I know I can do it horizontally but, because people normally hold their phones vertically and also because it would be great if the user could scroll to take in a long image like this, I’d like to do it vertically.
I’ve looked but, as far as I can tell, vertical orientation isn’t possible in AppSheet. Am I correct about that? Could I make a horizontal chart like this that could be scrolled so that the whole thing didn’t have to fit in the narrow screen of a phone?
I’m think that I’d like to display charts like this in a dashboard view, which seems to be quite flexible in regard to scrolling. However, if the charts can only be horizontal or can only be of certain dimensions, that may not help much.
As I’ve been thinking some more about this it occurred to me that I might want to utilize a text solution that I can prepare on my Google spreadsheet. It’s taken me some time to get this ready but from now on the spreadsheet should do all of the work for me. What you see will be contained in a single cell and displayed as such, probably in the “detail” part of a deck or table view:
I see now that the tips of the bars look jagged in a way they did not in my spreadsheet. I hope they don’t look this way in my app but, even if they do, I still may go with this.
To get more definition in the lengths of the bars I’m using full blocks with end pieces that are 1/8 to 7/8 of a block in length:
That seems to be the problem. Oh well, I may go with this anyway. My first I idea was to make approximate illustrations with simple ascii characters. This is probably better than that. Or, I might just give up on the detail that the smaller blocks bring.
Not quite as fine (narrow) as the other one but it has a fairly nice appearance.
I guess my question about horizontal bar graphs has been answered: AppSheet doesn’t do it at this point, right?
Also, @Lynn, I’d like to ask if you have done what you need to do to put the bar graphs together all in AppSheet. I know how to do it in Google Sheets (I use REPT() with some other calculations). Is it done the same way in AppSheet? Thanks again!
