# Create Your First Waterfall

After [installing ](https://docs.innofalls.com/getting-started/installation)Innofalls Charts and creating a new visual in your report, you are ready to create your first waterfall chart.

### Basic Setup

To create a waterfall chart, you need to fill at least two fields: **Levels** and **Values.** For example, fill in *Market* into Levels and *AC* into Values. This already shows a running totals waterfall chart. The chart shows a total bar at the end, summing up all previous data points.

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-4bcd7f30e751d80299d462bd2e85aee1c8db2d8d%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Levels and Values filled</p></figcaption></figure>

{% hint style="info" %}
Note that Innofalls automatically chooses temporal orientation (some say rotation), if you fill in a temporal dimension. You can set a fixed orientation in the menu. [Read more.](https://docs.innofalls.com/chart-types/chart-orientation-time-structure)
{% endhint %}

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-73d289bb2ffba0e889ed0d71bb8d19388c23b17c%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Temporal Orientation with Date</p></figcaption></figure>

### Stacking

When you add multiple measures into *Values*, you get a stacked waterfall chart.

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-7443784bddb2b7870af9e748771ce31c5d7bc18c%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Stacking two measures</p></figcaption></figure>

Stacking is the default option for multiple measures. If you prefer to have each measure in a separate waterfall chart, you can do so by choosing a [Stack / Column](https://docs.innofalls.com/getting-started/data-fields/stack-columns) option.

### Drill Downs

To enable *drill downs*, you have to add two or more dimensions into *Levels*. This gives you the option to click an element to see how it is made up.

Also note that a *plus icon* appears next to each category, which enables you to [*expand*](https://docs.innofalls.com/chart-types/waterfall-charts/intermediate-totals) it.

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-fc17687f00a3105cd86bc8802a8d3f5d98a1c4ee%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Drill Downs enabled</p></figcaption></figure>

Now, if you click an element in the chart, you will make a drill down into it. In this case we drilled into *Energy*, to see all underlying *Accounts:*

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You will notify 4 buttons above the main chart. This is our [drill down history](https://docs.innofalls.com/interactivity/navigation/drill-down-history). It gives us a retrospection on our previous level. Depending on the size of the visual, the drill down history will be shown as a chart (enough space) or as buttons (less space).

The drill down history offers an important ability: We can select **additional elements** from the previous level to drill down into.

### Delta Waterfall Chart

Select another element with a click *while holding down the control key (CTRL)*. The Innofalls visual creates a delta waterfall between the two selected elements, automatically calculating the differences between the two.

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-4a4d189ab29100b6f22b3677c72da43076cd4965%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption><p>Delta Waterfall between two selected elements</p></figcaption></figure>

You can select any combination of elements in the history, to make the comparisons you need.

{% hint style="info" %}
Note that by default, the waterfall type is selected automatically. When two or more elements in the drill down history are selected, the visual chooses the delta waterfall. If you need to keep the running totals visualization, you can change the type anytime in the menu.
{% endhint %}

### Usage Considerations

At this point, you can finalize the chart in its current form by [hiding the drill-down history](https://docs.innofalls.com/interactivity/navigation/drill-down-history#showing-hiding-drill-down-history) and [disabling navigation controls](https://docs.innofalls.com/interactivity/restrict-user-controls), making it ready for your report. This ensures that the report viewer cannot make further modifications to the chart.

Alternatively, you can keep the drill-down history and controls enabled, allowing experienced report viewers to interact with and explore the visual data in greater detail.

### Customization

The Innofalls Charts offer you a lot of customization options, accessible from the property pane. For example, by default the category width is limited. To disable this, locate the property *Limit Category Width* under *Sizes and Spaces* to disable this. In our case this makes our Drill Down History elements wider and more legible.

<figure><img src="https://3415705954-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F9tIV2XT53haGp6nlAPXL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-478ea8cacc6f45d4922c336403d925ab653600bc%2Fimage.png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Now that you created your first waterfall chart, head to the next section to read about all the data fields our visual has to offer.
