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Use Chart Properties to customize the Chart and create a more meaningful and visually appealing Presentation.

Click the Image description icon to edit the Presentation. Image description

Click the Image description icon to edit the desired Chart in the Presentation.

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Below are the Chart Properties available to customize the Chart. Image description

The Chart properties displayed depends on the Chart type.

Change Color

Use this option, to select the color for the Chart. Colors will enhance the data visualization and you can effectively communicate important information about your data.

Click the Image description icon to change the color.

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Different color palette that you use in the Chart depends on the nature of the data mapped to the color.

In-built - You can select the desired color or provide the hex code for the specific color.
Sequential - A single hue intensifies to represent fixed incremental changes. A color with high saturation signifies higher range of values. Used for numeric variables or inherently ordered values.
Diverging - Features two colors that grow in intensity, away from each other. Used for numeric variables that has a meaningful central value.
Qualitative - Each color is used to identify a specific type of data. You can use different hues to distinguish between data types. Used when the variable is categorical in nature.
Custom - You can customize the color palette as desired.

Custom Color Palette

  1. Click the Image description icon to create Custom Color Palette and click the Image description icon to select the Palette. Image description

  2. Provide an intuitive name for the Palette. Create the Palette by selecting the specific color or provide hex code for the specific color. Image description

  3. Click the Image description icon to add more colors to the palette and click SAVE button. Image description

Change Function

Functions can be applied to data plotted in the y-axis.

Click the Image description icon to change the function. Functions listed depend on the data type of the selected column.

  • You can write your own expression, select expression from the list.
  • You can choose not to apply any function, select None from the list.

If the data type is String then functions such as Count All, Count Unique are listed. Image description

If the data type is Integer then functions such as Count All, Count Unique, Max, Min, Average, Sum are listed. Image description

If the data type is DateTimestamp then functions such as Count All, Count Unique, Extract Date and Progressive Dates are listed. Image description

Component Properties

Use Component Properties to customize Component Legend, Limit Series, and Labels.

Split By

Click the Image description icon to split the Presentation data.

Select the field by which you want to split the data. For example, Product.

In the below example, the Data is Split based on Products and the Legend is displayed in the top right. Image description

Filter

You can filter the data displayed in the Chart by adding conditions.

For example, To display the data for NY, Japan, and India only.

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  2. Select the column to filter on and select the condition, for example, Branch, not in.
    Click the Image description icon and select the required column values.

  3. Click on Apply. Image description For example, when you select Branch not in London, Srilanka, Malaysia.
    The chart displays data only for India, Japan, and NY data. Image description You can use Filter to design user-based views for the Presentation. Filter on field CreatedBy. Use Filter condition CreatedBy is CurrentUser. When User logs in, he will only be able to see the records he created. Image description

Add Component

You can add additional components to the Chart for better understanding and better visual appeal.
Click the Image description icon to add components. Image description

For example, add Line and Arc components on the Vertical Bar Chart. The size of each bubble indicates the SUM(SalesAmount) for each Branch. Image description

Component List

Click the Image description icon to change any particular property of the component.

Select the required component from the list.

For example, Select either the Rectangle, Arc, or Line component accordingly. Image description

To change size of the bubble, select the Arc component. Image description

Click the Image description icon and then click the Image description icon from the Component Properties. Image description

Select the field for displaying the size variation. Image description

For example, Select SalesAmount as the size of the bubble to be displayed. The bubble size varies as per the SalesAmount in each Branch. Image description

To change the stroke width, select Line component.

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Click the Image description icon and drag Stroke Width to the desired value. Image description

Similarly, you can change the other properties of these components as per the requirement.

Visualisation Attributes

You can change the way components are arranged in the graph. For example, Stacked on top of each other, grouped together, or overlayed.

Click the Image description icon and select the type.

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Legend

You can change the position of legend display to either Right or Bottom.

Click the Image description icon to change the legend position. Image description

Legend position is set to Right by default.

Select Bottom to set legend at the bottom. Image description

Select None, if the legend is not required. Image description

General Properties

You can change the margin of the axis by using General Properties.

Click the Image description icon to change the margin. Image description

Customize Axis

Use Customize Axis to customize Axis Properties like Scale, Ticks, Label Offset, Stroke Color & Opacity, Font Color, Tick Text Angel, Custom Sort, and Sort Series.

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