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Creating charts from data
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You can also chart summary data by subcategory (for example, total sales by company within one
country). To do so, you could change the chart settings specified in this example as follows:
• sort records by the main category, then the subcategory (for example, sort by Country, then
by Company)
• set the x-axis or category labels to the subcategory (Company)
• place the chart in a subsummary layout part sorted by the main category (Country)
This chart compares total sales by company within one country.
Related topics
About chart types
Chart planning guidelines
About layout part types
Column, bar, line, and area charts
To get started creating a chart, see Creating quick charts or Creating and editing charts in Layout
mode.
1. Find the records you want to chart. See Making a find request.
If you are charting delimited data stored in a single record or data from related records, you
must specify data source settings. See
Specifying the data source for a chart.
2. In the Chart Setup dialog box, choose a chart type. See About chart types.
3. Enter the following settings:
For X-Axis
(Horizontal)
Do this
Title
Type a title or click , choose Specify Field Name or Specify Calculation,
complete the dialog box, and click OK.
100000
0
Japan
200000
0
USAUK
100000
200000
Total Sales by Country
0
ABC Company
50000
0
XYZ, Inc.DEF Ltd.
50000
Total Sales in the USA