Introducing other chart types

Now, we should be more familiar with the process of creating a dashboard. In this section, we will go through the chart types that we have in SAP BO Dashboards, and we will focus on the column and bar charts as we will need them to create our eFashion dashboard project. We will cover the following dashboard components:

  • Line, column, bar, and column line charts
  • Bubble and scatter charts
  • OHLC and Candlesticks charts
  • Bullet charts
  • Radar chart
  • Tree map (heat map)

The column line chart is renamed in SAP BO Dashboard 4.1, and it was combined chart in the earlier releases.

Line, column, bar, and column line charts

Line chart can be used to show the relation between one dimension and one measure. This type of charts is perfect in ...

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