Setting Display Options and Scale Formats for Charts
Use the Display Options subtab to specify visual formats on the chart. These options, unless otherwise noted, simultaneously apply to the X- and Y-axes.
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Display Options |
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Font |
From the drop-down menu, select a font style and size for the X- and Y-axis text. |
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Show Legend, Placement |
Select this box to show a legend of the data elements. Keep in mind the number of different data elements your query may return. If the data you selected contains many elements, the legend may be large, which reduces the available space for the chart itself. If you choose to display the legend, you can move its location from choices in the Placement drop-down menu. |
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Show X-Axis grid, Show Y-Axis grid |
For the selected axis, include the grids on the report. The X-axis grid displays as vertical lines per data point, and the Y-axis grid displays as horizontal lines. |
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Scale and Format |
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Data (x-axis) |
Show Labels |
Select this box to display the labels for data points on the X-axis. |
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Data (y-axis) |
Logarithmic Scale |
Use this option if your data point deltas are so huge that incorporating them on the chart poses a readability issue; for example, one data point is 1,000 and the next is 100,000. With logarithmic scaling, values are then displayed in orders of magnitude instead of linearly. |
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Show Value |
Displays the value of the data point. |
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Min |
The minimum value as a starting data point to plot on the chart. For example, if you set it to 1000, values below that will not be plotted. The chart begins at 1000 on the Y-axis. If left blank, plotting starts at the 0,0 position. |
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Max |
The maximum value for the data point. |
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Incr |
Increments to use on the Y-axis starting with the specified minimum. |