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Format Activity Gauge Dialog Box Properties

You can use the Format Activity Gauge dialog box to format an activity gauge chart. This topic describes the properties in the dialog box.

This topic contains the following sections:

• Circular Graph Tab Properties
• Pointer Tab Properties
• Target Tab Properties
• Frame Tab Properties
• Range Color Tab Properties
• Hint Tab Properties

You see these elements on all the tabs:

OK

Select to apply any changes you made here and exit the dialog box.

Cancel

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Help

Select to view information about the dialog box.

Circular Graph Tab Properties

Specify the properties for circles in the activity gauge.

Circular

Specify the size of the circles.

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

Fill

Specify the fill color of the circles.

• Color
  Specify the color of the circles.
• Color List
  Select to open the Color List dialog box to specify the color of the circles.
• Transparency
  Specify the transparency for the color of the circles.
• Background
  Specify the background color of the circles.
  • Auto
    Select to use colors that are lighter than the circles automatically. You cannot specify the Background color when you select Auto.
• Use Range Color
  Select to use the color you defined for the ranges as the color of the circles. Then, Server disables the Color, Color List, and Transparency properties.

Value

Specify the values you want to display in the chart.

• Minimum Value
  Specify the minimum value in the chart.
• Maximum Value
  Specify the maximum value in the chart.

Pointer Tab Properties

Specify properties of the pointers in the activity gauge.

Show Pointer Value

Select to show the pointer values.

• Position
  Select the position relationship of the value and the pointers. If you select customized, the X and Y settings on the General tab of the Format Pointer Label dialog box will take effect.

Target Tab Properties

Specify properties of the target in the activity gauge.

Use Target Value

Select to use the target value for the activity gauge.

• Target Value
  Specify the value of the target.

Target Value

Specify the properties of the target value.

• Show Target Value
  Select to show the target value on the activity gauge.
  • Position
    Select the position of the target value relative to the circle. If you select customized, the X and Y settings on the General tab of the Format Target Label dialog box will take effect.

Frame Tab Properties

Specify the frame properties of the activity gauge chart.

Size

Specify the size properties of the frame.

• Frame Size
  Specify the size of the frame.

Fill

Specify the color and transparency of the frame.

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

Border

Specify the properties for the border of the frame.

• Line Style
  Select the line style of the border.
• Border Type
  Select the type of the border.
• Color
  Specify the color of the border. To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.
• Transparency
  Specify the transparency for the color of the border.
• Thickness
  Specify the thickness of the border, in inches.

Gauge Group Name

Specify the properties for the gauge group name.

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

Range Color Tab Properties

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

Add button

Select to add a new color range.

Remove button

Select to remove the selected color range.

Range table

• Minimum
  Specify the minimum value of a range.

• Maximum
  Specify the maximum value of a range.

• Color
  Select the color cell to open the Select Color dialog box, and specify a new color.

• Name
  Specify the name of a range.

Others

Specify the properties for values that do not fall into any of the ranges you define in the range table.

• Name
  Specify the name for the values.
• Color
  Specify the color for the values. To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

Hint Tab Properties

Specify the properties of the data marker hint.

Show Category and Series

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

Auto Scale in Number

Select true if you want 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.

The default value auto means that the setting follows that of the chart platform.

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