Chart Properties

Applies a 3D effect to the Chart as a whole. (Not available for all Chart styles.)

Hides all axes and legends. For a line chart, the ‘Sparkline’ also adds a point to the end of the line, and for a bar chart, displays negative values in red.

Allow end users to access the Chart Editor and edit the chart.

Enables the Date Comparison feature for the Chart. See Compare Data by Date for more details.

Allows the user to drill up and down in date or dimension fields. See Drill Down into Data for more information.

Available when ‘Group all others together’ is enabled for Top/Bottom ranking in the ‘Edit Dimension’ panel of the Chart Editor. (See Filter Top or Bottom Groups for information about dimension ranking). When enabled, this property places the ‘Others’ group after all of the ranked groups, regardless of the specified dimension sorting.

When enabled, specifies that the top-N filter for a dimension (see Filter Top or Bottom Groups) should be relative to the parent dimension in a dimension hierarchy. (See Hierarchy Tab for explicit hierarchy.)

The fill color of the plot area on the Chart.

For Circle Packing Chart, sets the border color for the circles.

The color of the cumulative total line when a field is bound in the ‘Color’ region. If there is no ‘Color’ binding, the Pareto line is the same color as the bars.

Sets transparency for the Chart elements. If disabled, the default transparency for the particular chart type is used.

Adds alternating colored bands to a specified categorical or timescale axis. Select the desired band color from the color picker. The band ‘Size’ setting is an integer indicating the number of category groups (for a categorical axis) or the number of date groups (for a timescale axis) to be spanned by each band.

Displays a pie chart with small gaps between the slices.

A value in the range [0.1,1] that determines the proportion of the plot area occupied by the pie. Similarly-sized Pie charts with the same ‘Pie Ratio’ setting will display pies having the same radius, which allows you to enforce consistency across multiple charts.

Displays the aggregate measure values on the chart. If the chart also possesses a ‘Text’ binding, then the values displayed by ‘Show Values’ and those displayed by the ‘Text’ binding appear on different lines. Use a ‘Text’ format to individually format the values. For example, if the top value represents a date and the bottom value represents a number, you can apply the following text format, using \n to separate lines:

Date: {0,date,yyyy}\nAmount: {1,number,$#}

For Network, Circular Network, and Tree chart types, specifies that node ‘Color’ and ‘Size’ determined by ‘Target’ value should also be applied to source nodes that are not also target nodes.

Displays horizontal and vertical reference lines when the user moves the mouse over a data point.

Displays a single aggregate value for each primary (X-axis) grouping, rather than for each individual subseries grouping.

Automatically extend the chart boundaries to display chart elements (including target lines) that exceed the specified axis maximum.

For Circle Packing Chart and Treemap Chart, this includes the parent category names in the circle labels.

For Word Cloud Charts only, multiplies the specified ‘Size’ setting to increase the maximum font size of words in the cloud.

For a Line and Radar chart, adds markers at the locations of the individual data points.

For Point-type charts, displays line segments connecting the points on the chart. To display a fitted line, use the ‘Trend Line’ option instead. (See Line Tab.)

For Point-type charts with a dimension set in the Color, Shape, Size, or Text regions, connects the points with a single line rather than using separate lines for the different dimension values. Requires ‘Show Lines’ to be enabled.

For Line and Radar charts, and for Point charts with ‘Show Lines’ enabled, linearly interpolates missing data using a dashed line.

When the ‘As time series’ option is set for a dimension, the ‘Fill Time-Series Gaps’ option specifies how missing data should be represented on the chart. (See Basic Charting Steps for information on how to edit a dimension.) When the option is disabled, plotted lines simply ignore the missing data and connect adjacent points. When the option is enabled, you can choose to represent gaps with either ‘Null’, which leaves an empty space at the location, or with ‘Zero’, which inserts a numerical value of 0 at the location.

Stacks multiple chart measures together. This may be desirable when the individual measures are fractions of some total. (Example: Component fees on a shipment, such as documentation, packaging, handling, etc.) This option is available only when there are multiple measures on the chart, the ‘Stack’ option is enabled from the ‘Select Chart Style’ button , and single-graph mode has been activated from the ‘Switch to Single Graph’ button .

For a Map Chart, sets the color for map regions that are not assigned a color based on data.

For a Map Chart, when a column is bound to the ‘Color’ field of the Visual panel in the Chart Editor, this setting ensures that the color is always used to fill the map regions. Otherwise, if another column is simultaneously bound to the ‘Shape’, ‘Size’, or ‘Text’ fields of the Visual panel, the color generated for the ‘Color’ binding will be applied to the plotted points rather than to the map regions.

Specifies the number of contours used to represent each region in a Scatter Contour or Contour Map Chart. A larger number produces a smoother transition of colors.

Specifies the area over which to calculate density for a Scatter Contour or Contour Map Chart. A larger number produces contours that span larger areas.

Specifies the transparency of the contour edge for a Scatter Contour or Contour Map Chart. The transparency of the contour center is determined by the Chart ‘Alpha’ property. A higher value makes the edges more visible.

Specifies the size of the cells that make up the grid on which contour weights are computed for a Scatter Contour or Contour Map Chart. Higher values specify larger cells, and hence broader clusters. Lower values specify smaller cells, and hence smaller clusters.

For Bar Chart only, sets the radius for rounding the bar corners. The range is 0.0 (no rounding) to 0.5 (maximum rounding). The default is 0.3.

For Bar Chart type only, specifies (when enabled) that the ‘Bar Corner Radius’ should be applied to all four corners of the bar. When disabled (default), only the corners furthest from the axis are rounded.

Specify marker lines, bands, or statistical regions to be placed in the plot area. See Trend and Compare Data for more information.

The line style and color of the X-axis grid.

The line style and color of the Y-axis grid.

The style and color for a set of perpendicular line segments which divide the plot area into quadrants.

The style and color for a line segment which originates in the lower-left corner of the plot area and terminates in the upper-right corner of the plot area.

For a facet-type chart (i.e., a chart with both a measure and dimension on the same axis or with multiple dimensions on the same axis), displays a solid line around the entire plot area and displays a solid axis line to separate the dimension and measure axis labels. See Hybrid Table Chart for an example of this kind of Chart.

Specifies whether an interpolated trend line is displayed, and the method by which the trend line should be fit to the data (linear, quadratic, etc.). The ‘Trend Line Style’ menu and color chip specify the trend line style and color. The ‘Default’ option indicates that the style should match the corresponding measure line. If there are multiple measures or if there is a dimension associated with the chart’s ‘Color’ binding, select the ‘One Per Color’ option to create an independent trend line for each color group. (The trend line colors are matched to the corresponding data colors unless you explicitly specify a trend line color.)

Specifies the number of axis units that the trend line should extend beyond the final data point. Projection requires that axis values be a linear and complete series of either numbers or dates.