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## Overview

The first step in creating your chart is selecting the appropriate chart type to most effectively visualise your data. There are two methods for chart creation:

1. Auto Chart
2. Chart Selection

 

## Auto Chart

The Auto Chart functionality provides some common component areas to be populated, and depending on what fields you drag into them, a chart will be generated.

![image](media://6dbe42da-6b33-438c-bdce-9c7eb87c4c30)

**<span style="color: #cc0000">Note:</span>** auto charts generate common chart types such as; Bar, Column, Scatter, and Line. If you are looking for a specific chart or specialty chart it would be better to select the type from the Chart Selection panel on the right.

 

## Chart Selection

The following list of chart choices will assist you to make you selection. After you have made a selection it is easy to swap between chart types to see how your data might look with different visualisations.

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## Chart Selector Guide

![image](media://ee73215c-1b99-454d-98e9-9861117d345d)

 

## Cross Tab Charts


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