Report Definition form
Completing the Chart Definition dialog

Selection

Description

Select a type. For examples, review the small images or these definitions: area chart, bar chart, column chart, line chart, and pie chart.

Select a subtype for the selected type.

For bars and column charts the subtypes are:GATZH 3/30/2010

• Clustered — Groups bars or columns by category. Not used with area charts. This is the default.
• Overlaid — Displays multiple bars (or columns or areas) on top of each other, grouped by category, with the series specified last on top.
• Stacked — Stacks multiple bars (or columns or areas) end-to-end, grouped by category. Each bar represents the cumulative value of the values below.
• 100% — Stacks bars (or columns or areas) end-to-end, adding to 100%. Each bar represents a percentage of the sum of values of a category.

For area charts, the subtypes are:

• Overlaid — Displays multiple bars (or columns or areas) on top of each other, grouped by category, with the series specified last on top.  This is the default.
• Stacked — Stacks multiple bars (or columns or areas) end-to-end, grouped by category. Each bar represents the cumulative value of the values below.
• 100% — Stacks bars (or columns or areas) end-to-end, adding to 100%. Each bar represents a percentage of the sum of values of a category.

For a pie chart, the subtypes are:

• Normal — Contiguous pie slices.
• Exploded — Pie slices not adjacent.
• Doughnut — A wheel or pie with a central hole.

For a line chart, the subtypes are:

• Segment — Line segments connect data points.
• Step — Steps connect data points.
• Horizontal — Horizontal bands surround data points.
• Vertical — Vertical bands surround data points.
• Curve — Smooth curves connect data points.
• ReverseStep — Similar to step but data points connect right-to-left.

Chart Type

Field

Description

For pie charts, select a single group by column. For bar, column, area, and line charts, select one or two group by columns whose values provide the names of the wedges in ToolTips and legends. The selections use the column headings defined for these columns on the Design tab. 3/30/2010

Select a single summarized column. The selections use the column headings defined for these columns on the Design tab.

Optional. For bar, column, area, and line charts, selecting this option rotates the axes for the chart so that the horizontal axis becomes the vertical axis, and vice versa.

Optional. Enter a value to reduce the number of graph elements to a small set that users can more easily interpret. The default is no limit.

After sorting by largest category first, the system combines elements that rank lower than the limit into a single chart element. For example, if you limit to the top 5 values, the chart contains the top 5 values plus a 6th value representing the sum of all values not in the top 5.GATZH 3/30/2010

Optional.  For bar, column, area, and line charts, if you chose a numeric limit in the Limit to top field, and you selected more than one group by column to chart, identify which summarized column you want the top n elements of.

Field

Description

Select to include grid lines for the axis. If not selected, only tick marks appear.

Select to label points on the axis with values.

For a bar chart, select Left or Right as the location of the axis.

For column, line, and area charts, select Bottom or Top as the location of the axis.

For line charts. Select Category or DateTime to identify the elements of the axis.

For other chart types, only Category is used.

Select to include grid lines for the axis. If not selected, only tick marks appear.

Select to label points on the axis.

For column, line, and area charts, select Left or Right as the location of the axis.

For bar charts, select Bottom or Top as the location of the axis.

Field

Description

Select Small (300x200px), Medium (500x300px, or 350x300px for pie charts), Large (700x400px, or 400x300px for pie charts), or Custom. If you choose Custom, enter a width and height in pixels.

Select to display data points in ToolTip text.

Select to include a maximize button () that allows users of this interactive chart to open the chart in a new window at full screen size.

Select to include a Show Data button () that allows users to view the summary view data in tabular, non-chart format. This button is functional only when the chart is produced by the chart JSP tag.

If the Show Data Button box is selected, the summary view data will open in a new window rather than in the current window.

For column and bar charts only.

Choose a value between 0.1 and 1 to restrict the size of the largest column (or bar) as a fraction of the overall chart height (or width). For example, if a chart size is 300 pixels high and you select .5, columns in the chart can't be taller than 150 pixels. Accept the default setting of 0 to enforce no restriction.

Use an effect to allow users to interact with the chart. This is most useful for line charts with a DateTime axis and for other charts with many category values. Select an effect:

• Slide — To redraw the chart interactively by moving along values of the data axis.
• Zoom — To grow or shrink a segment of the chart to make detail more visible or less visible.
• Interpolate — For line and area graphs, to convert the image gradually.

Effects are not available for the Stacked and 100% chart subtypes.

For line charts. Select to control the width of lines in pixels.

For line charts. Select to apply a drop shadow to lines.

Select to present a legend identifying chart categories and colors for each category. If not selected, other fields in this area of the tab are ignored.

Select Horizontal or Vertical for the legend presentation.

Select Top, Left, Bottom or Right for the legend location relative to the chart.

For bar, column, area, and line charts only. Select to present a slider control. If not selected, other fields in this area of the tab are ignored. Not used with pie charts.

Optional. Enter title text to appear to the left of the slider, identifying the function or units of the slider.

Optional. Enter a width in pixels for the slider.

Optional. Enter a maximum number of group elements to present initially. The user can move the slider to see more or fewer elements.

Pie charts only.

Select to show labels that display information about each data point. If not selected, other fields in this area of the tab are ignored.

Pie charts only.

Select to include the size of the wedge relative to the pie in the label.

Field

Description

Enter a word or a phrase for the chart title.

Select a font style for the title text. Options include: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. 3/30/2010

Select the font size for the title text. 3/30/2010

Enter a word or phrase for the title of the group by column axis.

Enter a word or phrase for the title of the summarized column axis.

Select a font style for the axis titles. Options include: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic.

Select a font size for the axis titles.