Category Chart

The Category Chart layout object allows you to create a graph that has two keys for each set of values.

Draw As property: This kind of graph can be drawn as a Bar, Bar3D, Stacked Bar, Line, Line3D, Area, Stacked Area, Waterfall, or as a table.

In a waterfall graph, the value in the last category of the data set should be (redundantly) specified as the sum of the items in the preceding categories - otherwise, the final bar in the chart will be incorrectly plotted. At the present time, the waterfall graph can only have one category.

This Bar chart presents total revenue (the value) by the Customer Name and Product Category (the keys):


This figure is an example chart image of a 3-D Bar Chart.

Figure 1. 3-D Bar Chart example: Revenue by Customer and Categories

The Category Chart Item layout object specifies the key data items and the values data item in its properties: