# Start a Visual Analysis Session

Visual Analysis is a WYSIWYG product to visualize the result of every step of your work. Simply by dragging and dropping data fields to the layout module, you are able to experience the detailed building up of crosstabs and charts step by step visually.

To start a new Visual Analysis session and perform data analysis:

1. On the JReport Console > Resources page, click New > Analysis.

2. In the Select Data Source dialog, select the required one, for example, WorldWideSalesBV in `/SampleReports`, and then click OK.

3. The Visual Analysis window will be loaded. The display type shows Text by default.

4. To view total sales, drag Total Sales from the Resources panel and drop it to the Label button in the legend section.

   There is only one value in the data presentation area which is the total sales in the whole business view.

5. Now let's view total sales in different years. Drag Sales Year to the column control box .

6. To add product category as the row header, drag Category to the row control box .

7. Click on the toolbar to save the result as a visual analysis template.

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