Depending on the chart type (for example, bar chart), you can format the axes to customize the display of the information. This includes items such as labels, titles, and font formatting. For example, you can choose to hide the labels in your chart or format the font to add clarity to your chart. You can easily customize the X and Y axis with options that suit your needs.
In a chart, the legend identifies values according to the color-coded data values that display. The legend typically displays on the right side of the chart, but you can change the location using the formatting options available for legends. You can format a legend in any of the following ways:
You can use headers and footers to add key information, such as purpose of the chart and the audience. For example, if you have gross profit for different product categories, you can add a header to highlight this information in your chart.
You can add multiple lines of information into the heading and footing areas in a chart. This accommodates thorough explanations and additional information while offering the most readable presentation.
You can use the font formatter in WebFOCUS Designer to control how fonts are displayed in your chart. This is a quick way to apply styling, colors, or a specific font type for any text within your chart. The font formatter displays in different areas of the Style tab (for example, Legend, Axis, Series, and Matrix options). Depending on the chart type and what you want to format, you can use these options to enhance the fonts in your charts. The font formatter is shown in the following image.
Welcome to this video on formatting maps in WebFOCUS Designer. You can create maps to identify patterns in your data. Data is converted into values that can be displayed on a map, making it easy for you to visualize scenarios, illustrate hot spots, and identify potential problem areas.
There are two types of maps: Choropleth and Proportional Symbol (Bubble). Choropleth maps are useful for visualizing location-based data, trends, and distributions across a geographic area. Bubble maps focus on specific areas. The size of the bubble varies depending on the underlying data.
Welcome to this video on Binning, where you can group numeric data values to plot the frequency distribution of values in your data. Bins are a standard data analysis technique. With bins, you group number values in continuous increments that you control. This lets you summarize large amounts of data across measures, and lets you analyze trends and quickly identify outliers.
When you create a chart, you are not restricted to the fields that exist in your data source. You can create calculations from the data that exists to automate summations and other mathematical tasks related to your data fields. You can specify operators, fields, variables, and functions when creating a calculation. A calculation takes up no storage space in the data source, and is created only when needed.
You can create the following types of calculations:
Filters allow you to limit the data that displays in your content to show only the information that is important or relevant to you. When you create a filter for a chart in WebFOCUS Designer, it creates a dynamic parameter filter. This means that when the chart is run, you can select the value or values to display at run time.
To create a filter, drag the field that you want to select filter values for to the Filter toolbar, or right-click the field and click Add to filter toolbar. You can filter for any field in your data, regardless of whether or not it is used in your chart.
A thumbnail is an image that appears in the WebFOCUS Home Page and Designer Resource Selector to help you quickly recognize the file you want to use. This thumbnail is available in the Grid view of the WebFOCUS Home Page and in the Resource selector, when you create a page in WebFOCUS Designer.
Creating the thumbnail is easy. When you’ve created a chart or opened an existing chart, simply click the Thumbnail button on the Designer Toolbar. A preview appears to show you what the thumbnail will look like. If you like the thumbnail, click OK.
Hello, and welcome to this video on Formatting Charts in WebFOCUS Designer.
The formatting options that are available to you let you customize the display of your data across a number of areas.
Most of your formatting can be done on the Format tab, while there are options for Headers and Footers, too. This video will cover the details of the formatting options that are available to you.
