Line Charts
Add a line chart by clicking on "Line" in the Additional Display Formats menu.
Click the pencil icon to open the chart's configuration options.
Select the column you want to track from the X Value dropdown, which defines the horizontal axis of the chart.
Select the Case Count column from the Y Value dropdown, which defines the vertical axis of the chart.
In the example, the chart tracks the number of cases opened over the course of several years.
Enabling the Shade area under line? setting changes the appearance of the chart as shown here:
You can zoom in on a section of the line chart by clicking in the chart and selecting an area . . .
. . . which produces a more detailed view of the zoomed area.
Select Smooth Line? to add curves to the line rather than sharp angles.
By selecting a column from the Y Line Grouping dropdown, you can create a chart with different lines for each value in the category.
This setting produces a chart that looks like this:
For a more focused comparison of the values in the groups, you can click on the names of groups in the legend to remove them from the chart, as illustrated in this example:
Use stock chart view? gives you the ability to create slices of the chart dynamically and move them horizontally.
To set the zoom area, click and drag the sliders on the left and right of the timeline or manually enter the start and stop dates.
To move the zoom area, click and drag the scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline.
Area Maps
NB: Area Maps are currently not working (Ref: 90988)
Area maps provide a geographic representation of data points in the report. Your site must have the Geographic Information System (GIS) module enabled in order to use area maps.
Your report must include the latitude and longitude columns from the Person subtable. The screenshot shows the path to these fields in the Case Data table:
You will also need to add the Zip Code and State fields from the same subtable, as shown here:
With these fields in place, add a filter for Zip Code to ensure that any records where the zip code is not entered are excluded from the results, as this could prevent the map from loading.
To prevent records without geocoding information from derailing your map from loading, you can also add a filter that excludes all records where the value in the Latitude field is zero.
Your map will also be cleaner if you add a filter on the State field to ensure that all results are in your state.
Add an area map by clicking on "Area Map" in the Additional Display Formats menu.
Click Area Map Settings to open the map's configuration options.
In the Display Type dropdown, you can select from a number of geographic display options.
NOTE: We recommend using zip code, as the other options are still under development and may not behave as expected.
For the Latitude and Longitude dropdowns, select the Latitude and Longitude columns.
Select the Case Count column from the Count dropdown.
Select Zip Code from the Category dropdown.
NOTE: In the future, you will be able to select other options from this dropdown. Since this feature is still under development, selecting a different category may produce unexpected results.
The resulting chart will map the zip codes of each of the cases listed in the report.
Use the plus and minus buttons in the upper left corner to zoom in or out of the map.
Click on a zip code to view the number of cases associated with that zip code.
To increase the contrast between lower and higher numbers in each zip code, select Normalize Data.
To change the gradient shading so that darker shades indicate lower numbers and lighter shades indicate higher numbers, select Invert Gradient.