Charting External Data

Charting external data lets you perform analysis on data that is not stored in GainSeeker tables. It is available from the File menu in the GainSeeker Charts module.

You may want to use this feature if your quality, performance, scheduling, or other business data is stored in files, databases, or other sources on your system and you do not want to maintain a second copy of this data in the GainSeeker tables. You can still store the data you are analyzing in the GainSeeker tables if you later choose.

 

There are two steps to charting external data:

  1. Choose how to access the external data:

  2. Perform analysis on the external data

 

All of the standard features for analyzing data and printing reports are available when charting external data from the File menu, except for:

If these features are needed, you can save the external data in GainSeeker and then delete the range of data from GainSeeker when finished.