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Overview
Chart appearance
Zoom and crosshair (not available in the reports)
Managing the zoom
Managing the crosshair
Title and legend
Animations and background image
Animations
Background image
Interactivity

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Chart control: "Detail" tab

Overview

Regardless of the editor (window, page or report), the "Details" tab found in the description window of Chart control is used to describe:

the chart appearance,
the characteristics of zoom and crosshair,
the chart interactivity (including the crosshair),
the title and legend,
the animations and the background image.

Chart appearance

The characteristics regarding the chart appearance are as follows:

StrikeOut toolbar This option lets you set the display of the toolbar associated with the Chart control. This toolbar allows the user to define the display characteristics of the chart. The "..." button is used to define the different options proposed in the toolbar.
Reduce jagged effects (Anti-aliasing): enables antialiasing if GDI+ is installed.
This option is not available.
Realistic light effect: creates a light effect on the graph. If this option is checked, the bevel percentage is used to configure the inclination of light.
This option is not available.
Automatic border colors: If this option is checked, series border colors are calculated automatically..
Gradient colors: Use gradient colors to display series.. The gradient is vertical by default but you have the ability to use a horizontal gradient.
Display the stacked labels as well: This option allows labels to overlap in Sector, Hemicycle and Doughnut graphs., ...
This option is not available.
Display labels outside sections: This option allows labels to be placed outside the portions in Sector, Hemicycle, Doughnut type charts., ...
This option is not available.
Show values: Displays values in addition to percentages in labels. You have the ability to define the display mask that will be used.
The Show values vertically displays the values vertically.

Zoom and crosshair (not available in the reports)

Managing the zoom

Enabling the zoom allows the user to perform a zoom on the data displayed in the chart.

Allow horizontal zoom: enables zooming of values along horizontal axis only. The zoom scrollbar is placed below the control.
Allow vertical zoom: enables zooming of values along vertical axis only. The zoom scrollbar is placed on the right of control.

Managing the crosshair

The crosshair allows the user to precisely know the pointed value. For more details, see Crosshair in a chart.

The crosshair is enabled via "Enable chart crosshair".

The "Multiple crosshair (stacked lines and columns)" option allows using multiple crosshairs in Line or Column charts.

Note: The crosshairs are available for the following graph types: Area, Bubble, Curve, Column chart, MinMax, Radar and Waterfall.

Title and legend

The title and the legend can be configured in a Chart control.

The "Edit chart title" button is used to display the chart title description window . This window is used to:

Type (if necessary) the chart title.
Configure its positioning. If a manual positioning is selected, you have the ability to move the title area in the editor.
Configure the style used to display the chart title.

The "Edit chart legend" button is used to display the chart legend description window. This window is used to:

Define the positioning of legend.
This positioning can be automatic or manual.
If a manual positioning is selected, you can:
- move the legend area in the editor.
- choose the position of captions (in rows or in columns)
- adapt the legend size to the content
Define the legend's aspect: A rounded frame can be used for the legend..
Defin the style of legend (font, ...).

Animations and background image

Animations

Some charts can be animated.

For the 2D charts, you have the ability to enable (or not) the animations.

For the 3D charts, several options can be configured:

Zoom in,
Progressive drawing,
Rotation,
Progressive colors.

"Enable animations" allows animating the chart.

For more details, see Animation of Chart control.

Background image

The background image will be displayed in chart background.

The 9-slice scaling mode can be used for this image.

You can define:

the image location.
its display mode.

Interactivity

The interactivity of the Chart control is used to enable:

the animations
the chart crosshair.
Reminder: The crosshairs provide the user with precise information about the value being aimed at. For more details, see Crosshair in a chart.

Remarks:

In order for the interactivity to be real, this feature must be supported by the browser used.
Only interactive Chart controls are available.