Categories of Available Graph Types

The following table lists the major types of graphs that the Graph bean supports.

Type

Description

Varieties

Value Axes

Bar

Data appears as bars.

Bars can show absolute values (bars clustered in groups), cumulative values (bars stacked), or percentages.

Single or dual-Y

Pie

Data appears as sliced pies or rings.

Pie graphs can show a single group of data (single pie or ring) or multiple groups of data (multiple pie or ring).

NA

Line

Data appears as lines, points, or both.

Lines can show absolute or cumulative data values or percentages.

Single or dual-Y

Area

Data appears as filled areas.

Areas can show absolute or cumulative data values or percentages.

Single or dual-Y

Combination

Combines bars and lines, bars and areas, lines and areas, or all three

No variety; to change the kind of marker that represents a series, set the MarkerType property of the Series objects.

Single or dual-Y

Scatter and Bubble

Data plotted as X- and Y-locations of points.

You can relate two measures (scatter) or three (bubble).

X-axis is a value axis; single or dual-Y

Stock

Special marker shows stock prices.

Markers can show open and close only, high, low, and close only, or open, high, low, and close values. Trading volume can appear.

Single Y-axis

Circular

Circular line or scatter graph.

Line or scatter.

Single Y-axis, from center of circle out

Pareto

Data appears as bars, and a line shows the calculation of the cumulative percentage of bars.

No variety.

Always dual-Y; Y1-axis shows values for each bar, and Y2-axis shows percentage

3-D

Three-dimensional view of data.

Data can appear as bars, ribbons, floating cubes, areas, or as a surface.

NA