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Charting
Charting concepts
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Charting concepts
Charting overview
Crystal Reports enables you to include sophisticated, colorful charts in your
reports. You can use charts any time you want to improve the usefulness of a
report.
For example, if you have a sales report grouped by Region with a subtotal of
Last Year’s Sales for each region, you can quickly create a chart that will
display Sales per Region.
You can chart on the following:
• Summary and subtotal fields.
• Detail, formula, and Running Total fields.
• Cross-Tab summaries.
• OLAP data.
You will typically chart on summary and subtotal information at the group
level. However, depending on the type of data you are working with, you can
create an Advanced, Cross-Tab, or OLAP grid chart for your report.
Chart layouts
The Chart Expert provides four layouts that correspond to certain sets of data.
You can create charts with any of the following layouts, and depending on the
data you are using, you can change the chart from one layout to another.