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Reporting Services Tutorial: Part 4 - Customizing Your Charts Using Series and Formatting

Chapter: Developing Your Reporting Services Reports Using the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)

Skill Level: 100 (Beginner)
Duration: 12:45
Size: 13.0MB

Added/Updated: Jul 02, 2008

In this video we will take a look at what a series is when working with our numerous data elements and also begin to format our chart and series.

Highlights from this video:

Review of our query
- Relationships and datalevels
What is a series and what does it do to our chart?
- When to use a series
- What to put in a series
Best practices for working with a series
Hierarchies in category groups
- Assigning parent groups
- Modifying properties

and much more

Tags for this video: category chart chart control custom customize customizing format formatting introduction query series step by step

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This video is part of the following video series: "Creating a Report with the Chart Control in SSRS"

In this video series, Scott Whigham will introduce you to the chart control in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Scott will talk about the various types of charts you can create, as there are so many different customization options, and walk you through the various customization options.

Highlights from the series:

Exploring the Chart Control interface
Altering the chart layout, chart type, legend position
Customizing chart properties

Chart name
Chart title
Chart color palette, etc

Grouping and sorting properties

How Label and Fields work together

What is a series and what does it do to our chart?

When to use a series
What to put in a series

Best practices for working with a series
Hierarchies in category groups

Assigning parent groups
Modifying properties

Customizing the legend style properties

Formatting the labels and adding gridlines

Using the format code and point labels

and much more!

To view all videos in this series, click here

About the Instructor:

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

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