After the discovery of all the possible data source types, in this chapter you will learn how to incorporate graphics and charts in your Pentaho reports. You will start understanding how to include graphics and charts from the Pentaho Report Designer and then you will move on to the description of all the settings and configurations. Graphics and charts will be described one by one, as we did for the data sources, with the goal to make you a real expert for the best final result; the most useful and appealing report for your customers and manager.

In particular, the charts discussed are bar charts, line charts, area charts, bar line charts, pie charts, multipie charts, ring charts, bubble charts, scatter plot charts, XY bar charts, XY line charts (regular and extended), XY area charts, XY area line charts, waterfall charts, radar charts, thermometer charts, bar-sparklines, line-sparklines, and pie-sparklines.

This chapter is written as a...