This chapter is dedicated to charts. We will talk about chart functions, good and bad practices of using charts, and how to create and configure our own charts among other topics.

By explaining each type of chart, we will be able to understand which chart to use for a particular need, and how to configure the chart so that its look and feel is what we want.

We will also see how charts allow us to show data from different perspectives and add value to our reports.

In this chapter we will perform the following operations:

Finally, we propose that you modify a previous report and add a chart to it to give it greater capacity for analysis.

Starting practice

In this chapter, we will create a new report and configure the data set, labels, parameters, and so on, but most importantly we will create and configure two charts. When we finish the exercises, we will have a report that looks like this:

The upper half of the preceding chart is a pie chart and the bottom is a bar chart. Both charts use the main data set of our report as its data source.

We will learn about charts in PRD and then manipulate them.