HowTo: Bullet Charts in Reporting Services 2005

In my last post, I showed a dashboard in SSRS 2005 that included sparklines, inline bar charts and bullet charts.  As I mentioned there is good MSDN article on how to do inline charts but the Bullet chart took a little more thought.

As one of my colleagues has pointed out, these aren't bullet charts in the truest sense that Stephen Few designed them as they don't show the "bullet's path" running through them, however I think they serve the same purpose albeit in a simplistic way.

The charts are made using 100% stacked bars with three data values for each "zone" of your chart:

• The section below your marker;
• The marker itself (which of course only shows if it falls in that zone); and
• The section above your marker.

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Also read related article by the same author: "How to: Bullet Charts in Reporting Services 2008"