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Start a Visual Analysis Session

Visual Analysis is an in-context analysis tool to visualize the result of every step of your work. Simply by dragging and dropping data fields to the layout module, you are able to experience the detailed building up of crosstabs and charts step by step visually.

To start a new Visual Analysis session and perform data analysis, you should have logged onto the JReport Server console. Then:

  1. In the JReport Server Start Page, click Public Folder in the Open category.
  2. Click New > Analysis on the task bar of the Resources page in the server console.
  3. A Visual Analysis window with the Select Data Source dialog is displayed. Select WorldWideSalesBV in Data Source 1, and then click OK.

    Select Data Source

  4. The Visual Analysis window will be loaded. The display type shows Text Text button by default.

    Visual Analysis Window

  5. To view total sales, drag Total Sales from the Data Source panel and drop it to the Label button Label button in the legend section.

    Label Legend

    There is only one value in the data presentation area which is the total sales in the whole business view.

  6. Now let's view total sales in different years. Drag Sales Year to the column control box Column Control box.

    Add Column

  7. To add product category as the row header, drag Category to the row control box Row Control box.

    Add Row

  8. Click on the toolbar to save the result as a visual analysis template.

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