Bar and Horizontal Bar Chart

Introduction

The Bar Chart displays data of one or more series as bars:

By changing the chart typ to Horizontal Bar Chart the chart changes to the specified type. No other changes, besides optionally changing the Number Formatter Y-Axis settings to the Number Formatter X-Axis settings and vice versa:

Expected Data and Graph Designer

The Bar Chart expects data in a two (or more) column format such as:

Date

Revenue

Cost

23 January

38

24

24 January

39

24

25 January

40

24

26 January

40

24

In the Graph Designer you can then select the column you want to use for your x-axis (for the Horizontal Bar Chart the selected x-axis will be the y-axis):

Hence, the x-axis column does not need to be the first column. However, for consistency purposes it is recommended to always use your first column for the x-axis.

For each column, besides the one used by the x-axis one bar will be displayed.