# Best approach gathering data for report and building report

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**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-approach-gathering-data-for-report-and-building-report/111210 "2025-10-06T15:48:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clancy\_Cavanaugh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@Clancy\_Cavanaugh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Clancy_Cavanaugh)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-approach-gathering-data-for-report-and-building-report/111210/10 "2025-10-14T21:10:53Z")

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I don’t have any experience with it, but I found this forum post that might point in the right direction.

> [@Report chart legend labels that start with a number](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-chart-legend-labels-that-start-with-a-number/91416/3):
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> More complicated, but giving you ultimate control, would be to use the configureChart extension function hook to set up exactly what you want.

I think Paul is pointing to the Chart Scripting that is briefly mentioned in the documentation here: [Report Charts | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/reporting/report-design/report-charts#chart-scripting)

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