Variable Width on Bar Chart

Unfortunately, I too have had to create something different that required variable x-axis on bar charts. It is becoming a common visual that Spotfire does not support out of the box.

Hello

It seems that there is still a need here, much more of a Mekko chart.

I came across this similar thread here, which remained without an answer.

https://community.tibco.com/questions/mekko-chart-spotfire

In my opinion, it's the option of dynamic bar width that is bringing added value here.

Specifically, competitors of Spotfire are providing it and i'm quite sure Spotfire could benefit from it.

This feature will help Oil and Gas industry to create Well schematic chart (wellbore, hole section plot)

• Well schematic chart is one of the most common charts used during the well planning phase and performance reporting.
• Varying the bar width on stack bar charts, one can easily get a simple well schematics and much visualization than current stacked bars with a single constant width.
• For general users outside O&G, just like bubble plot, varying bar width allows users to show 1 more dimension.

You can do this by using the expression function "BinBySpecificLimits()"

See attached.

This will be a big help for Oil and gas customers by correlating the bar width with hole size, you will get simple wellbore schematic.

I have taken the liberty to refine this Idea to refer to variable width bars on bar charts only and removed the references to step charts since these are easily accomplished with a line chart in Spotfire. 

Similarly, these variable widths for bar charts could be added:

referenced from TIBCO Community Q&A and separate customer discussions: https://community.tibco.com/questions/variable-width-bar-chart

You can already do this via a line chart.  Just go to properties, appearance and click draw as step lines.