Time for action – creating a pie chart

We will add a pie chart to our report to display information about the movies rented. Then we will configure the type of chart we want to visualize, its data source, and other characteristics.

1. We will create a chart to display an analysis of the percentage of movies rented by rating. Add a chart to the Report Header section, dragging-and-dropping the () Chart () object.

2. Double-click on Chart to start configuring it.

3. In the upper part, choose the pie chart type:

   

4. In the right-hand part, configure the data source as follows:

   • value-column = count_rental (the value under analysis)

   • series-by-field = [rating] (the item to be represented as a portion of the pie)

5. In the left-hand part, configure the following:

   • chart-title = Percentage of films rented by Rating

   • label-font = FreeSans-BOLD-14

   • label-format = {0}: {2}

   • 3-D = True

   • show-legend = False

6. Next, click on OK to continue. If we preview it, we will see this:

   

What just happened?

We added a Chart object to the...