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Dialog Reference | PopChart Builder User Guide 4.0.5 |
Note: This dialog is not applicable to and therefore unavailable for Pie graphs.
This dialog controls scale properties along the value scale of certain graphs. You will see this dialog when you change the properties for the following scales:
| Graph | Scale(s) |
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| Vertical Bar, Line, Area, Stock | Left Scale Properties or Right Scale Properties (depending on the position of the scale). |
| Horizontal Bar | Bottom Scale Properties. |
| Line Bar Combo, Pareto | Line Scale Properties and Bar Scale Properties (Line Bar graphs contain both a left and right scale—see "Line Bar Combo Graphs" in Chapter 13 of the PopChart Server Reference manual). |
| X-Y Plot | Left Scale Properties or Right Scale Properties (depending on the position of the scale), and Bottom Scale Properties (both scales are considered to be value scales). |
| Dual Y Combo | Left Scale Properties and Right Scale Properties. |
| Radar | Value Scale and Category Scale. |
These dialogs can be accessed by selecting a graph and then selecting the appropriately named dialog under the Properties menu. If you are looking to modify the other scale(s) on a graph, refer to "Bottom Scale Properties" in Chapter A.
This pane controls the position of the scale as well as the range of its values.
You can place the scale in one of the following positions (not applicable for Horizontal Bar graphs or the bottom scale of X-Y Plot graphs):
The scale is to the left of the graph. In radar graphs, this means that the scale labels will be on the left of the scale.
The scale is to the right of the graph. In radar graphs, this means that the scale labels will be on the right of the scale.
This option will appear on the line scale dialog for Line Bar Combo graphs only. It sets the line scale to the left of the graph and the bar scale is to the right of it.
This option will appear on the line scale dialog for Line Bar Combo graphs only. It sets the bar scale to the left of the graph and the line scale is to the right of it.
This option is available for bar scale of Line Bar Combo graphs only. If selected, the bar scale will use the same scale values as the line scale.
This option is available for bar scale of Line Bar Combo graphs only when Sync Line and Bar Scales is selected. If selected, the bar scale will not be displayed.
There are two available settings for this option: Manually and Automatically. Depending on your selection, you will have different options available at the bottom of this dialog pane.
This setting allows you to manually determine the range of the scale. These settings will be used regardless of the data values, meaning some bars, lines, and areas may be clipped.
The lowest data value to be shown along the y-axis.
The highest data value to be shown along the y-axis.
The number of major tick marks in the graph.
The number of minor tick marks that occur between each major tick mark.
This setting tells PopChart Builder to automatically scale the graph using the following guidelines:
The maximum number of major tick marks that will appear in the graph. The actual number of increments used may be less than this value.
The number of small tick marks that should appear between each major tick.
The amount of space between the maximum data value and the top of the scale as a percentage of the maximum data value.
If checked, the bottom of the scale will always be set to 0, regardless of the data values.
The amount of space between the minimum data value and the bottom of the scale as a percentage of the maximum data value.
Checking this box sets the scale type to logarithmic.
This pane allows you to control the appearance of tick marks in the currently selected graph
If checked, a major tick mark will delimit each major increment. You can set the following options for this mark:
You can position major tick marks in the following locations:
The mark will appear outside of the graph's grid area.
The mark will appear inside of the graph's grid area.
The mark will appear both outside and inside of the graph area so that it looks like a cross.
The mark can appear in one of three sizes: Small, Medium, or Large.
The color button will launch a Color Properties dialog, where you can change the color used for major tick marks. For more information about this dialog, refer to "Color Properties" in Chapter A.
If checked, a minor tick mark will delimit each minor increment. You can set the following options for this mark:
You can position minor tick marks in the following locations:
The mark will appear outside of the graph's grid area.
The mark will appear inside of the graph's grid area.
The mark will appear both outside and inside of the graph area so that it looks like a cross.
The mark can appear in one of three sizes: Small, Medium, or Large. Note that minor tick mark sizes are relatively smaller than major tick mark sizes: a minor tick mark will appear smaller than a major tick marks of the same size.
The color button will launch a Color Properties dialog, where you can change the color used for minor tick marks. For more information about this dialog, refer to "Color Properties" in Chapter A.
This dialog pane allows you to change the settings for scale labels.
If checked, scale labels will appear to the left (or right, if the scale is on the right) of each major tick mark.
These settings affect the numerical format of the graph's scale labels.
A label can be displayed in one of several different formats:
Only the number itself will be shown.
The number will be shown with the PopChart's currency symbol. For example, 5 might be displayed as $5. See also: "Currency Symbol."
A percentage sign % will follow the number.
If the data value is negative, the graph will use this setting to determine how to display it. It can be displayed either as a minus sign -, in parenthesis ( ), or as an absolute value (no negative value indicator).
If this is checked, the number will always be shown as a decimal, regardless of whether it was entered into the Data Editor as such. It will be shown to as many places as indicated in the Decimal Places property.
The number of decimal places to show. Data values that have more decimal places will be rounded to the nearest decimal at this point.
Specifies whether or not to show a thousands separator. For example, if a comma is used as the thousands separator (see "Thousands"), one million will be shown as 1,000,000 when this box is checked. Otherwise, one million would be shown as 1000000.
These settings control how the scale labels will be abbreviated.
PopChart will automatically abbreviate the scale labels. It will usually abbreviate it so that there are no more than three digits in the scale label. For example, 1,000 becomes 1k, while 56,500,000 becomes 56.5M.
You decide how the labels should be abbreviated.
This setting changes the how the numbers will be displayed. It determines what number the scale labels will be relative to. If set to Unchanged, they will be displayed normally. However, if set to Thousands, 560 would be displayed as .56, since it is 56/100 of one thousand. Likewise, 4,125,375 would appear as 4.125 if it were displayed as Millions. If set to Percentage, .08 would appear as 8, or as 8% if Display Label As is also set to Percentage. Other options include Billions and Trillions.
If this is checked, all numbers will be followed by an abbreviation to indicate what the numbers are relative to. For example, 10 displayed as Thousands with an abbreviation might be .01k. When you are displaying a value as a Percentage and check this box, the number will always be followed by a percentage % sign, regardless of what Display Label As is set to For information on setting the abbreviation, refer to "Abbreviation Characters" in Chapter A.
When checked, the scale labels will be rotated by the value shown in the text box to the right.
Specifies font characteristics for the left or right scale. For more information, refer to "Font Properties".
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