Series Types

Chartsmith provides the following major series types: Bar, Line, Base-Error, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo-Open-Close, Area, Pie, XY, Histogram, Scatter , Intensity Scatter, and Bubble. In addition, Bar Series may be Horizontal or Vertical, and/or 2D or 3D and/or Stacked/Unstacked; Line series may be 2D or 3D (3D Line series are often called Ribbon series); Area series may be 2D or 3D and/or Stacked/Unstacked; Histogram series may be 2D or 3D; and Pie series may be 2D or 3D.

When a chart is added to a file, the chart type is specified to be one of these major series types. This establishes the default series type for the chart. This also establishes what other series types can co-exist on this chart.

For example, a Bar chart will have a bar series in it by default, but a Line series can be added to it. A Hi-Lo-Open-Close chart can have a Hi-Lo series on the same chart. A XY chart can have a Scatter series. And there are many, many other combinations Š Chartsmith does not limit how you may combine series.  If two series types can be drawn on the same basic layout of the chart, then you will be able to combine them in a chart.

All series that can co-exist on a chart are displayed in the Series Palette of the Data View for a given chart. Any of the series found there can be added to the chart being addressed. (See the Data View Window Help page for information on adding series to a chart).

There are four groupings of series that can co-exist with one another.

The simplest of these groupings is the one that contains the Pie series. No other series type can be combined with a Pie series (but a single chart can contain any number of Pie series, ie any number of pies). This is due to the fact that all other series types require a grid, and Pie Series donÕt.

The next grouping includes all those series that are displayed on a grid with one axis that is non-numeric. This grouping includes: Bar, Line, Base-Error, Area, Hi-Lo, and Hi-Lo-Open-Close series.

The next group includes those series that have no non-numeric axes. This group includes XY, Scatter, Histogram and Bubble series.

Last is the Intensity Scatter series. Intensity Scatter series cannot be combined with any other series types.  The reason for this is that the legend of the Intensity Scatter chart is unique among all the chart types.