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Format Rectangle Dialog Box
You can use the Format Rectangle dialog box to format the rectangles of the specified group in a heat map. This topic describes the options in the dialog box.
Designer displays the Format Rectangle dialog box when you do either of the following:
- When there is only one group in the heat map, right-click the heat map and select Format Rectangle from the shortcut menu.
- When there are two or more groups in the heat map, right-click the heat map and select a desired group field from the Format Rectangle submenu.
The dialog box contains the following tabs (Designer displays the Behaviors tab only when the chart is in a library component):
You see these buttons in all the tabs:
OK
Select to apply all changes and close the dialog box.
Cancel
Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.
Apply
Select to apply all changes and leave the dialog box open.
Help
Select to view information about the dialog box.
Fill Tab
Use this tab to specify the color pattern to fill the rectangles of the heat map.
Use Single Color
Select to apply single color pattern to the rectangles. Designer displays different options for setting the color pattern according to how the heat map is colored by.
- You see the following options if the heat map is colored by a summary:
- Start color
Specify the start color which Designer maps to the minimum value of the summary. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box. - End color
Specify the end color which Designer maps to the maximum value of the summary. - Reversed
Select to reverse the start color and end color on the gradient color bar. - Color When Zero
Select to map the zero value to the specified color. If you do not select the option, the gradient color changes from the start color to the end color directly; otherwise, the gradient color changes from the start color to the zero value color, and then from the zero value color to the end color. - Color When Null
Specify the color for the null value.
- Start color
- You see the following options if the heat map is colored by one of the following cases: no field, 1 to n groups, 1 to n groups and 1 summary:
- Color
Specify the color for the rectangles. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box. - Transparency
Specify the transparency of the color. - Self Settings
Select to apply the color pattern to the rectangles themselves only. If you do not select the option, Designer synchronizes the color settings you define here to the Pattern List property on the chart object in the Report Inspector, which the data markers of other subtypes can also apply if the chart is a combo chart.t. - Vary Colors by Color List
Select to apply different colors to the rectangles. - Color List
Select to open the Color List dialog box to modify the color pattern for each rectangle.
- Color
Use Single Color with condition
Select to make each rectangle apply its own single color pattern based on the defined conditions. You can select the Advanced or Normal button to switch between the two editing modes to edit the conditions.
- Normal
- Select Field
The drop-down list contains all the available fields to which you can apply the conditional fill. Select the field on which you want to define the conditions. 
Add button
Select to add a new condition.
Remove button
Select to delete the specified user-defined condition.- Value
Designer displays the column when you select a group-by field of the chart, or a field the values of which are not numbers from the Select Field drop-down list. It shows the values that you specify for each condition. - Start Value
Designer displays the column when you select a value field of the chart, or a field containing numeric values from the Select Field drop-down list. It shows the start values that you specify for each condition. - End Value
Designer displays the column when you select a value field of the chart, or a field containing numeric values from the Select Field drop-down list. It shows the end values that you specify for each condition. - Color
The column shows the colors that you specify to apply to the values which meet the conditions. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box. - Transparency
The column shows the transparency of the colors that you specify for the conditions. - Label
Select to modify the expression of the specified condition, which Designer displays as its legend entry label. - Value
Designer displays the option after you select a value field of the chart, or a field containing numeric values from the Select Field drop-down list. Select it if you want to display data in the condition expression as value. - Percent
Designer does not support the option when you edit conditions for a heat map.
- Select Field
- Advanced
Select to open the Edit Conditions dialog box to create or edit a condition.- Condition
The column shows the default condition "Other" and the expressions of the condition that you define in the Edit Condition dialog box. - Color
The column shows the color that you specify for the default "Other" condition and the color that you specify to apply to the values which meet the condition you define in the Edit Condition dialog box. To edit the color of the default "Other" condition, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box. - Transparency
The column shows the transparency of the color that you specify for the default "Other" condition and the transparency of the color that you specify for the values which meet the condition you define in the Edit Condition dialog box. - Label
Select to modify the expression of the specified condition, which Designer displays as its legend entry label.
Sample
The box displays a preview sample of your selection.
Separator Tab
Use this tab to specify the line properties of the separator dividing the rectangles in the heat map.
Color
Specify the color of the separator. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value (for example, 0xff0000) of a color in the text box.
Transparency
Specify the transparency for the color of the separator.
Line Style
Select the line style of the separator.
Thickness
Specify the thickness of the separator.
Sample
The box displays a preview sample of your selection.
Behaviors Tab
Designer displays the Behaviors tab only when the heat map is in a library component. You can use it to specify web behaviors to the rectangles of the heat map.
Add button
Select to add a new web behavior line.
Remove button
Select to delete the specified web behavior.
Up button
Select to move the specified web behavior higher in the list. At runtime, when an event bound with more than one action happens, JDashboard triggers the upper action first.
Down button
Select to move the specified web behavior lower in the list.
Events
The column shows the events that you select to trigger the web actions.
Actions
The column shows the actions that you specify for the events to trigger. To bind a web action to an event, select the ellipsis button 
in the action cell and Designer displays the Web Action List dialog box for you to specify the web action.