Overview
Charts are the graphic equivalent of tables and crosstab tables. Yellowfin has a very powerful and easy-to-use charting feature which enables you to produce sophisticated and visually appealing charts to display a simple summary of your data or to represent complex relationships within it.
With Yellowfin, once you have selected the data to be used in the report, you can visualize this data in many ways simply by altering the attributes that you use in the chart.
Chart Parts
The following example show you the different areas on a standard chart before any major formatting settings have been applied.
Chart Builder Parts
The following image breaks down the chart builder into various menu groupings.
Adding a Chart to a Report
The chart creation process requires that the data for the report already be defined. When creating your report, select the data you wish to use and choose either the:
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Chart Only; OR |
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Chart & Table; options from the report menu |
Note: You will only have the chart configuration option if you have selected one of these two options.
When you first run your report you will not see a chart but instead you will now see a configure chart image. Click on this image to open up chart configuration.
Chart Configuration
The chart configuration page provides you all the tools to better visualise your data. From here you can select the data you wish to use in your chart, define the series formatting - such as colours etc, and format your chart for professional presentations.
- Chart Configuration Menu - all the format options relevant to the chart type you have selected. To select a chart use the 'Chart' selection drop down
- Chart Series Selection - choose the data you wish to apply to the chart
- Series Edit - edit the series options for the chart type selected
- Either your chart will be displayed or the chart configuration image as no chart has been selected and appropriate data applied
- The Chart Resize option allows you to drag the chart corner to resize the chart to fit your report
- Close Button - click this to return to the main report page