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Adding chart widget to the Ad-hoc Reports in the AIV application

In the previous section we learned how to add table widget to the Ad-hoc Reports. This section will teach you how to add chart widget to your Ad-hoc Report.

In order to create a chart follow the following steps:-

You can insert a chart below another widget like table as follows:-

You can also create chart on a new page as follows:-

Drag and drop the chart to empty area as shown above:
Now from the drop down list of Datasets select the Sales.cds as follows:-

You will see all the columns of the Dataset under Dataset Columns.
Select Area chart in the Main Chart from the dropdown.
In the sub-chart type select Overlay.
Now drag and drop productName to Values in Y axis and country to optional Y series grouping.
In the similar fashion, add productLine to Category X.
Leave everything else as it is in the chart and run the chart as HTML in order to see the how chart is displayed.
In order to run the chart widget click on Run in the topmost right corner as follows:-

For this example, we select Run as HTML.
Click on HTML which will open the following dialog box:-

As the chart has no parameters, just click on Send.
The following chart will be generated in HTML.

You can change the template format from the BIRT Templates as follows:-

You can also specify the number of records you want to show on a page from the following widget near the template selector widget:-

If you want to save your chart you can click on the save button at the topmost right corner below admin which will open the following dialog box:-

You can give your own name in selected column, and select format as Report/Template and press submit button to perform save operation.
If you want to change the settings of a widget click on below Run which will open the following dialog box:-

Here you can change name, width, height and visibility of your chart.
Similarly press in order to delete the chart widget.

In the next section we will learn how to create image widgets.