Designer charts

Designer Charts are also known as Designer-Charts or D-Charts. Designer Charts can be created using the data from the Designer report that you are currently working on or data from a different Designer report.

The user interface for D-Charts is similar to Visualizer charts. It contains a Subject Area, Chart Builder, and Canvas.

This table shows chart types that are available in D-Charts:

Chart types Description
Column Shows series values as sets of vertical columns that are grouped by categories. At least one category and one series measure are required. Column charts are useful for comparing two or more values.
Bar Shows series values as sets of horizontal bars that are grouped by categories. At least one category attribute and one series measure are required. Bar charts are useful for comparing two or more values.
Line Shows series values as a set of markers that are connected by a line with category labels. At least one category and one series measure are required. A line chart is most useful to represent measures that change over a period of time.
Area Shows series values as sets of overlapping filled regions. It is similar to a line chart, with the area between the axis and line filled in with color. An area chart is commonly used to compare two or more measures. At least one category and one measure are required.
Scatter Shows series as a set of points that are specified by x and y coordinates. A scatter plot is useful for showing nonlinear relationships between variables. At least one category and two series representing the x and y coordinates are required.
Bubble Shows series values as a set of bubbles. It is similar to a scatter plot except that the size of the bubbles are supplied by a third series. At least one category and three series representing x and y coordinates and size are required.
Pie Shows series values as percentage slices of a pie. At least one category and one series are required. Pie charts are most effective to compare the size of one slice to the whole pie rather than comparing the slices.
Donut Shows value data in a donut shape. Categories are represented by individual slices. At least one category and one series is required.
Funnel Shows series values as horizontal bars formed as a funnel that is grouped by categories. At least one category and one series are required.
Pyramid Shows series values as horizontal bars formed as a pyramid that is grouped by categories. At least one category and one series is required.
Heat Map Shows series values in a matrix of two categories. It is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a measure in a two-dimensional map are represented as gradations of a color. At least two categories and one series are required.
Tree Map Shows data as a set of rectangles. Size and fill color of a rectangle are proportional to the selected series. One attribute and one series are required.
Waterfall Shows the cumulative effect of sequential additions and subtractions. Two categories, one for the items to be measured and one that is grouped and sorted, and one series for change values are required. Green bars indicate positive values, red bars indicate negative values, and blue bars show the subtotal of the values in the second category.
Note: As of v 7.6, there is a known issue for Waterfall charts. Waterfall charts do not show the cumulative value, but instead shows the individual category values as in a bar chart.

The columns that are available for charts depends on the report from which the chart is created. When creating a chart, you can add a chart or add a chart from another report:

Action Description
Add Chart Access to all columns on the Designer report. Additional columns can be added from the Default Subject Area when creating the chart. These columns must also be added to your Designer report in order to add the chart to the report.
Add Chart from Other Report Access to all columns on the selected Designer report. You cannot add any additional columns.