Inserting Charts into Reports 

Use

You can insert charts into your reports. You have two options:

You can insert a chart that is based on an entire data provider. You can assign either an existing data provider from the report or a completely new data provider to a chart of this kind. This kind of charts depicts the entire data provider and can be placed anywhere in the report. They have no relation to the group levels.

You can insert a context-sensitive chart that is located in a certain context of a certain data provider. This kind of chart depicts the context of a characteristic value from the group level in question. They are placed in a dynamic report section based on a data provider. You can, for example, display one chart for each characteristic value. The data of the particular chart then corresponds to the data of the query on which the characteristic value was filtered.

You need to manually adjust the cell size to fit the chart size.

If you inserted a chart in your report, you can then define default values for it.

Integration

You can edit charts in Report Designer. You use the Chart Designer tool for this purpose. More information: Editing Charts

Prerequisites

To display charts in Web applications and reports, you need Internet Graphics Server (IGS) 7.0.

Activities

To insert a chart and to define the chart properties, proceed as follows:

Inserting Charts that depict an entire data provider

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       1.      Using the context menu or menu option Insert, insert a chart into a report section, page header or page footer that is integrated into the report.

       2.      Adjust the cell size manually.

       3.      Highlight the chart in the cell and choose the Properties tab page in the Properties screen area.

       4.      Under Chart, assign a data provider to the chart.

○       If you have already integrated a data provider into your report and want to view this, select this data provider from the Data Provider dropdown box.

○       If you want to assign another data provider to the chart, choose Add Data Provider and select a suitable data provider for the chart.

       5.      If you want to edit the chart using Chart Designer, press the Chart button.

       6.      Save the report.

       7.      Run the report in the Web.

       8.      The chart depicts the entire data provider that has been assigned to it.

Inserting context-sensitive charts

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       1.      Insert a report section with the relevant data provider into your report.

       2.      Using the context menu or menu option Insert, insert a chart into the cell for a group level of a characteristic value.

By choosing Chart → Data Provider in the Properties screen area, you can now see that the inserted chart has been assigned automatically to the data provider that the report section is based on. The Context-Sensitive option is activated automatically. If you deactivate this option, the data from the entire data provider will be used for the chart.

       3.      Adjust the cell size manually.

       4.      If you want to edit the chart using Chart Designer, press the Chart button.

       5.      Save the report.

       6.      Run the report in the Web.

The chart depicts the data context that is has been positioned in.

Defining Chart Properties

Once you have inserted a chart in your report, you can then define default values for it in the screen area Properties. More information: Defining Chart Properties