Plot
A Plot draws a chart from either M-Files objects or a SQL data source you have configured. It supports several traces on one chart, a secondary Y axis, and the usual chart types.
CtrlPortals has two charting components, and Plot is the one to use. Plot view, its predecessor, is deprecated: charts already built with it keep working, but new ones belong here.
No M-Files Reporting Server is involved. Data is read at display time, which means a plot is always current and also that a very broad query is a slow plot — scope it with filters.
Visual Type still offers Map, but map visuals are no longer rendered: since 3.26.9.28 the plotting library ships without its map support, and a map visual draws nothing. Use bar, pie, line, scatter or indicator.
A user can click a bar or slice to open the rows behind it in a table. That table offers cell editing only when Drill-down: allow editing is on.
Plot Configuration
Configuration for the plot that will be displayed.
Title
The title that is displayed above the plot.
Drill-down: allow editing
Lets users edit cells in the table that opens when a point of a visual is clicked, like the List View's "Allow editing". Off by default: a drill-down is there to look at the numbers behind a point, not to change them. M-Files permissions apply either way. SQL data is never editable. Default: no.
Visuals
The list of visuals that are displayed in the plot. For instance, this could be a single bar chart, multiple bar charts, or a combination of bar and line charts.
Generated from CtrlPortals 3.26.9.53.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Configuration overview
- About CtrlPortals — how modules sit inside segments