Additional Graph Settings dialog box

Note: This topic applies to the graphing tool, which is supported for backward compatibility. We recommend that, if you want to add charts or gauges to a form, use the newer FusionCharts tool instead.

See About charts and gauges.

Layout options

These options pertain to the Layout group.


Field/Option	Description
Type	This option sets the relative position of the chart, title, and legend within a graph component. For example, to position the graph on the left, the graph title on top, and the legend on the right, select Chart - Left / Title - Top / Legend - Right. To specify custom positions, sizes, and margins for the three objects, select Custom. You can then set layout values on the notebook tabs Chart, Title, and Legend.
Width	This option specifies the width of the current object (chart, title, or legend) as a percentage of the width of the entire graph control container. For example, to set the width of a chart as half the width of the container, specify the value 50 (50 percent of container width). If you enter the value 0, the object is not displayed.
Height	This option specifies the height of the current object (chart, title, or legend) as a percentage of the height of the entire graph control container. For example, to set the height of a chart as half the height of the container, specify the value 50 (50 percent of container height). If you enter the value 0, the object is not displayed.
Left	This option specifies the distance from the left edge of the current object (chart, title, or legend) to the left edge of the graph control container as a percentage of the width of the container.
Top	This option specifies the distance from the top edge of the current object (chart, title, or legend) to the top edge of the graph control container as a percentage of the height of the container.
Anchor	This feature is not implemented.
Top, Bottom, Left, Right (margin)	This option specifies margins around the current chart or legend in graphical units. In a chart that has axis titles, margin settings determine the distance between the chart and the titles. In a legend, margin settings determine the distance between legend items and the outside edges of the legend object.
Graph Border Box	When selected, this option encloses the entire graph component container in a box border.

Axis options

These options pertain to the X-axis.


Field/Option	Description
Max Points Displayed	This option specifies the maximum number of data points to render in the X-axis. The graph ranges from the current object index to the number defined in this field.
No Labels	When selected, this option prevents the display of X-axis labels. Labels are not displayed, even if a property is selected in the Prop for X-Axis Labels field in the Specify Graph Settings dialog box.
Title Position	This option specifies whether the title for the X-axis is to display above the graph (Top) or below it (Bottom). The default is Bottom.
Label Orientation	This option specifies what orientation to use for the X-axis data labels: Up orients the text vertically, rotating the text 90° left. Down orients the text vertically, rotating the text 90° right. Horizontal (default) orients the text horizontally (normal reading orientation).

These options pertain to the Y-axis.


Field/Option	Description
Maximum	This option specifies the maximum possible value for the range of values measured along the Y-axis.
Minimum	This option specifies the minimum possible value for the range of values measured along the Y-axis.
Title Position	This option specifies whether the title for the Y-axis is to display to the Left of the graph or or to the Right. The default is Left.
Title Orientation	This option specifies what orientation to use for the title of the Y-axis: Blank (default) orients the text horizontally. Up orients the text vertically, rotating the text 90° left. Down orients the text vertically, rotating the text 90° right. Vertical orients the text vertically (same as Up).
Auto Round/Truncate	When selected, this option does two things: It allows you to specify what units of display to use for the Y-axis scale markers and the number by which the data values should be divided. It enables the Levels button.
Levels	This button is enabled only if the Auto Round/Truncate option is selected. When enabled and clicked, it opens the Edit Divisors dialog box, which allows you to set the options to display the scale markers on the Y-axis.

Legend options

These options pertain to the display of the legend.


Field/Option	Description
Border Box	When this option is selected, the legend is enclosed by a border.
Horizontal	When this option is selected, legend items are arranged left-to-right, rather than in a vertical stack.
Auto Text Color	When this option is selected, the system uses your specified text color in the legend box. When this option is cleared, the system uses the text (foreground) color of the base form.
Position	This option sets the position of icons or boxes in legend items relative to the text in the items.
Box Mode	This option sets the style in which legend items display with graphical elements: Icons pairs a graphical element with the text. Boxes pairs a colored box with the text. None displays only the text.

Others options

These options pertain to miscellaneous other options.


Field/Option	Description
Fonts group: Main Title Labels Other Titles Legends	These options specify what fonts are to be used in the display of various elements of the graph.
Reset to Default	To clear custom font specifications for the main title, labels, other titles, and legends, click this button.

Runtime options

These options pertain to system behaviors associated with the graph.


Field/Option	Description
Lock Objects	When this option is selected, users are prevented from moving and resizing of graph objects. When this option is cleared, users can move and resize a graph, its title, and its legend as separate objects.
Runtime Buttons (Print/Copy/Save)	When this option is selected, Print, Copy, and Save buttons are enabled for the graph, when the mouse pointer hovers over the graph component. When this option is cleared, access to these buttons is disabled.
Runtime Properties	When this option is selected, the right-click menu command Chart Property Pages, which displays configurable properties of a graph at run time is enabled. When this option is cleared, that command is disabled. Note: You can define a standard right-click menu, using the Right-Click Menu property on the Component property page.
Mouse Hover Data Display	When this option is selected, the actual value of a graph element displays as tooltip text when the mouse hovers over the element on the graph. To improve the formatting of the tooltip text, specify the data type properties for the graph element (for example, Underlying Type, Length, Decimal Point Position, and so on); or specify an existing component class that specifies the proper data type properties.