Area

Best for: visualizing volumes of data over time.

Configuration

Palette: uses the first color of the selected color palette.

Trend type (Required): The collection of time to be viewed. For example, daily or weekly.

Date range (Required): The period of time to be visualized. For example, last month.

Date field (Required): The field that is used in the trend type.

Curve type: how the area chart curve is calculated. Try some of these out to get a feel for what works best for you.

Threshold: if a value is set, a horizontal line will appear to visualize a threshold against the area chart.

Display grid: displays horizontal grid lines behind the area chart.

Display label: if set, this value will be what is displayed as the chart title. If empty, the name of the chart will be used as the chart title. Set this value to none if you don’t want a chart title to be displayed.