How to draw charts

[Markus]

Hello community,

I have the challenge drawing charts for management reports. I manage to extract those values from excel files.

I would now start implementing a new library creating charts - if none exists, yet. Does anyone know if there exists a robotframework library for drawing charts?

Regards,
Markus

[mika]

Hi Markus. Sounds really interesting.

About any Python package can be used as a library - there is no need to restrict yourself to just “robotframework” libraries (and wrapping to custom library is quite easy also) Of course usability depends on what kind of interface the library provides.

I would probably at least try to use this one https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py and I would look into this one https://towardsdatascience.com/make-the-cutest-chart-in-python-visualize-your-data-with-hand-drawn-charts-f21157f76b4b

[mika]

I like the look of those cutechart charts, but maybe they are not for the management
graph.robot

*** Settings ***
Library  Graph.py

*** Tasks ***
Drawing Graphs
  Draw Line
  Draw Radar

Graph.py

from cutecharts.charts import Line
from cutecharts.charts import Radar
from cutecharts.components import Page
from cutecharts.faker import Faker

def draw_line():
    chart = Line("Line")
    chart.set_options(
        labels=["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G"],
        x_label="I'm xlabel",
        y_label="I'm ylabel",
    )
    chart.add_series("series-A", [57, 134, 137, 129, 145, 60, 49])
    chart.add_series("series-B", [114, 55, 27, 101, 125, 27, 105])
    chart.render("example_line.html")

def draw_radar():
    chart = Radar("Radar")
    chart.set_options(labels=Faker.choose())
    chart.add_series("series-A", Faker.values())
    chart.add_series("series-B", Faker.values())
    chart.render("example_radar.html")

[jani]

Beautiful!