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He initiated the SUCCESS formula of the *International Business Communication Standards (*[*IBCS*](http://www.ibcs-a.org/)*®)*, a community driven set of design rules for successful reports and presentations*.* Today, the HICHERT®SUCCESS presentation concept counts among the leading methods of ensuring successful business communication. Visualizations of business figures have a significant importance for HICHERT®SUCCESS. Visualizations help make business data easier to understand. It helps to generate a clear picture of business critical data. *You can find more details about Hichert report templates at [http://www.hichert.com/](http://www.hichert.com/)* **HICHERT using MicroStrategy** Recently, I came across a reporting requirement when a CFO wanted to implement “Hichert Charts” in MicroStrategy. There is no in-built chart type in MicroStrategy for Hichert charts, but MicroStrategy provides lot of graph options that we can use to achieve the similar visualization. In this blog, I will discuss about how to create Hichert style horizontal bar chart in MicroStrategy. **Create Hichert Style Horizontal Bar Chart in MicroStrategy** *Let’s look at one of the IBCS chart template below: ![img-1-10.png](https://blog.e-zest.com/hs-fs/hubfs/img-1-10.png?width=633&height=332&name=img-1-10.png)* The above chart shows plan variance and plan variance % in addition to plan across city. Let's first create a basic chart in MicroStrategy by following below steps: - Select the Horizontal Bar Chart MicroStrategy Report / Document. - Create a document in MicroStrategy. Assign Data Source to it. - Select a horizontal bar graph and add it in the document. - Add the required Attribute and Metric for the chart, for e.g. if we want to build a chart like above, then select City as an attribute and Plan Variance% as a Metric. - Add the thresholds to show positive variance in green colour and negative in red colour. - Change chart properties. MicroStrategy Web has limited chart options. Hence, to use this we will have to go to MicroStrategy Developer tool and make this chart look like a HICHERT chart. Open the document in MicroStrategy Developer. Right click on the chart and Select Graph Options. Change the chart properties as below: - **Reduce Gap Width**: Reduce the gap width to 90 to make the horizontal bars slimmer. ![img-2-6.png](https://blog.e-zest.com/hs-fs/hubfs/img-2-6.png?width=539&name=img-2-6.png) - **Add Custom Line at 0:** Add a custom line at 0. Also check “Always Include Zero in this Scale” option. This will ensure that we always see default line at 0. ![img-3-2.png](https://blog.e-zest.com/hs-fs/hubfs/img-3-2.png?width=558&name=img-3-2.png) - **Show Labels**: Select Label Location as “Inside Maximum”. Select Label Box Style to “Single”. Colour the box with grey colour. ![](https://blog.e-zest.com/hs-fs/hubfs/img-4-2.png?width=579&name=img-4-2.png "img-4-2.png") You can also hide Category Axes Labels if required. Now the horizontal bar chart looks like below: ![](https://blog.e-zest.com/hs-fs/hubfs/img-5-1.png?width=224&height=354&name=img-5-1.png "img-5-1.png") As we have just seen, by using wide range of options provided, we can achieve HICHERT Chart Style in MicroStrategy.   - - - ### Similar Blog [Comparison of Business Intelligence Tools](https://blog.e-zest.com/comparison-of-business-intelligence-tools/) [While selecting the](https://blog.e-zest.com/comparison-of-business-intelligence-tools/)[Business Intelligence](https://blog.e-zest.com/business-intelligence/) Tool, many times, decision makers are interested to have some sort of quick comparison ... 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