Origin supports plotting grouped Box chart from both Indexed Data or Raw Data.

Menus are available under Plot: Statistics menu. Buttons are available from 2D Graphs toolbar.

How to:

• Indexed Data: 
  Add group info column to Group List. This will break the origin column into subcolumns and plot each one as a box.
• Raw Data: 
  Select the number of group level in Group Number dropdown list, specify the label rows for each group level. Each column will be plotted as a box.

Note:

• Both method support the number of group levels up to 5.
• If using raw data to plot grouped box, you need to Sort Column by Values in Column Labels first.

How to:

• Increment Settings within Subgroups: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, check Use incrementing check box.
• Separated Spacing Control Between or Within Subgroups: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Spacing tab.

How to:

• Position boxes by a column label row: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, choose label name in  X Position dropdown.
• Horizontal Graph: 
  Click Graph: Exange X-Y Axes menu.

How to:

• Specify boxes width by a column label row: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, select Box Width by Parameter check box, choose label row 
  name in  Box Width(%) dropdown list..
• Label box and whisker with data value:
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, check Box Labels check box and Whisker Labels. choose Values 
  from the Show dropdown list
• Draw data on top of boxes: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, check Draw Data on Top of Box checkbox.
• Set Data display width:
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Data tab, input Bins Alignment: Data Width(%). If set it to 0, 
  for example, data points will be in a line.
• Indexing or mapping for data symbol color: 
  Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Symbol tab. Set Symbol Color dropdown list to be Indexing/Color Mapping, 
  and specify a column to be the reference.

How to:

Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab, set Box: Style to be I-shaped/Notched Box.

You can also change the parameters to custom your own box style.

How to:

Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Lines tab.

How to:

1. Go to Plot Details: Plot Properties: Box tab
   You need to set Type to be Box or Box+Data to show outliers.
2. Check Outliers checkbox.
3. Check Outliers in Line checkbox to line them up.

How to:

1. Right click the origin legend in the graph and choose Legend:Box Chart Components....
2. In Legendbox dialog, select the elements you want to show in the new legend.

How to:

With Box chart graph window active, open Tools:Theme Organizer.

We provide some common box chart themes. User can apply it to quickly change box chart.

How to:

1. Table-liked Tick Labels
   Select Table check box
2. Define Rows in Table
   
   Expand the Table tree node and select in the Number of Rows drop-down list, Bottom N node will be shown in the 
   left panel. You can select and specify the settings in the Bottom N page (right panel)
3. Different Style of Each Row
   Select Independent Layouts check box, specify the style in the Table Layout branch of each Bottom N page.
   Each row can be hided individually if selected Hide Table Row
4. Different Font Color and Style in Each Row
   Expand the Table tree node and select Table: Independent Formats check box and specify the format in the 
   Format branch of each Bottom N page
5. Set Background Color of the Row
   Expand the Table tree node and select from the Fill Color colorlist.

6. Set Border of the Row
   Expand the Table Layout tree node under the Table branch, select or clear the Near Parallel Border,
   Far Parallel Border, Inside Border and Outside Border check box
   
   
   

How to:

1. Merged Cells
   Expand the Table tree node and select Merge Labels check box. Please note that only  adjacent cells containing 
   the same text will be merged
2. Gap Between Subgroups
   Expand the Table Layout tree node under the Table branch, Select Gap Between Subgroups/Subsets check box. 
   Go to Grids node in left panel, turn on Major Grid Lines: Show check box.
   Note: The options only works for grouped plots. The spacing between subsets are controlled in the Plot Details dialog
   
   
   

How to:

Graph1 illustrate 3 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Indexing or mapping for data symbol color
2. Grouped box chart from Raw Data
3. Table-liked Tick Labels
4. Legend for the Color-indexed Data Points

How to:

Graph2 illustrate 3 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Grouped box chart from Raw Data
2. Separated control of Whisker and Cap
3. Outliers aligned in a line
4. Table-liked Tick Labels

How to:

Graph3 illustrate 4 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Grouped box chart from Raw Data
2. I-Shape Box
3. Separated control of Whisker
4. Table-liked Tick Labels

How to:

Graph4 illustrate 3 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Grouped box chart from Raw Data
2. Show median and mean line and support separated style
3. Table-liked Tick Labels

How to:

Graph5 illustrate 2 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Position boxes by a column label row
2.  Horizontal Graph

How to:

Graph6 illustrate 3 improvements of the Box Chart in 9.1

1. Box width defined by a column label row
2. Draw data on top of boxes
3. Label the box and whiskers with data value