Although table and pivot table views are very useful views in the analyses, they might not satisfy all the business requirements. Business users may be interested in some visual effects in the reports. To support this requirement, we're going to add graph views into the compound layout. This will enable end users to focus on the business data easily. There are also other types of graphical views and we're going to discuss them after this recipe.
We're going to demonstrate this feature with a two-column analysis. So add one attribute and one measure column in the Criteria tab.
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: Attribute columnDollars
: Measure column
To see the result set, just click on the Results tab. As usual, the Title and the Table views are added to Compound Layout. Click on the New View button and go to Graph | Bar | Default (Vertical) from the menu list.
You'll see that the Graph view is added into the Compound Layout section below the table view.
We have to open the view editor...