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Adding charts to reports
Overview
This chapter explains how to add charts to Web Intelligence reports and edit the data
charts present.
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chart types available with Web Intelligence
• inserting and removing charts from reports
• transforming charts to different chart types
• modifying how data is included in charts
• duplicating and removing charts
For information on formatting charts, see ”Formatting charts” on page 133.
Available chart types
Web Intelligence offers standard chart formats to graphically display your business
information. You can select one of five basic chart types in Web Intelligence:
• bar charts
• line charts
• area charts
• pie charts
• radar, polar, and scatter charts
Bar charts
Bar charts display data in bar form, either vertically or horizontally. Bar charts are useful if
you want to compare similar groups of data; for example one time period to another.
There are five types of bar charts: grouped, bar and line, stacked, percent, and 3D.
Line charts
Line charts connect specific data values with lines, either horizontally or vertically. Line
charts are useful if you want to show trends or changes in data over time. There are five
types of line charts: mixed, stacked, percent, 3D, and 3D surface.
Area charts
Area charts are line charts in which the area between the lines and axis are filled in. Area
charts are useful if you want to emphasize the size of the total data in a report, as opposed
to the changes in the data. You may not want to use an area chart if you have a sharp
contrast between specific data points. Use a line chart instead.