Chart Creation & Options

For creating a chart, click on the New Report icon or link (highlighted in the screen shot to the left).

You would be prompted to select the table (which contains the data) on which you need to create the chart.

Also watch "Creating Charts Video"  

Or, you can click on New Chart View as in the screen shot to the left, by selecting the corresponding table (or Query Table) on which you would like to create the chart upon.

Drag and Drop based Chart Creation

Use the intuitive drag and drop based designer to construct the required chart

Drag and Drop the columns listed on the left pane and place them in the appropriate fields in the design area.

-> Select the X and Y axis columns. Note that you can have multiple columns in Y axis.
-> Choose the data that is to be plotted for coloring in the Color field
-> Choose the text that is to be displayed on the chart in the 'Text' field
-> Drop the necessary columns to be shown in the tool tip
-> In each of the columns dropped, select the function to apply using the drop list over the column

Click on the "Generate Graph" link

A Bar chart generated according to the criteria set as above.

View Underlying Data:

Data underlying the overall chart or a point in the chart can easily be viewed by clicking on specific point in the chart.

In the screenshot, sales data from region "East" in the year "2006" is displayed by clicking on the corresponding bar in the chart.

Multiple Y - Axis

You can create charts with multiple Y - axis. To the left is an example chart having Sales, Cost & Profit as the Y-axis.

You can also apply filters over charts by clicking on either of the Filter buttons, present at the top-left and the bottom-right of any chart (the other button is for changing the axis settings) or by selecting the "Filters" vertical tab.

To the left is a screen shot of the Sales-Cost-Profit data chart with the filter applied for years 2007& 2008 alone.

Chart Types

You can choose to view your chart in any of the wide range of chart types offered by Zoho Reports

Zoho Reports supports Line, Scatter, Bar, Stacked Bar, Scatter, Web and Table chart types. Both 2D and 3D charts are supported.

Also watch "Creating Charts Video"