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Inserting and formatting charts

Overview

This chapter explains how to create, edit, and format charts in Web Intelligence

documents using the Java Report Panel.

This chapter tells you:

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about charts and Web Intelligence chart templates

• how to create charts

• how to change tables and charts to different chart types

• removing charts

• setting page layout for charts

• formatting charts

• copying charts

Note: If you want to distribute a Web Intelligence document as a Microsoft Excel

spreadsheet, you can create charts using Web Intelligence, save the document as an Excel

spreadsheet, and then make your formatting changes in Excel. See ”Saving Web

Intelligence documents as Excel Spreadsheets” on page 399.

About charts and chart templates

Web Intelligence offers standard chart formats to graphically display your business

information.

Choosing the appropriate chart template

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.