DataWindow Designer provides many types of graphs for you to choose from. You choose the type on the Define Graph Style page in the DataWindow wizard or in the General page in the Properties view for the graph.
Area, bar, column, and line graphs are conceptually very similar. They differ only in how they physically represent the data values—whether they use areas, bars, columns, or lines to represent the values. All other properties are the same. Typically you use area and line graphs to display continuous data and use bar and column graphs to display noncontinuous data.
Pie graphs typically show one series of data points with each data point shown as a percentage of a whole. You can have pie graphs with more than one series if you want; the series are shown in concentric circles. Multi series pie graphs can be useful in comparing series of data.
Scatter graphs show xy data points. Typically you use scatter graphs to show the relationship between two sets of numeric values. Non-numeric values, such as string and DateTime datatypes, do not display correctly. Scatter graphs do not use categories. Instead, numeric values are plotted along both axes—as opposed to other graphs, which have values along one axis and categories along the other axis. You can have multiple series of data in a scatter graph. For example, you might want to plot mileage versus speed for several makes of cars in the same graph.
You can also create 3-dimensional (3D) graphs of area, bar, column, line, and pie graphs. In 3D graphs (except for 3D pie graphs), series are plotted along a third axis (the Series axis) instead of along the Category axis. You can specify the perspective to use to show the third dimension.
In bar and column graphs, you can choose to stack the bars and columns. In stacked graphs, each category is represented as one bar or column instead of as separate bars or columns for each series.
