Chapter 3. Charting Guide

3.1. Introduction

A sophisticated and powerful charting engine is incorporated with EspressReport that allows you to include many different types of visual data representation in reports. You can also deploy charts independently from reports, adding stand-alone graphs to web pages and applications. Charts can be created using the embedded Chart Designer interface or by using the charting APIs. This guide covers both designing charts via the Chart Designer and the API, as well as deploying charts with reports and independently.