Understanding Business Charts

Business charts are useful tools for presenting summary data. SQR provides two commands for creating charts: DECLARE-CHART and PRINT-CHART. It also provides a variety of chart types, including:

• Line

• Pie

• Bar

• Stacked bar

• 100 percent bar

• Overlapped bar

• Floating bar

• Histogram

• Area

• Stacked area

• 100 percent area

• XY scatter plot

• High-low close

You can configure many attributes of SQR charts by activating three-dimensional effects or setting titles and legends. SQR charts are also portable: you can move them from one hardware platform to another.

You can prepare a business chart by using data that is held in an array, just as you would for a cross-tabular report. If you have already written a cross-tabular report, you need to take one additional step to create a chart using the data that is already collected in the array.

See Creating a Chart and Printing Charts.