Styling Options for Charts
Change the look of a chart tile including placement on the page, border format, number formatting, label placement, and so on.
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Select a tile on the page.
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Open the Designer panel and select
(Styling).
The Styling panel displays options available for the selected tile type. Some options may not be available to all users.
For charts and tables, you see only the styling options for the specific area that you have highlighted. The heading in the Styling panel identifies the area. For example, it may show Title, Data Cell, Axis Labels, and so on. Selecting a different part of the table or chart changes the heading and the styling options.
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Select desired tile options.
Widget
Styling Options |
Description |
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Background Color |
Select a background color for this tile. |
Border |
Select to add a border around the tile. You can also pick a style, the line width, and corner radius for the border. |
Actions
Change the placement of the chart on the canvas.
(Send Backward)
(Send to Back)
(Bring Forward)
(Bring to Front)
Data Points
Styling Options |
Description |
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Data Point Selection |
Select all data points or specific data points, lines, or other options. |
Fill Color |
Change the color of the data point or line. |
Font
Styling Options |
Description |
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Text Selection |
Select whether the change applies to all the text labels or one or more of the following labels. Standard labels for most chart types:
Labels that apply to specific chart types:
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Numeric Point chart labels |
Additional labels for the chart:
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Font |
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Size |
The axis labels automatically adjust to minimize the amount of overlapping or truncated values. If you override the axis label font size, the labels will no longer automatically adjust. |
Color |
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Style |
Number Format
Styling Options |
Description |
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Scale |
Select how to display the numbers on an axis: whether to show all digits for each data point or to display the values as thousands, millions, or billions.
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Scale Format |
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Measure Selection |
Choose an included measure to apply the formatting to. |
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Decimal Places |
Select the number of decimal places to display. Default: the default number of decimal places is set in the model. Automatic: truncates values to at
least three digits. Values that are less than one will have
three decimal places. Larger values will have the decimal
places truncated.
Example
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Show Sign As |
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Legend
Styling Options |
Description |
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Placement |
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Alignment |
Select how to align the legend in relation to the chart. |
Labels
Styling Options |
Description |
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Axis Label Direction |
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Axis Label Truncation |
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Data Label Background Color |
Use a background color for data labels to improve the readability of the data labels. To use a custom color or to change the opacity of the background color, from the data label color picker, select More and then make your choices. |
Data Label |
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Bubble or Scatterplot |
Other options available when a Bubble
or Scatterplot chart is selected:
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Donut or Pie |
Absolute Value – show labels as absolute value instead of percentage. |
Axis
Styling Options |
Description |
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Axis Line Color |
Change the color of the axis line. |
Hyperlink
Styling Options |
Description |
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Hyperlink |
Link to another story, page, or external URL from this tile. |