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Providing Data

The documents in this section describe approaches for providing data for your chart.

There are two general ways of providing data to your chart.

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Manual series creation

Each series is explicitly added to the diagram's collection. A series is not displayed unless it has points, so you should populate your series with points in one of the two following ways:

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Automatic series creation

In this type of series creation, you specify a data source and a common template. Based on the data source and common template, series are created and populated automatically.

Note that you do not need to specify a scale type before providing data for a chart because the Series.ArgumentScaleType property is set to the Auto mode by default.

For more details, see Series Scale Types.