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Convert to Chart Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Convert to Chart dialog box to convert a data component to the chart type. The dialog box varies with different chart types: common chart types, organization chart, and heat map.

Server displays the dialog box when you focus on a table, crosstab, or chart and then select a chart type on the visualization toolbar but the data fields in the current component are not enough for the target chart type.

OK

Select OK to convert to the specified chart type.

Cancel

Select Cancel to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Select to view information about the Convert to Chart dialog box.

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

For Common Chart Types

Chart Title

Specifies the title of the chart. The title is a special label bound with the chart. Though it can be positioned freely in a report, once you remove the chart from the report, the title will be removed too.

Specifies the font properties of the chart title.

After you select the button, Server displays the following dialog box for you to edit the font properties:

• Font
  Specifies the font face of the title.
• Font Style
  Specifies the font style of the title. It can be one of the following: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specifies the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specifies the position of the title to be left, right, center, or justify.
• Font Color
  Specifies the font color of the title.
• Background Color
  Specifies the background color of the title.

  To specify a color, select the color image to select a color from the color palette, or select More Colors in the color palette to select a color using the Color Picker dialog box.

• OK
  Accepts the font settings and closes the dialog box.
• Cancel
  Cancels editing the font properties and closes the dialog box.

Data Source

Specifies the business view in the current catalog on which the chart will be built.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter you want to apply to the selected business view.

Resources

Displays the resources that can be added to the chart.

Show All Fields/Show Used Fields

Specifies to show all the business view elements or only the ones used in the current data component in the Resources box. Not available when you select another business view to convert to chart with.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

The order can be one of the following:

• Predefined Order
  Select if you want to sort the view elements in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer.
• Resource Types
  Select if you want to sort the view elements by resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Select if you want to sort the view elements in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the elements that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the elements in each category alphabetically.

Launches the search bar to search for view elements.

See the following options in the search bar:

• Text box
  Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text.
• X
  Select to close the search bar or clear the typed text.
• 
  Select the button and Server displays more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select if you want to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• 
  When you selected Highlight All, you can use this button to go to the previous matched text.
• 
  When you selected Highlight All, you can use this button to go to the next matched text.

Adds the selected resource to be displayed in the chart.

Value box

The actual name of the box varies with different chart types, for example, it is Bar Length for a clustered bar chart. The box lists the values you want to show in the chart. For a real time chart, the values you add must be of Numeric type and cannot be aggregation objects.

• Primary Axis
  Adds a chart type to the primary axis.
• Secondary Axis
  Adds a chart type to the secondary axis. Active only when the option Secondary Axis is selected. Not available to gauge chart.
• X-Axis
  Lists the value you want to show on the X axis of the bubble chart.
• Y-Axis
  Lists the value you want to show on the Y axis of the bubble chart.
• Size
  Lists the value you want to show as the bubble size.

Adds a combo chart to the Primary Axis or Secondary Axis. Not available to gauge chart.

Opens the Edit Additional Value dialog box to edit the selected additional value.

Moves the selected view element one level up.

Moves the selected view element one level down.

Adds a new pair of Y Axis and Radius for the bubble chart.

Secondary Axis

Specifies whether to show the secondary axis in the chart. Not available to gauge chart.

Category box

The actual name of the box varies with different chart types, for example, it is X-Axis for a clustered bar chart. The box lists the group object that will be displayed on the category axis of the chart.

For a real time chart, if no object is specified on the category axis, Use System Refresh Time will be automatically displayed in the Category text box, namely, the time at which the chart refreshes itself will be used as the category value.

Series box

The actual name of the box varies with different chart types, for example, it is Clustering for a clustered bar chart. The box lists the group object that will be displayed on the series axis of the chart. Not available to real time chart.

Opens the Category Options dialog box or Series Options dialog box to define the sort order of the category or series values and specify the number of the category or series values that will be displayed in the chart.

Motion Bar for Playable Chart

Lists the group object you want to use as the motion field. A motion field can only be of Integer, Date or Time data type. Available to single bar, bench and bubble chart types only.

• Special Function
  Available only when the motion field is of Date data type. Select it to define the special function.
  • Field
    Displays on which field the special function will be applied.
  • Function
    Specifies the special function to the field.
  • OK
    Accepts the special function settings and leaves the dialog box.
  • Cancel
    Cancels the special function settings and leaves the dialog box.

Real Time

Specifies to run the chart in real time mode, which means it will be updated automatically using real time data. Available to single bar, bench, line, and area chart types only.

• Use System Time for Category
  Specifies to use the time at which the chart refreshes itself as the category value.
• Refresh Interval
  Specifies the time interval at which the chart will get data and refresh itself automatically.
• Show Most Recent N Points
  Specifies the number of records that will be kept for the real time data in the chart.
• Incremental Fetch
  Opens the Unique Key dialog box to configure a unique key for the real time chart.

Removes the selected resource.

For Organization Chart

Chart Title

Specifies the title of the chart. The title is a special label bound with the chart. Though it can be positioned freely in a report, once you remove the chart from the report, the title will be removed too.

Specifies the font properties of the chart title.

Data Source

Specifies the business view in the current catalog on which the chart will be built.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter you want to apply to the selected business view.

Resources

Displays the resources that can be added to the chart.

Show All Fields/Show Used Fields

Specifies to show all the business view elements or only the ones used in the current data component in the Resources box. Not available when you select another business view to convert to chart with.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

Launches the search bar to search for view elements.

Value box

• Primary Axis
  Select Org from the chart type drop-down menu.
• Node
  Adds a field from the Resources box which identifies the entity by selecting both the field and Node and then selecting .
• Parent
  Adds a field from the Resources box which shows the "reporting to" relationship among the entity members, that is, which child node field member reports to or belongs to which child node field member, by selecting both the field and Parent and then selecting .
• 
  Removes the selected child node or parent field.

Properties

The properties box presents a node model of the org chart. Data fields, labels and images can be inserted into the node as the information about the entity in the org chart, using . By default, all added objects are placed at the left top of the node, you need to adjust their positions and sizes in the node. You can also resize the node.

To remove an object from the node, select it and then select .

For Heat Map

Chart Title

Specifies the title of the chart. The title is a special label bound with the chart. Though it can be positioned freely in a report, once you remove the chart from the report, the title will be removed too.

Specifies the font properties of the chart title.

Data Source

Displays the business view that has been used in the chart.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter you want to apply to the selected business view.

Resources

Displays the resources that can be added to the chart.

Show All Fields/Show Used Fields

Specifies to show all the business view elements or only the ones used in the current data component in the Resources box. Not available when you select another business view to convert to chart with.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

Launches the search bar to search for view elements.

Adds the selected field into the Area or Property box.

Removes the selected field from the Area or Property box.

Chart type drop-down list

Displays Heat Map as the selected chart type.

Area

Lists the fields used to group the data to different areas. There should be at least one group. When there are multiple groups, their levels are defined by their positions from top down. The group at the top is of the highest level and the bottom the lowest.

• Color by
  Specifies whether to color by a group. 0-n groups can be used as the color-by fields.
• Label by
  Specifies whether to show the group name in the innermost rectangle.
• 
  Moves the selected group field one level up.
• 
  Moves the selected group field one level down.
• 
  Opens the Group Options dialog box to define the sort order of the group values and specify the number of the group values that will be displayed in the chart.
• 
  Removes the selected group field.

Property

Lists the summary fields used as size-by/color-by or displayed in the innermost rectangle.

• Size by
  Specifies to size by one summary or none.
• Color by
  Specifies to color by one summary or none.
• Label by
  Specifies whether to show a summary in the innermost rectangle.

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