6. Working with charts

With Inforiver Premium 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 Premium Table, refer to basic inline charts.

A detailed explanation of every chart type along with their corresponding customization options has been elaborated in the upcoming sections.

Apart from the customization options that are available for specific chart types and variations, there are certain customization options that are common for 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 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. Clicking on the 'Color palette' icon to the right of a measure name will open up a 'Color picker' modal in which you can select the color of the data label of the chosen measure.

2.3. Remove chart

Clicking on this option will remove the inserted chart from the report.

Navigate to the next section to learn more about sparkline charts.