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About CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Parts

The CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Part is based on standard Microsoft Office Excel charting features. You can use CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Parts to view pictorial representations of data from a CA Clarity PPM data provider. You can refresh charts displayed in CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Parts periodically to display charts based on the updated data in CA Clarity PPM.

A CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Part can represent CA Clarity PPM data that are of the following data types:

• Numeric. Attributes of this data type can be plotted along the category and series axes.
• Date. Attributes of this data type can be plotted only along the category axis.
• String. Attributes of this data type can be plotted only along the category axis.

Note: If two or more records retrieved by the project data provider have the same category attribute values, only the first instance is plotted on the chart. Therefore, ensure that the CA Clarity PPM project data provider for retrieving data for display in CA Clarity PPM Chart Web Parts contains unique values for the attributes to plot on the horizontal (category) axis. This frequently means a Studio query that does aggregation by the selected category attribute.