Generating a Report Chart

There are a large number of chart reports and chart types that can be generated within the Reporting facility. All reports that support charting will have icon at the top of the report. Any row in a report that supports charting on that individual row will have a beside it.

Many charts can be generated simultaneously from the same report. After generating a chart, return to the Report page and choose another chart or another set of objects to generate a chart upon. Another Chart page will be generated to the right of the already existing tabs and you will be positioned to the new chart tab.

To view a chart of all of the rows in the table:

1. Click on the button that appears at the top of the report. All reports that support charting will have this multi-colored pie chart icon at the top of the report.
2. Select the type of chart you would like to generate. A new page will be added to the page dialog to contain the chart.

Any row in a report that supports charting on that individual row will have a on the left of that row.

To generate a chart for just the element in that row: Click on the button that appears to the left of that report row.

To generate a chart for multiple rows in the current report: Select those rows by clicking on them. Multiple rows can be selected by holding down the control key (Ctrl key) on the keyboard while clicking on the desired rows.

To select a range of rows in a report:

1. Click on the first row desired and then hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys while clicking on the end row of the range.
2. After you have selected the rows you want to chart, click and select the type of chart you would like to generate. A new page is added to the window that contains the chart.

To customize the appearance of a chart:

1. Right-click on the chart and select Customize this window from the pop-up menu
2. Customize the report using the Chart Customization window. Use this window to customize the chart generated from a system report or from a report created in the Reporting facility. You can use the settings on this window to:
   • customize the display of the current chart
   • customize the display of the current chart and save those changes.

   If you save the customization settings for a report chart, that chart will use those settings whenever it is generated.

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