Data source (Chart)
Select whether the Chart takes the data you want to display from a data table or from a set of input channels.
Data Table
For this setting, the Chart shows the contents of a table as a diagram.
Enter the name of and path to the data table containing the data, or click the button
and select the table in the dialog Select Object. Enter the Range of the table cells you want to show.
To show all cells in all columns and rows, enter {*,*}..{*,*}.
To show the first four cells of column one, enter {1,1}..{1,4}.
To show all cells in column one, enter {1,1}..{1,*}.
You can also enter negative numbers:
To show the one but last column, enter {-2,*}..{-2,*}.
To show the one but last and the last column of the table, enter {-2,*}..{*,*}.
Input Channels
For this setting, the Chart shows the channels contained in the Data Table.
To open a table into which you enter the input channels, click Data Table. These channels are, as a rule, the paths to attributes or methods of objects, whose values you want to display.
To delete the entire contents of the input channels table, hold down Shift while you drag-and-drop a new object onto the Chart.
You can also enter complex expressions, such as the sum of two attributes, method calls, formulas, etc. Enter text for labeling the Chart in the row index and the column index.
To enter a formula, type it directly into the respective cell of the DataTable. Do not click the formula button 
on the List ribbon tab of the DataTable!
To change the order in which the Chart shows the stations, edit the table of the Input channels by cutting the respective columns and pasting them in the desired order.
When the amount of data to be displayed is extremely large, it may take some time to show the Chart. This applies, for example, to a table containing several tens of thousands of cells. Some chart types, for example the 3D types, also take a comparatively large amount of time to display.
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