6 million. Some users will
question the time period that is covered, but in this case, hopefully it is obvious:
since no time has been specified, this is for all time, as well as all customers, all
employees, and so on.
There isn??™t much else that can be done with this particular chart while in Design
mode, but clicking the Browse button opens a viewer that allows the developer to
test how end users will be able to interact with this particular chart. Opening the
chart in the Browse Analytic Report viewer is, at first, not any more exciting than
viewing it in Design mode. Now, however, moving the mouse over the Big Blue Bar
turns the mouse pointer into a hand, indicating a clickable region. Clicking once on
the Big Blue Bar changes the view to that shown in Figure 6-4.
In Figure 6-4, it is easy to see that the Mountain Product Line is the largest
contributor to Gross Profit by far (realize this is gross profit in dollars, not the gross
profit margin, which is a percentage.) But why did clicking on the bar go from the
All level of the Product Model Lines hierarchy to the product Line level? This is
because, by default, clicking on a bar will drill the user down one level on whatever
hierarchy is listed on the Y-axis (the Series). Note too that the browser window has
Back and Forward buttons in the upper left-hand corner, so that users can easily go
back to the previous view of the chart.
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Clicking on the Accessory bar will show the chart as it appears in Figure 6-5.
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