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Area Chart

The “area” chart type is useful for showing change in a value over time. For example, it can show how the number of orders in the Northwind database changes by the order date. To use “area” chart type, add the keyword “area” to any “pivot-” tag, and make sure that it is separated with hyphens (-).

Data Field Tag
OrderDate pivot1-row1-date-area

A chart of the count of orders over the order date.

The data for the chart can be seen below.

The values for the chart.

Note that the chart above uses “-date” keyword. This keyword will direct the server to try several pivots with varying date group sizes and select the best fitting chart. An alternative definition to define a chart that looks exactly like the one above would look like the following:

Data Field Tag
OrderDate pivot1-row1-year-area pivot1-row2-month

Discrete points can be clicked on to reveal the row, column, and value for that data point.

Clicking on an area chart data point will reveal the value.

This chart type is also effective for showing multiple values on the same chart.  The example chart below shows the frequency of orders made with each shipper over time. It uses order date for the rows, and the shipper company name (ShipVia) as the columns.

Data Field Tag
OrderDate pivot1-row1-year-area   pivot1-row2-quarter
ShipVia pivot1-col1

An area chart with multiple values.

The data for the graph above can be seen here:

The data for an area chart with multiple values.

By default, the values are shown independently. You can choose to stack the values cumulatively by using the “areastacked” tag instead.

Data Field Tag
OrderDate pivot1-row1-year-areastacked pivot1-row2-quarter
ShipVia pivot1-col1

A stacked area chart with multiple values.