About chart settings

Provides information about changing the appearance of a chart.

You can modify the following chart settings:

Change the chart type by clicking an icon that represents the type.
Note If you are selecting more than two series, you cannot select Bar & Line. If you are selecting more than three series, you cannot select 2 Bars & 1 Line or 1 Line & 2 Bars or 2 Stacked & Line. When creating a pie chart, you can only select one series.
Select items to graph. The series are charted in the order they appear in the Selected items list. You can change the order that items appear using Move Up and Move Down.
Remove items from the chart.
If the dimension or metric names are so long that you cannot see the full name, you can resize the dialog box.
It is possible to have dimension member labels as long as 128 characters. If you have long member names, they may not appear in the chart. If you are changing the chart settings of a report in the Reports component, you can select a smaller number in the Display label characters drop-down list of the Presentation section to display a portion of the labels.
If you are creating a chart that compares trends between disparate items, you can chart two or three series on the same chart, using dual Y-axis scales and different chart types to differentiate the series for each axis. A dual axis allows you to more accurately represent the comparison of disparate items.
Select the periodicity for the chart. The time periods appear along the X-axis. By default, all periods for which there is data are charted according to the selected periodicity.

You can modify the following chart options:

Type a title for the chart.
Specify minimum and maximum values to chart along the Y-axis. By default, all values are displayed. The chart will adjust to show all points starting at the minimum number. If any points are lower than that number, they are shown starting from the minimum number. The chart will adjust to show all points up to the maximum number. If any points exceed that number, they are cut off at that number.
Add a label that will appear along the Y-axis of the chart.
Add horizontal and/or vertical grid lines.
Display the chart legend.
Scale the numbers.
Example If you have numbers in the millions, you might want to scale it by 1,000,000 to show all numbers as single digits. Then you can identify the scale being used in the label.
Change the color of a series. The current designations are show in the Colors list.