Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Introduction to Charts and Maps

Chapter 2, ”Selecting and Grouping Data,” and Chapter 3, “Filtering, Sorting, and Summarizing Data,” introduced the importance of grouping and summarizing in report generation. When doing so for business users, it is often effective to present these groups and summarizations using various visualization techniques. The charting and mapping features in Crystal Reports provide a very effective way to communicate relevant information using powerful visualization techniques.

Charts and maps with Crystal Reports provide an extensive array of data visualization options to report designers. In addition to familiar chart types including bar charts, pie charts, scatter charts, line charts, and bubble charts, new chart types ...