OpenCDSS / cdss-app-tstool-main

Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS) TSTool application main program
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Graph - evaluate automatically splitting graph when units don't match #250

Open smalers opened 1 year ago

smalers commented 1 year ago

Subject of the issue

Because TSTool reads data from many sources, it can be difficult to automatically format graphs. For example, no title is defined. Currently, incompatible units result in a warning. The user can continue graphing, but the time series values may not show well because of the different units.

An option would be to automatically split the output into separate graph areas based on units. Users can do this themselves by editing the graph properties, but the average user may not know about this functionality.

Implementing the auto-split may be an irritation to some users. Maybe when the warning is shown provide an option to automatically split. This could be accomplished by adjusting the time series product in memory before it is displayed. The warning is helpful because it alerts users that they may be selecting time series with different units and often they ether need to select alternate time series or adjust a workflow to ensure that users are set.

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