Charts provide a visual representation of an entity's data. Typically, charts show aggregated data. They are easy to create.
You can edit charts and create new charts from the Charts tab of the entity in your solution, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 9.26 – Charts
In the previous screenshot, you can see two custom charts. No charts are created when you create a custom entity. The Account and Contact entities have a series of charts provided.
There are a limited set of chart types that you can create:
- Column
- Bar
- Line
- Area
- Pie
- Funnel
- Tag
- Doughnut
The Tag and Doughnut charts are used with interactive dashboards.
The following screenshot shows an example of a bar chart:
Figure 9.27 – Bar chart
Charts share the query functionality used in Advanced Find and views, FetchXML. FetchXML supports grouping and aggregation.
You cannot restrict charts with security. If you need to prevent users from accessing a chart, you can either...
