General Reporting Concepts

4 | Charting Reports

Learn how to outlines the available Charts and Charting Options in BackOffice. There are many Chart Types available  including Column, Stack, Bar, Line, Area, Pie and Scatter graphs. Charts can be printed with or without the Report Data.

This article outlines the available Charts and Charting Options in BackOffice.

There are many Chart Types available including Column, Stack, Bar, Line, Area, Pie and Scatter graphs.

Charts can be printed with or without the Report Data.

Prerequisites 

  • To be able to Create, Edit and/or View reports, the applicable Operator Privileges will need to be enabled:
    • Operator Maintenance 'Reporting' Tab
      • 'Sales Reports' Flags
      • 'Other Reports' Flags
      • 'Global Reports' Flags
    • Operator Maintenance 'General' Tab
      • System Setup: "Access, Venue, Stores & Tills" Flag
      • System Setup: "Maintain, Venue, Stores & Tills" Flag

Charts & Charting

  • The creation of Charts is possible in many Reports in BackOffice
  • When charting data, BackOffice will look at the View currently selected, and Chart the columns in the view that have the Chart flag turned on

  • Below is an example of how to chart a Report:
    1. Open the Report to Chart and click the Chart It button from the Report Toolbar section
    2. Under the Chart Summary, select Chart Type from the drop-down menu
    3. Tick On/Off the legend and 'Swap Rows and Columns' flag as desired


  • The Legend check-box will add a legend to the chart, while the Swap Rows and Columns will plot the data in the columns against the data in the rows as the scale