{"id":3264,"date":"2016-04-20T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:37:15","slug":"chart-making-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/2016\/04\/20\/chart-making-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make A Chart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chart is popular thing in our daily life.But how about the procedure of making a chart in <a title=\"FineReport BI and reporting tool data visualization\" href=\"\/en\/help\/data-visualization\" target=\"_blank\">data visualization<\/a>. Today we&#8217;re going to learn about it.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Chart Making Procedure<\/h3>\n<p>Chart making procedure of FineReport <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:blue;\">reporting tool<\/span><\/a> is shown as below:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart01.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We will take the below bar chart as an example to briefly introduce chart making procedure.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart02.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>2. Example<\/h3>\n<p><strong>2.1 Prepare Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definng data source before making a chart.<\/p>\n<p>Add new workbook, add dataset, define sql statement as <strong><span style=\"color: green;\">SELECT * FROM [Sales]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.2 Insert Chart and Select Chart Type<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two way of inserting a chart: cell element and float element. We take float chart here as an example.<\/p>\n<p>Click toolbar <strong><span style=\"color: green;\">Insert&gt;Float Element&gt;Insert Chart<\/span><\/strong> and <strong>Chart Type<\/strong> will pop up. Then select <strong>Column Chart<\/strong> as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart03.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.3 Define Chart Data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After selecting chart type, click Ok. Return to main interface and select the float chart. Set chart properties on <strong>Chart Properties<\/strong> that lies on the upper right side of main interface and select <strong>Chart Properties-Data<\/strong>. Set column chart&#8217;s data as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart04.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Category: It&#8217;s chart&#8217;s horizontal axis, namely, X axis, meaning how charts are displayed according to category.<\/p>\n<p>SeriesName: It&#8217;s chart&#8217;s vertical axis, namely, Y axis, meaning in what sequence the data in every category is displayed.<\/p>\n<p>SeriesValue: It&#8217;s every series&#8217; value.<\/p>\n<p>Subtotal: It&#8217;s compute mode of series value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.4 Chart Style Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Select the chart and <strong>Chart Properties<\/strong> will appear on the upper right side of designer. Select <font color=green><strong>Chart Properties-Style&gt;Data Label<\/strong><\/font> and add title as Regional Product Sales as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart05.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Series Label Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Select <font color=green><strong>Chart Properties-Style&gt;Data Label and tickLabel<\/strong><\/font>. Then series value will be shown.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finereport.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/fanruan\/images\/make-chart06.png\" alt=\"make chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attention: You can set other Style for the chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.5 Save Template<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Save and select page view and you can see the effect as above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chart is popular thing in our daily life.But how about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frg.fineres.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}