Line Bar Combo Graphs

Line Bar Combo graphs allow you to have bars and lines in the same graph. They are very similar to Line Graphs and Most graph types have several subtypes. For example, the Bar graph has Vertical and Horizontal subtypes. These subtypes will be discussed in the same section as the main graph type. 3D graphs are considered variations, not subtypes.

A Line Bar Combo graph represents its data according to the number of data series in it. By default, those data series that constitute the first half of the total number of series are represented as lines. The remaining data series are represented as bars. If there is an odd number of data series there will be one more bar data series than line data series.

Example 13.8 shows how Line Bar Combo graphs work.

Line Bar Combo graphs are in the Standard Data Class (see Chapter 12 for details). To create a Line Bar Combo graph with PopChart XML, create a Graph element and set its Type attribute to Line Bar, as shown in the example below.