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Using the Chart Web Parts

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Using the Chart Web Parts

A new Web Part available in SharePoint 2010 is the Chart Web Part. Now, the Chart Web Part isn't limited to the Business Intelligence Center, but that might be the first place that you come across it because it's used on a couple of the sample pages. The Chart Web Part can be fueled with a variety of data, things from Excel Services, from Business Data Connections, or from your own SharePoint lists. And in fact I have a simple custom SharePoint list that I've created here called 2010 Orders, which simply breaks down some different regions, some quarters and the amount. And this is a perfect example of data that's just quite difficult to look at and really understand any kind of progress, any kind of structure that's happening to it. Yes, we can understand this data if we spent enough time, but having this in a chart so we can see if certain regions are on the upswing or the downswing could be very useful, and it's very easy to do with the Chart Web Part. So I'm going to go back to the…

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