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Format Platform Dialog Box Properties
You can use the Format Platform dialog box to format the platform of a chart. This topic describes the options in the dialog box.
This topic contains the following sections:
OK
Applies the settings and closes this dialog box.
Cancel
Cancels the settings and closes this dialog box.
Help
Displays the help document about this feature.
General Tab Properties
This tab shows some general information of the chart platform.
Name
Specifies the display name of the platform.
Show NLS Value
Select this option to show the translated name for the display name of the object in the Name text box if you have enabled the NLS feature and translated it.
If you select this option, it takes effect only when you have not modified the display name of the object.
Position
Displays the position mode of the component. If the component is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, you can modify its position mode.
- Absolute
Logi Report will decide the component's position by its X and Y property values. - Static
Logi Report will position the component at the default location in its container. It will also hide or disable the X, Y, and other position-related properties.
X
Specifies the X coordinate of the platform.
Y
Specifies the Y coordinate of the platform.
Width
Specifies the width of the platform.
Height
Specifies the height of the platform.
Fill Type
Specifies a type for filling the platform.
Color
Indicates the background color of the platform.
To change the color, select the color indicator to bring out the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color, 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 of the chart background color.
Show Legend
Specifies whether to show the legend.
Border Tab Properties
This tab shows information about borders of the chart platform.
Line Style
Specifies the line style of the platform borders.
Border Type
Specifies the type of the platform borders.
Color
Specifies the color of the platform borders.
Transparency
Specifies the color transparency of the platform borders.
Thickness
Specifies the thickness of the platform borders.
Data Tab Properties
You can use this tab to view and configure properties of the chart data.
Sort Category
Specifies the sorting order for the category field values.
Sort Series
Specifies the sorting order for the series field values.
Reverse Category
Specifies whether to reverse the category field value sequence.
Reverse Series
Specifies whether to reverse the series field value sequence.
Category Start Offset
Specifies the starting offset of the categories.
Category End Offset
Specifies the ending offset of the categories.
Series Start Offset
Specifies the starting offset of the series.
Series End Offset
Specifies the ending offset of the series.
Category Value Encoding
Specifies the encoding format for values on the category axis. Formats here usually refer to the following: BIG5, EUCJIS, GBK, UTF8, and XXXXX....
Series Value Encoding
Specifies the encoding format for values on the series axis. Formats here usually refer to the following: BIG5, EUCJIS, GBK, UTF8, and XXXXX....
Swap Data Group
Specifies to display values from different data fields by switching data between the category and series axes, the category and values axes.
Others Tab Properties
You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings.
Specifies whether to automatically scale the values that are of the Number data type when the values fall into the two ranges:
- When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Logi Report uses the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units 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, Logi Report uses scientific notation to scale the values.
TOC Anchor
Specifies whether to add the node that represents the platform to the TOC tree in the TOC Browser.
Suppress When No Records
Specifies whether to display the platform in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component.
Export to XLS
If true, Server will export the component when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog box).
Export to CSV
If true, Server will export the component when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.