This object is used to evaluate and display data graphically in diagrams. This gives you an overview of your data and lets you recognize anomalies immediately.

For example, you can analyze sales trends, illustrate percentage shares and show data in multiple dimensions. You have a wide range of different types of diagrams at your disposal:

§ Circle/Donut chart

§ Bar/Ribbon chart (also displayed as cylinders, pyramids, cones, octahedrons)

§ Simple (e.g. sales per customer)

§ Multi-row (e.g. sales to various customers over the years, scaled by customer)

§ Clustered (e.g. sales to various customers over the years, grouped by year)

§ Stacked (e.g. percentage of sales to various customers stacked over the years)

§ 100% stacked (e.g. respective sales percentages for various customers over the years)

§ Line/Symbol: Simple, Multi-row, Stacked, 100% stacked

§ Area: Simple, Stacked, 100% Stacked

§ Bubbles/Dots: Distributed, Sorted (Displayed as circle, drop or picture file)

§ Funnel/Pipeline

§ Map/Shapefile

Various LL.ChartObject-fields are available for diagrams. You will find more information about this in the chapter Overview of Fields.