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The Chart step formatting menu bar provides you with all the formatting options for your chart. You can use these options to change settings such as the legend, background, axis and label.
Note: the menus and items contained within them will change based on the type of chart you are using.
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- Formatting: this will reset your formatting selections, but keep the chart type and field selections defined.
- Chart: this will reset your chart, including all formatting, field, and chart type selections, returning it to an empty state.
Chart Settings
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The chart format options are the most dynamic options and are based on the type of chart selected. For example for a pie chart you will be able to set the shadow colour and exploding slice options. The common options found in the chart format drop down include interactivity options such as visible series selection.
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Title
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The title option allows you to change the title of the chart as well as the style – such as the font settings.
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Legend
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The Legend is a box that identifies the patterns or colours that are assigned to the data series or categories in a chart. This section of the menu lets you set the following options.
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Axis
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The Axis scale drop down lets you determine the scale dimensions. Generally you will only be able to set the Y Axis attributes – unless you are using XY charts in which case you can set both X & Y attributes.
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Background
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The Background options let you set the style and colour of the main chart elements such as the plot and chart areas. You can apply elements such as background images and or gridlines.
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Gridline options are available for all category charts, bubble and scatter charts.
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The entire chart and all its elements are described as the chart area. The drop down options let you set the background colours applied to the chart area.
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Labels
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Labels can be added to charts to print out the values of the data point onto the chart in text format. Charts that support labels include line, pie, and bar charts. Note: These settings will differ according to the selected chart type.
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Series
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Series
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Format
To update the formatting of a selected, individual value in a series (i.e. a singular value of the dimension field). Ensure to select a non auto chart to format the series.
This includes the following buttons on the left-side panel:
- +Add Series - This button is used to format a series existing in the data set of the selected dimension color field. Note that it does not create a new series; the series specified here should match a value in the selected field. Click on this button, and provide the series formatting details.
- +Populate Series - This button is used to retrieve all the series values from the selected dimension field, and add them to this column. You can them select each one and format them.
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Customize the border of the selected value. This refers to the data value represented in the charts, and the legend.
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Aggregation Label | This allows you to toggle the display of a label in front of the field name, based on the chart level aggregation applied. |
Style | Specify the shading style for the series. |
Direction | Select the direction of the gradient shading to be applied to the series. |
Colour | Define the colour(s) to be applied to the series. |
Combination Sub Chart | Specify which sub chart this series belongs to. This will define the type of chart, and which vertical axis it will use. |
Shapes | Define whether line shapes are on, off, or system default. |
Thickness | Define the width of the line in pixels. |
title | Border |
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Colour | Define a colour for the outline of the series. |
Width | Define the width of the outline of the series. |
title | Colour |
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Define the colour set and bounds to be applied to the series.
This is where you can define the bounds of the colour when using a gradient or colour set. Options include:
- Auto - this automatically works out the min and max values of the chart.
- Range - this allows you to provide the min and max values for the bounds of the chart colour range.
- Centre - this allows you to provide the mid point value for the chart colour range.
This allows you to select from a list of pre-defined colour sets for your chart, or alternatively define your own.
Pre-defined Colour Sets | Custom Colour Set |
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Speed | Define how long each frame is displayed for. |
title | Conditional |
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Display | Enable/Disable the display of conditional formatting alerts on the chart. |
Style | Select how to display the alerts on the chart from three styles:
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Position | Define whether the alert should be displayed in the foreground (in front) of the chart, or in the background (behind) the chart. |
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Category
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Sort By | Specify how the data in the chart is ordered, from one of these options;
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Sort Series | Specify which series should be used to order the data in the chart. |
Sort Direction | Specify if the data should be sorted in ascending or descending order. |
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The color applied to the chart will be based on the selection made here.
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Category
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Allows you to remove dimensions/categories from charts, in order to decrease the chart size. This is ideal for situations in which charts contain too many categories, making it difficult to view them properly. This feature allows you to select a specific number of categories to display. Supported bar types: Bars, areas, line (except Z charts), auto charts (with only a single dimension field). Note: This does not work for charts with dimension colors.
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Category Highlight | Specify if certain category values should be highlighted in the chart, changing the colour specified by the series. |
Highlighted Value | Select the value(s) to be highlighted in the chart, from the list provided. |
Highlight Colour | Select a colour to use as the category highlight. |
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Combination Charts
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