Creating a New Chart

To add a chart to a Viewsheet, drag and drop the Chart element from the component tree into the grid. Use the mouse to move and resize the chart as desired.

To bind the Chart to data, follow the steps below:

1. Click on the center of the chart, or click the 'Edit' button in the top-right corner. This opens the Chart Editor on the left side of the Visual Composer.

 

Tip: You can drag fields from the Data Source panel directly onto the Viewsheet grid to create a Selec­tion component that filters the chart data.

2. From the Data Source panel in the Chart Editor, drag a dimension onto the 'X' field in the Data panel.

 

Note: When binding hierarchical cube dimensions, chart labels will include all hierarchical components. To avoid this, ask an administrator to set the property olap.table.originalContent=false in sree.properties.

This dimension provides the chart's X-axis data, and the dimension name is automatically used as the axis label.

To rank a dimension based on a measure that is not displayed in the chart, see Adding a Non-Displaying Mea­sure to a Chart.

3. Click the 'Edit Dimension' button, and select the desired ordering and ranking for the X-axis data.

 

Tip: You can drag a measure field from the Data Source panel directly onto the Viewsheet grid to cre­ate a Range Slider component that filters the chart data.

4. From the Data Source panel, drag a measure onto the 'Y' field in the Data panel.

 

This measure provides the Chart's Y-axis data, and the measure name is automatically used as the axis label.

5. Click the 'Edit Measure' button, and select the desired aggregation method for the Y-axis data.

 

6. For a line-type chart or map-type chart (see Setting the Chart Style), optionally drag a field to the 'P' region. The values in this path field are used to assign the sort order for the plotted data. Connecting lines are drawn between points which are adjacent in the path sort order, rather than between points which are adjacent on the axis.

See the following sections for information about changing other aspects of the chart, including visual properties, labeling, and sub-series.

See Also

Creating a Map Chart, for information on how to create a map chart.

Editing a Dimension, for more information on ranking and ordering.

Editing Chart Formats, for information on changing chart labels.

Adding a Sub-Series, for information on using the Visual panel.

Creating Selection List from Chart Data Source, for information on adding a Selection List.

Creating a Selection Tree from Chart Data Source, for information on adding a Selection Tree.

Positioning a Component, for information on moving and resizing a chart.

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