Portable Interactive Graphics (Charts)

Pie Charts | Curve Charts | Vertical Bar Charts (Column Charts) | Horizontal Bar Charts (Bar Charts)

Portable Interactive Graphics (PIG) provide an easy to use interface for implementing charts in MiniApps or other SAP applications. The following chart types are available as PIG charts for SAP developers:

Pie charts
Curve charts: Lines, areas, stacked
Vertical bar charts (column charts): 2D, 3D, stacked
Horizontal bar charts (bar charts): 2D, 3D, stacked

Below we present examples using these chart types. See Recommendations for Charts and Graphics in the SAP Design Guild for information of the usage of the different chart types.

Note: The actual charts may differ from the charts shown here, depending on the version of the PIG charts.

Pie Charts


Figure 1a: Pie chart	Figure 1b: 3D pie chart (not recommended)

Curve Charts

Lines


Figure 2a: Line chart	Figure 2b: 3D line chart (not recommended)

Areas


Figure 3a: Cumulative (stacked) area chart	Figure 3b: Cumulative (stacked) 3D area chart (not recommended)

PIG also offers non-stacked area charts. However, we do not recommend to use these charts, because the colored areas provide a wrong impression of the actual data values (which relate to the x-axis and not to the nearest line).

Vertical Bars Charts (Column Charts)


Figure 4a: Column chart	Figure 4b: 3D column chart (not recommended)


Figure 4c: Multiple column chart	Figure 4d: Multiple 3D column chart (not recommended)


Figure 4e: Stacked column chart	Figure 4f: Stacked 3D column chart (not recommended)

Horizontal Bar Charts (Bar Charts)


Figure 5a: Horizontal bars	Figure 5b: 3D horizontal bars (not recommended)


Figure 5c: Multiple horizontal bars	Figure 5d: Multiple 3D horizontal bars (not recommended)


Figure 5e: Stacked horizontal bars	Figure 5f: Stacked 3D horizontal bars (not recommended)

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