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Format Activity Gauge

The Format Activity Gauge dialog box is used to format an activity gauge chart.

There are the following tabs in this dialog box: Circular Graph, Pointer, Target, Frame, Range Color and Hint.

OK

Applies the changes and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Does not retain any changes and closes the dialog box.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

Circular Graph

Specifies the properties for circles in the activity gauge.

Circular

Specifies the size of the circles.

• Hole Size
  Specifies the relative size of a circle in a percentage of total circle size.
• Circular Gap
  Specifies the distance between the circles.
• Start Style
  Specifies the style for the start graph of the circles.
• End Style
  Specifies the style for the end graph of the circles.
• Start Mark
  Specifies the mark for the start graph of the circles.
• Stop Mark
  Specifies the mark for the stop graph of the circles.

Fill

Specifies the color of the circles.

• Color
  Specifies the color of the circles.
• Color List
  Opens the Color List dialog box for you to specify the color of the circles.
• Transparency
  Specifies the transparency for color of the circles.
• Background
  Specifies the background color of the circles.
  • Auto
    Specifies to use colors that are lighter than the circles automatically. The Background option is disabled when Auto is selected.
• Use Range Color
  Specifies whether to use the color you defined for the ranges as the color of the circles. If the option is selected, the Color, Color List and Transparency options will be disabled.

Value

Specifies the values to be displayed in the chart.

• Minimum Value
  Specifies the minimum value to be displayed in the chart.
• Maximum Value
  Specifies the maximum value to be displayed in the chart.

Pointer

Specifies properties of the pointers in the activity gauge.

Show Pointer Value

Specifies whether to show the pointer values.

• Position
  Specifies the position relationship of the value and the pointers. Select the position from the drop-down list. If customized is selected, the X and Y settings in the General tab of the Format Pointer Label dialog box will take effect.

Target

Specifies properties of the target in the activity gauge.

Use Target Value

Specifies whether to use the target value for the activity gauge.

• Target Value
  Specifies the value of the target.

Target Value

Specifies properties of the target value.

• Show Target Value
  Specifies whether to show the target value on the activity gauge.
  • Position
    Specifies the position of the target value relative to the circle. Select the position from the drop-down list. If customized is selected, the X and Y settings in the General tab of the Format Target Label dialog box will take effect.

Frame

Specifies properties for the frame of the activity gauge chart.

Size

Specifies the size properties of the frame.

• Frame Size
  Specifies the size of the frame.

Fill

Specifies the color and transparency of the frame.

• Fill
  Specifies the color to fill the frame.
• Transparency
  Specifies the transparency of the color to fill the frame.

Border

Specifies the properties for border of the frame.

• Line Style
  Specifies the line style to apply to the border.
• Border Type
  Specifies the type of the border.
• Color
  Specifies the color of the border. To change the color, select the color indicator to specify a new color in the Select Color dialog box, or type a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, type Transparent in the text box.
• Transparency
  Specifies the transparency for color of the border.
• Thickness
  Specifies the thickness of the border, in inches.

Gauge Group Name

Specifies properties for the gauge group name.

• Show Gauge Group Name
  Specifies whether to show names for the circles in the activity gauge which are values of the field on its category axis. If the activity gauge contains no category field, the group name shows Report by default.
  • Position
    Specifies the position of the names relative to the circles. Select the position from the drop-down list. If customized is selected, the X and Y settings in the General tab of the Format Gauge Label dialog box will take effect.

Range Color

Specifies different colors to fill the circles in the activity gauge in different ranges.

Adds a new color range.

Removes the selected color range.

Minimum

Specifies the minimum value of the range.

Maximum

Specifies the maximum value of the range.

Color

Specifies the color schema of the range. Select in the color cell to specify a new color in the Select Color dialog box.

Name

Displays the name of the range.

Others

Specifies the properties for values that do not fall into any of the ranges you define.

• Name
  Specifies the name for the values.
• Color
  Specifies the color for the values. To change the color, select the color indicator to specify a new color in the Select Color dialog box, or type a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, type Transparent in the text box.

Hint

Specifies properties of the data marker hint.

Show Category and Series

Specifies whether to include the category and series values in the data marker hint.

Auto Scale in Number

Specifies whether to automatically scale the values displayed in the data marker hint that are of the Number data type when the values fall into the two ranges:

• When 1000 <= value < 10^15, the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units are used to scale the values: K (10^3), M (10^6), G (10^9), and T (10^12).
• When 0 < value < 0.001 or value >= 10^15, scientific notation is used to scale the values.

By default it is set to auto which means that the setting follows that of the chart platform.

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