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Creating quick charts in Table view

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Creating quick charts in Table view

Thus far, we've discussed creating reports in our FileMaker databases that you can set up and allow users to run against your stored data or even print, and save to a PDF if you like. Charts, of course, have been adding an additional layer of visibility for the reports, and in FileMaker 12, now you can allow users to create their own chart reports on the fly without you having to build a layout for them. This concept is referred to as Quick Charts, and with a little bit of guidance, users can create and print a Quick Chart in Browse mode and even create and save their own layout in the FileMaker database. So you're first going to want to have a layout in your database that contains as many fields as you want the user to be able to work with and then present that layout in Table View. So what I've got here is the customer list presented in Table View, and I could have added a ton more of these columns if I want my users to be able to pick and choose and be creative with their charting.…

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