Designing an Advanced Report—Exercises

IMPORTANT
The exercise scenarios in this document uses data from the RACE version of the database released with App75 SP4 as example data.

Creating a Chart using Microsoft Excel 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create a chart for the report that was created in Design exercise.

Windows:
IFS Business Analytics/Go to Design

  1. Open the report DESIGNXX and click Go To Design
  2. Select cell C15 and select Insert menu from Microsoft Excel tool bar and click Column and select 2D -Column.
  3. Right click in the chart area and click Select Data. Select cell C13(=Sheet1$C$13) to chart data range.
  4. Click Ok.
  5. Right click and select Select Data. In the Horizontal Axis Labels click Edit.
  6. Enter C4(=Sheet1$C$4) in Axis Label Range
  7. Click Layout tab and Chart Title from Microsoft Excel tool bar and enter "Net Profit per Period" as the title above the chart.
  8. Select layout and click Legend from Microsoft Excel toolbar. Select None.
  9. Select Layout and click Data Labels from Microsoft Excel toolbar. Select Center. Refer  to the figure below:


     
  10. Click Execute. The executed report should look like the figure below: