Parameters for Area, Line, and Time Series Charts

A list of parameters for SAP Analytics Cloud chart types that identify trends, including Area and Line charts.

Chart types such as Area and Line are grouped under the Trend section in the Builder panel.

For an overview of the different chart types, see Charts overview.

Trend chart parameters

Use an Area chart to show percentage of total sales for a limited number of regions.

Some chart types require a specific number of measures or dimensions and will either not work or not provide good results if you use the wrong parameters.

Area or Line charts
Required or optional parameters:

1+ - minimum

1 - maximum

0+ - optional

NA - Not Applicable
Measures or Dimensions	Parameter	Area	Line
Measures	Measures	1+	NA
	Left Y-Axis	NA	1+
	Right Y-Axis	NA	0+
Dimensions	Dimensions	0+	1+
	Color	0+	0+
	Trellis	0+	0+

Use a Time Series chart to view sales revenue trends of a product throughout a range of years.

Time Series chart
Required or optional parameters:

1+ - minimum

1 - maximum

0+ - optional
Measures or Dimensions	Parameter	Time Series
Measures	Measures	1+
Dimensions	Time	1+
Dimensions	Color	0+