all the same I think it is in its kind something that could be very handy in business - but only if you tackle the problem from the opposite side as I outlined in my block beginning with "Imagine ...". (E.g. compare the effect and timeshift of promotion campaigns with sales results, compare the effect of promotion channels depending on the type of goods; etc etc). So it is in the first place an attempt to make you think about creating a graph module (standalone or as a part of your drawing application) that can be freely linked to Calc values as I described it. Context details: I could have based on my numbers a lot of additional comparison possibilities. E.g. whether the curves are similar to each other (over different seasons) or if the pattern is changing; the effect of the proximity of the runs on the result (can also be negative if the recovery time is too short) or just the speed of decline due to my aging. As I also have intermediate times stored in my Calcs (e.g. for a flat piece and for an ascending one of the track) there are many more comparisons possible. Details: the x-axis reflecting the dates in the year (or season) cannot be based on the actual dates but on the (additional column of) days elapsed since the beginning of the year (or season). So I get the correct spacing for every entry of running time in the appropriate column. But the text of the scale are these days the axis is based on (in a regular fashion: 20,40,60 etc) and not the dates - and these days have no meaning to a user. My idea that the actual dates of the table entries should be marked on the 0-line of the x-axis is just an ideal which can lead to unsolvable space problems especially when you combine different tables. What would come near to that ideal was an equally regular scale in a date format. But as the actual date column cannot be used as a useful axis base, a retranslation of our elapsed days in actual dates would even be more complicated. Facit: it could be a handy additional function to use calendar dates as a base for an axis to give the spacing. Thanks and best regards Bruno Naumann --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
