6. Working with charts
With Inforiver Table, you can include a wide variety of charts and visualizations in your reports with a single click. For a quick look at all the charts and visualizations available in the Inforiver Table, refer to basic inline charts.
A detailed explanation of each chart type, along with its corresponding customization options, is provided in the upcoming sections. Apart from the customization options available for specific chart types and variations, others apply to all chart types.
To add a row-level chart, select a measure(s) and select the chart type from the Chart section of the Home ribbon.
A row-level chart gets created as shown below:
When you select the chart column, a Customize tab appears, allowing you to customize the created charts. This is explained in this section.
1. Types of charts—Overview
Sparklines - Incorporate sparklines, spark columns, and their variants, such as the win-loss trend, to capture performance over time.
Bullet charts & clustered bars - Utilize different types of bullet charts, including the normalized bullet visualization (proposed by International Business Communication Standards) and clustered bars for tracking performance.
Stacked charts - Highlight distribution across categories using stacked charts.
Waterfall charts - Visualize the breakdown of the total change in a value, such as a financial metric like net income or cash flow, using waterfall charts.
Bar & pin charts - Deliver bar and lollipop/pin charts for highlighting the magnitude and significance, and also to compare multiple measures and visualize absolute and relative variances.
Changes/deviation charts - Track changes over time or with respect to a benchmark by using dot plots, arrow plots, dumbbell plots, & range plots.
2. Basic customizations
Here we have listed down the common chart customization options and their functionalities. Other customization options are covered in the following sections under specific chart types.
2.1. Label
This option lets you display data labels for all measures, specific measures, or none.
2.2. Color
This option lets you change the color of the data label of individual measures.
Select the label for which the display color needs to be changed. Click the Color palette icon to the right of a measure name to open the color picker modal. Select the color to apply.
2.3. Remove chart
Removes the inserted chart from the report.
Navigate to the next section to learn more about sparkline charts.
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