Stacked bar charts

The stacked bar chart displays the priorities for a selected view and all criteria. Criteria priorities are taken into account when the chart is drawn. By clicking the check boxes in the criteria list, you can show and hide the contributions of the criteria.

stacked bar chart

Ranking schemes

In stacked bar charts, black triangles that indicate the total score for each element. You have two options to calculate the total score:

To toggle between the two options, right-click the chart and select Ranking Scheme.

Note: Use the default ranking scheme, Positive - Negative, as a standard. This ranking scheme was developed and used for years, and has proven to provide the most intuitive results in most situations.

Disagreement indicators

If you right-click the stacked bar chart and select Show Disagreement Indicators, you can show the Disagreement Indicators in the stacked bar chart. The level of disagreement is calculated for each element and is based on the priorities of the element for the criteria in the chart. If the criteria priorities for an element are similar (as for element A, below) the level of disagreement is low. If the criteria priorities are different (as for element B, below) the disagreement level is high.

Low disagreements are drawn to the left in the chart and high disagreements are drawn to the right. The disagreements are connected by red lines.

You can sort by disagreement (at Top or at Bottom), to display in order where disagreement is at its most or its least.

Criteria priorities

When stacked bar charts and stacked XY charts are displayed, you can take criteria priorities into account. To understand how criteria priorities affect charts, see “Using criteria priorities in charts.”


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