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Pie Charts

Summary

After you group records in a grid, you can right-click and select Generate Chart to create a pie chart (default option) of your data.For information on grouping columns.

Example

This example explains how to create a pie chart of employees by departments.

  1. In the Employees grid, use Customise Columns to add the Department Description column.
  2. Drag-and-drop the Department Description column header into the grouping area. See Grid Reporting - Sorting or Grouping.
  3. Right-click the grouped grid and select Generate Chart.

    The following pie chart appears:

Save as New Message

Click this button to display the standard Report Destination form with Destination options, E-mail options, File options, Transfer options and Document options tabs.

You can export the image file in the following formats: GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, HTML, Bitmap and Metafile. We recommend saving the chart as a PDF to render the chart correctly and clearly.

You can also export chart data in tabular format to TXT, XLS, and CSV files.

Edit Chart Style

Click this button to display the PayGlobal Chart Editor. You can change the graph type and select a pre-defined colour palette by clicking the Change button on the Chart tab | Series sub-tab from the TeeChart Gallery form.

TeeChart Gallery

The TeeChart Gallery form contains 12 types of charts, but you can only select charts that are suitable for the type of data you are reporting on.

  1. Click on a chart type.

    A small drop-down arrow appears on the bottom-left corner of the selection.

  2. Click the drop-down arrow to see additional chart options for that graph type appear.
  3. Double-click an option to apply it.

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