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title: "Bar Chart Report"
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A Bar chart report is widely used for data visualization. Four types of bar charts can be created using the designer interface - **simple **bar chart, **stacked **bar chart, **multi-series** bar chart and **multi-axis** bar chart. This article explains how to create the different types of bar chart and provides a few examples.

## Steps to Create Bar Charts


1. The Report Designer interface opens when you create a report using a template or build one from scratch. To create a new report, click **Create new Report**. For more information, refer to [Report Templates](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ART/pages/1568276519).
2. Select **Report** **type **as *Chart*. **Bar **is selected as the default option.
3. **Simple Bar Chart - **one Dimension field for the X-axis and one Measure field for the Y-axis, optional Dimension fields for filters
  1. Add the **Dimension **fields from the left panel by clicking the drop-down sign next to the field name and selecting the appropriate destination (**X-axis or Optional Filters**)
  2. Add the **Measure** field from the left panel by clicking the '+' sign next to the field name. It will get added to **Y-axis** automatically
    
4. **Stacked Bar Chart** - one dimension field for the X-axis, one Measure field for the Y-axis and one Dimension field for 'Segment By', optional Dimension fields for filters
  1. Add the **Dimension **fields from the left panel by clicking the drop-down sign next to the field name and selecting the appropriate destination (**X-axis, ‘Segment By’ or Optional Filters**)
  2. Add the **Measure** field from the left panel by clicking the '+' sign next to the field name. It will get added to **Y-axis** automatically
    
5. **Multi-Series Bar Chart** - one Dimension field for the X-axis and more than one Measure fields for the Y-axis, optional Dimension fields for filters
  1. Add the **Dimension **fields from the left panel by clicking the drop-down sign next to the field name and selecting the appropriate destination (**X-axis, ‘Segment By’ or Optional Filters**)
  2. Add more than one **Measure** field from the left panel by clicking the '+' sign next to the field name. It will get added to **Y-axis** automatically
    
6. **Multi-Axis Bar Chart** - one Dimension field for the X-axis of each added axes, one Measure field for the Y-axis of each added axes, optional Dimension fields for filters of each added axes. Adding multiple axes is most useful if all the X-axis fields are either ‘dates’ or if they represent the same field. Each axis can also have it own filter criteria
  1. Add the **Dimension **fields from the left panel by clicking the drop-down sign next to the field name and selecting the appropriate destination (**X-axis, ‘Segment By’ or Optional Filters**)
  2. Add more than one **Measure** field from the left panel by clicking the '+' sign next to the field name. It will get added to **Y-axis** automatically
  3. Click **“Add another Axis” **and repeat the two above steps to get fields for the second axis
    
7. Click **Run** to view the results in the bottom pane (below is a screenshot of the multi-axis bar chart report).
8. Click **Save** to save the report for future use. Saved reports can be accessed via **Reports** → **My Reports.**

![image](media://aca6849e-48ab-4bdc-9c36-c9e01bce1070)

## **Additional Details**

### **Field Settings**

Settings on each field can be set by selecting the gear icon on each added field. Listed below are some examples of the options that are available from field settings:

- Change the label of the column
- Apply filters on the column
- Set date format
- Set aggregation formula

### **Page Settings**

Each page in a report can have a **Page Title **that will appear as the title of the page on the report. **Page settings** are also available for each page and differ based on the type of the report.

![image](media://aa55301e-dd48-4d80-b8a8-8a89ff6c9227)

## **Sample Reports**

1. **Simple Bar Chart - Count of issues in specified statuses **(issue types specified in Optional Filters)
  
2. **Stacked Bar Chart - Count of Issues created last month, broken down by issue type**
  
3. **Multi-series Bar Chart - Sprint Story Points details for all sprints of a specific project**
  
4. **Multi-axis Bar Chart - Issues Created vs Issues Resolved for specified time interval**
  

**Related articles**

- [Line Report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ART/pages/1577124679)