Creating reports with a chart data region
Charts and graphs are an increasingly important component of reporting. They convey information in just a glance, with a simple picture. It is likely you will be asked to create many reports with graphs, combining them to create dashboards.
In this section, we'll start with a simple graph to convey sales month by month based on the invoice date.
Getting ready
In the WideWorldImportersDW database, the data will be coming from the sales table. The report will display the total, including tax, summed up by invoice month/year and then charted. We'll start with the following query:
SELECT s.[Invoice Date Key]
, SUM(s.[Total Including Tax]) AS TotalSalesWithTax
FROM [Fact].[Sale] s
GROUP BY s.[Invoice Date Key]
How to do it...
Right-click on the Reports branch in the solution explorer.
Do NOT click on the Add New Report option in the pop-up menu. This launches the wizard, which does not support charts. Instead, select Add | New...
