Use the Edit Divisors dialog box to specify
the units and divisors by which the Y-axis scale is to be marked and displayed.
For example, if the Y-axis data is to be displayed using millions of dollars,
use the fields in this dialog box to set that up. You would select the
option that uses 1000000 as the Divisor
and sMillions as the String.
When the form is opened and the graph is rendered, the data for the Y-axis
is then automatically divided by 1000000 and the label "Millions"
appears next to the Y-axis.
Note:
Just because you select an option such as "Thousands," that
does not force the system to use that divisor. If the smallest data value
being presented is not divisible by 1000 without the displayed value being
too small (for example, 20, which would display as ".02"), the
system ignores this setting. If the smallest data value being presented
is large enough that an even bigger value can be used instead (for example,
30000000, which is more easily and clearly divisible by one million),
then the system uses the larger divisor instead, in this case 1000000.
This dialog box provides three standard divisors and units, but you
can define your own. You can, for example, define the Y-axis data to render
as minutes for raw data provided as the number of seconds. In this case,
you would use 60 as the Divisor
and sMinutes as the String.
Note: If the
string you want is not already defined on the system, and you do not define
it using the String Properties dialog box,
whatever you use in the String field is
treated as a literal value. So, for example, if you try to use sMinutes
as the string but do not define it as a recognized string on the system,
the graph actually displays "sMinutes".