Now, we should be more familiar with the process of creating a dashboard. In this section, we will go through the chart types that we have in SAP BO Dashboards, and we will focus on the column and bar charts as we will need them to create our eFashion dashboard project. We will cover the following dashboard components:
Line, column, bar, and column line charts
Bubble and scatter charts
OHLC and Candlesticks charts
Bullet charts
Radar chart
Tree map (heat map)
The column line chart is renamed in SAP BO Dashboard 4.1, and it was combined chart in the earlier releases.
Line chart can be used to show the relation between one dimension and one measure. This type of charts is perfect in a trend analysis when you want to display time trends, such as the sales by months. The main idea of this chart is to display a continuous line that reflects how our measure (sales in our example) changes across dimension values (months in our example...