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With the improvement of the status of the reporting system in the enterprise information system,the pressure of which has also increased. For enterprises with large data volume, high user volume and high concurrency, how to make the reporting system stable under high-pressure environment and ensure the security and availability of the system has become a problem that enterprises have to consider. However,clusters are a good way to solve these problems.
Pre-defined chart style refers to the styles predefined at Server side and available for all templates so as to display better data analysis. If a certain pre-defined color style is selected, it will be used as the default style of newly created charts.
If you want to check the data and chart at the same time, you can configure the Datasheet instead of dragging the data to the cell so as to have data analysis easily. In addition, as the data and the category axis correspond to each other one by one, it is convenient for the user to check data.
As shown below, one chart can be divided into four areas for better data analysis: overall chart area (indicated by black box), drawing area (indicated by green background), title area (indicated by blue background) and legend area (indicated by yellow background), and all these are important parts of reporting tool and business intelligence tool.
Select Chart. We can click Chart Property – Style > Coordinate Axis > Value Axis in the Chart Attribute Panel to configure styles of value axis as shown below:
Select Chart. Click Chart Property – Style > Coordinate Axis > Category Axis to configure styles of category axes as shown below:
Charts include two kinds of coordinate axis, both important reporting tool and business intelligence tool: Category Axis and Value Axis as shown below: Category Axis: a nonnumeric axis indicates category basis for displayed data. Value Axis: a numeric axis indicates numerical magnitude of series values. A non-combination chart only has one main value axis; and a combination…
1. Description Tag, part of reporting tool, refers to contents, formats and location displayed in the Chart Series when the report is viewed in Web side. 2. Tag Select chart. Click Chart Attribute Table – Style > Tag, and check in the checkbox before tag contents to be displayed and set format as shown below:
1. Description As each column of column chart and each line of line chart indicate a series of elements, which are important parts of data analysis and data visualization, we can click Chart Attribute Table – Style > Series in the Chart Toolbar to configure series styles as shown below: Different types of charts have…
1. Description We can click Chart Attribute Table – Style > Legend in the Chart Attribute Panel to configure legend styles as shown below: 2. Legend 2.1 Legend visible We can customize to display legend, a part of reporting tool and business intelligence tool , or not as shown above, and the legend is visible in…
1. Description click Chart Attribute Table – Style > Title in the Chart Toolbar and steps to title styles, one of aspects of reporting tool and business intelligence tool, as shown below: 2. Title Title content As shown above, we can configure titles to be visible or invisible. If a title is visible, we can…
1. Description This section will give a general description about style attributes of charts, which belong to reporting tool, to help you learn how to beautify a chart and make a delicate statistical chart professionally so as to prepare for better data analysis and data visualization. We will take the following column chart as example to…
1. Problem description As known from the Radar Chart Example, a radar chart is often used to analyze and calculate values of each index so as to prepare for data analysis and data visualization. As the statistic unit of each index is different, the value difference may be large. By default, the coordinate axis units…
1. Description A radar chart, as a good helper of data analysis, is mainly used for analyzing and evaluating the operation statuses of an enterprise. For example, by plotting the numbers or ratios obtained from various financial analyses of a Company on a circular chart, the user can clearly understand the changes and trends of…
1. Overview A bubble chart, a good helper of data analysis and data visualization, is a variation of a scatter chart. The difference is that: the scatter chart plots grouped sets of X and Y values (2D) while a bubble chart plots grouped sets of X, Y and Z values (3D), where, Z values are…
1. Description Just like a pie chart, a doughnut chart, as an importing reporting tool and business intelligence tool, shows the relationship of parts to a whole. With a doughnut chart, you can clearly understand the percent of each part contributing to the whole so as to do a better data analysis. However, different from…
1. Problem description The figure below shows a table from database in which series under each category are specifically sorted (series summary, i.e. total flow of each series in descending order) for better data analysis and data under some categories are default. Create a dataset data source column chart with the data in the above…
1. Description With IE8, the new chart has unsatisfied display effect, which may affect data analysis and data visualization. And some functions are not supported. 2. Cause Due to performance problem, IE8 and below browsers prohibit animation, gradient effects and chart zoom. Shadow effect is also changed accordingly; Due to implementation problem, svg export via…
1. Description A multi-dimensional coordinate axis chart, as an important reporting tool and business intelligence tool, displays several dimensions in a chart and is not only limited to 2 dimensions (with 2 dimensions, you can only compare data of one dimension). In this way, you can compare data of 2 or more dimensions in a…
1. Overview A funnel chart, as an important reporting tool and business intelligence tool, displays the proportion of a stage and provides analysis of conversion rate. This chart represents a single-sequence chart with a part of 100% without using any axes for clear data analysis and data visualization. 2. Example 2.1 Prepare data Create a new…
As a good reporting tool, the chart, based on presentation form, is divided into 2D chart and 3D chart, both belonging to business intelligence tool. As the name implies, 2D chart is represented in a 2D space, while 3D chart is displayed in a 3D space, i.e., a stereoscopic space. 2D charts have been described…
1. Function description Sometimes, the user wants to display different charts based on different conditions, as shown below. Select Year and Month condition, and the chart, as a great reporting tool, will display data meeting certain conditions so as to realize dynamic chart: 2. Realization ideasEdit Dynamically change chart data source based on parameter conditions….
1. Problem description In using a chart, it is able to display by data size. Take a column chart as an example, how to allow all columns to be sorted by data size from high to low or vice versa for better data analysis, as shown below? 2. Realization ideas The chart, a good reporting…
1. Function description Similar to a ruler, as a good reporting tool, a range chart can display the position and numeric values of some certain values based on the graduation position. It is a chart type to visually display value difference at horizontal sight. It’s a quite useful tool for data analysis. The range…
1. Problem description A trendline, a great tool for data analysis and data visualization, is used to display trend in data changes and is an attribute of Series. Being an important reporting tool, it can be used in line charts, scatter charts, combination charts, column charts and area charts.The chart below is a trend chart of…
1. Problem description To make data change trend clearer to see or the trend change of line chart more obvious, the curve line of a line chart can be used in report designer or data analysis. As a business intelligence tool, the chart below compares the effect of the line chart and the smooth curve: 2. Set…
1. Problem description When slices are intensive in a chart, Series values may be unclear or even overlapped if they are displayed in each slice in report designer. In this case, you can use leader lines to display Series values, as shown below: 2. Example 2.1 Open report Open report:%FR_HOME%\WebReport\WEB-INF\reportlets\doc\Advanced\Chart\3Darea.cpt。 2.2 Set leader lines By…
1. Problem description When several data points in the pie chart are smaller than 10% of the pie chart, it is difficult to distinguish the slices. To solve this problem, a secondary plot area is used to make a pie of pie chart or a bar of pie chart in FineReport Designer, as shown below. Pie…