- Click the green button “Create New Chart” on
Home page.
- Click “New Data Source” at right bottom of
screen.
- Click “Upload Data Source” at bottom of screen.
- Select a properly formatted Excel or .CSV file.
- Click “Save” to save the data sheet.
- Select the type of Chart from the choices shown.
- “Data Columns” are shown in the right window.
- Click and drag the proper columns to X and Y
axes.
- Resize your chart by dragging the corners.
- Change chart attributes like color, font etc.
- “Save” the chart.
- New
Data Source
- Click the green button “Create New Chart” on
Home page.
- Click “New Data Source” at right bottom of
screen
- There are three ways to input data - shown at
left bottom of screen.
i. New Empty Data Sheet – Displays an empty table. Enter data into the cells.
ii. Upload Data From File – Dialog box is displayed. Select an Excel file to
upload.
iii. Connect External Data Source on the Web:
Type in the URL pointing to a
CSV file on your private server.
Example: http://demo.ichartsbusiness.com/help/oilgold.csv
The chart
created with this data is always linked to this file on your server.
- Change
Chart Attributes
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Chart Title – Click on title. Change attributes
at the bottom of the screen.
- Chart Axis – Click on X or Y axis and change
axis attributes in the dialog box.
- Chart Legend
i. Click on the colored box inside the Legend box. Select from Drop down
Menu to change different attributes.
ii. Click inside the legend box and resize the box by dragging corners
- Axis Labels – Click on axis labels and change
attributes like font, size, location etc.
- Save
Chart
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Click on “Save” at bottom to save the chart in
your iCharts account.
- Publish
Chart
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Click on “Publish” at bottom of screen.
- Share
Chart
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Click on “Share” at bottom of screen.
- Type in email addresses in the dialog box to
share your chart.
- Download
Chart
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Click on “Download” at bottom of screen.
- Download the iChart as fully
interactive,self-contained chart (it's a flash file) that you can embed
into PDF or PowerPoint document.
- You can also download the chart as TIFF, GIF, JPEG
and PDF.
- Add
Audio Comment to Chart
- If you are not in “Edit” mode, select “Edit”
from the drop down menu below the chart.
- Click on “Audio Comment” at bottom of screen.
- Upload an audio file in mp3 format.
- Or enter an URL for the audio track.
- Insert
iChart on your web page
- In the Edit mode. Click “Publish” to publish
your chart to iCharts portal.
- Go to Home page.
- Below your chart in the drop down menu, select
“Preview”
- Embed code is displayed at the left.
- Copy the embed code and paste it in the HTML
code of your website.
- Organize
your charts
- On the home page, on left side click “create new folder”.
- Click and drag you charts to the new folder.
- Other folder management options are also
available.
- Tag your charts for Search
- In the Edit mode, click on “Description” tab.
- Type in the keywords for search in the “Tags for
this chart” text box.
- Save the chart.
- Excel Format for Upload into iCharts
- Data file needs to be in Excel 2003 format
- The data needs to be set up in a simple tabular
format starting in cell A1 (see image)
- The data is set up with each column representing
a data series or set of data labels
- Row 1 contains the names for each data series
- Formulas will not be read, cells with formulas
will be interpreted as zero
- The first data sheet will be uploaded
Image 1: Excel Format
.