Creating a Chart

1. In the Report toolbox, double-click on the report page in which you wish to create the chart, to open the Page Editor for that page.
2. Either go to the Visual Components toolbox, drag a Chart element up to the Page Editor, and drop the element into the desired position in the page.

Or, right-click in the appropriate cell in the page’s table, and select Insert Component > Chart from the menu.

3. Click Save to save the changes.

Note that the page will normally have an HTML table on it. If you drop the Chart element into a cell in the table then you will have considerable control over where on the report page the chart is positioned.

4. To open the Chart Designer for the chart, either double-click on it, right-click on it and select Design, double-click on the Chart element in the Report toolbox, or right-click on it and select Edit.

Note: If you open the Chart Designer via the Report toolbox, the Designer’s toolbar will include a Save button so you can save your work directly. If you open the Designer via the Chart element in the Page Designer, then the toolbar will include an OK button instead. Click OK to apply any changes you have made to the chart and return to the Page Designer. You must then click the Save button in the Page Designer to save the changes.

How you set up the chart and the properties and settings that will be available to you will depend on which chart-design functionality you use; Dundas (go to Setting Up the Chart Using Dundas for more information) or Highcharts (go to Setting Up the Chart Using Highcharts for more information). After the release of Version 18 previously existing charts, which will have been created using the Dundas functionality, will continue to use Dundas by default. New charts will use the Highcharts functionality by default. You can change from one system to the other in the chart's properties page.

Selecting Dundas or Highcharts

To select Dundas or Highcharts:

1. When the chart is not selected in the report (is not displayed in the chart editor page), right click on the chart component in the report and select Properties.
2. In the General tab, set Rendering Style .to v1.0 to use Dundas or v2.0 to use Highcharts.



Figure 1 - Selecting use of Highcharts

3. Click Save or Save and Close.

Note: Version 2 will be the default for all new reports.