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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By : Yoav Yohav
Book Image

SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

By: Yoav Yohav

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with the Line chart


There are many chart types we can use when we are creating Web Intelligence reports, but we would like to get a better understanding of which chart type we can use and when.

Getting ready

We will be analyzing the sales revenue by year in a graphical way that will display the sales trend.

How to do it...

We will first open the Available Objects panel on the left-hand side and perform the following steps:

  1. From the Available Objects pane, we will drag-and-drop the Sales revenue and Year objects into the report area, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. After the table is located in the report area, we will right-click on the table and navigate to Turn Into | Line Chart from the right-click menu.

  3. We will get a line chart that will easily show us the sales revenue trend over the years, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Tip

    You can display both charts and tables together by simply copying the table and turning the copy into a chart.

    When we create a chart, it's advised to...