Charts can help clarify large or complex data sets. The Report Builder lets you place a chart in any report band and supports many types of charts.
To add a chart to a report, you use the Chart Wizard, which steps you through the chart building process. The Chart Wizard, which is fully integrated with the Query Wizard to facilitate database-driven charts, helps you define the chart type, the data used for the report and other formatting options.
Tip: As you use the Chart Wizard to choose and define the various aspects of a given chart, the Report Builder uses RDS to generate chart images in real time. However, the data shown in these chart images is not real.
The Chart Wizard includes the following panels:
Tip: The data you specify through the Chart Wizard corresponds to the attributes specified in the cfchart, cfchartseries, and cfchartdata tags. For more information on these tags, refer to CFML Reference and ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide.
For complete information on ColdFusion MX charting capabilities, see Creating Charts and Graphs. For more information on charting using the Report Builder, see Report Builder online Help.