Data Driven Approach

We can also display the Reference line and Reference Range using the Data Fields of Reference Start Date and Reference End Date.

In the above example, ‘Planned Start’ measure is added in Reference Start Date and ‘Planned End’ measure is added in Reference End Date. ‘Task’ measure is added to Reference Text which will display the text on the Reference Line.

From the above example, the Reference Line is displayed using dotted lines, the Range pattern is displayed using checkerboard and the text is displayed on the lines.

Steps to configure:

1. Go to the Format Pane->References.

1. Format the lines and the range using the options as shown below:

1. Line type has four options:

• Dotted

• Solid

• Dashed

• Dashed-dotted

1. The width of the Line can be set using Line Stroke option and the color can be set using Line Color option.

2. There are fourteen options to set the Range Pattern:

Text can be formatted using the weight, color and text type options.