I have a page where users register and can make their personal diet plan etc. I am trying to make some graphs with built-in VS dashboards. I am using VS 2015 and SQL Server Management Studio 15.0.18206.0 if that matters.
My problems are the following:
Dashboard values default to SUM function, which I am not able to change, as you see in the first picture, but I kind of managed to solve this problem with the help of SQL (SELECT DISTINCT, SELECT TOP(1) etc.)
When I am trying to make a dashboard to show track of user's vitals and activity, which is the core of my statistics, time defaults to YEAR and the result end up like the second picture.
There is nothing I can do to change these and I just made irrelevant graphs to fill the page, but it's a shame because I planned to make a lot of graphs with the table you see in the third picture.
If it helps, the XML code generated from the last dashboard is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Dashboard>
<Title Text="YearDashBoard" />
<DataSources>
<SqlDataSource ComponentName="DataSource1">
<Name>UserHistory1</Name>
<Connection Name="foodConnectionString" FromAppConfig="true" />
<Query Type="SelectQuery" Name="UserHistory1" Distinct="true">
<Tables>
<Table Name="UserHistory" />
</Tables>
<Columns>
<Column Table="UserHistory" Name="CaloriesDate" />
<Column Table="UserHistory" Name="DailyCalories" />
<Column Table="UserHistory" Name="UserID" />
</Columns>
<Filter>[UserHistory.UserID] = 17</Filter>
</Query>
<ConnectionOptions CloseConnection="true" CommandTimeout="0" />
</SqlDataSource>
</DataSources>
<Items>
<Chart ComponentName="chartDashboardItem1" Name="Chart 1" DataSource="DataSource1" DataMember="UserHistory1">
<DataItems>
<Measure DataMember="DailyCalories" DefaultId="DataItem0" />
<Dimension DataMember="CaloriesDate" DefaultId="DataItem1" />
</DataItems>
<Arguments>
<Argument DefaultId="DataItem1" />
</Arguments>
<Panes>
<Pane Name="Pane 1">
<Series>
<Simple>
<Value DefaultId="DataItem0" />
</Simple>
</Series>
</Pane>
</Panes>
</Chart>
</Items>
<LayoutTree>
<LayoutGroup Weight="100">
<LayoutItem DashboardItem="chartDashboardItem1" Weight="100" />
</LayoutGroup>
</LayoutTree>
</Dashboard>
Finally, with the help of DevExpress technical team, I found out that the whole time there was an invisible scroll bar, but you had to mouse over it (!) while being on the "BINDING" tab of the menu.