I am using Jaspersoft Studio version 6.3.2.final using JasperReports Library version 6.3.2 (Community Edition). I have a weird thing happening with the colors in a stacked bar chart : between 2 runs of the report it happens that the colors in the stacked bars swap around or 1 color swallows one of the other colors. And the next I run it it either runs correctly again (or not). There seems to be no apparent reason for this behaviour (or I can't find one at least), it is just random. The query I use is as follows : select category, color, nrofrecords from <table> group by category, color order by category, color. Category can have 10 values maximum, color only 3 (red-orange-green). When it runs correctly it looks like this : But when it goes wrong red and orange or red and green are switched around or green swallows orange or any other combination occurs. FYI : x axis = category, y axis is nrofrecords and series = color