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Format Value (Y) Axis Dialog Box

You can use the Format Value (Y) Axis dialog box to format the value axis (the Y axis) of a chart. This topic describes the options in the dialog box.

Designer displays the Format Value (Y) Axis dialog box when you right-click any chart element and navigate to Format Axes > Format Value (Y) Axis on the shortcut menu, or double-click the value axis of a chart.

This dialog box contains the following tabs:

Designer displays these buttons in all the tabs:

OK

Select to apply your settings 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.

Axis Tab

Use this tab to specify general properties of the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Axis

Option

You can specify options of the axis in this box.

  • Minimum Value
    Specify the minimum value to display on the axis.
  • Maximum Value
    Specify the maximum value to display on the axis.
  • Increment
    Specify the distance between two adjacent values on the axis.
  • Number of Tick Marks
    Specify how many tick marks to display on the axis.
  • Show Gridlines
    Select to show gridlines on the axis.
  • Show Percent
    Select to show the value labels on the axis in percent. Designer applies this option only when the chart is a radar or bullet chart, or a bar, bench, line, or area chart that is not of the 100% Stacked type.

Line

You can specify line properties of the axis in this box.

  • Color
    Specify the color of the axis line. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
  • Style
    Select the line style of the axis.
  • Transparency
    Specify the transparency of the axis line.
  • Thickness
    Specify the thickness of the axis line, in pixels.

Label

You can specify options for the labels on the axis in this box.

  • Label Axis Gap
    Specify the distance between the labels and the axis, in pixels.
  • Best Effect
    Select to adjust the labels automatically to place them at the best position on the axis. When you select this option, Designer hides some labels if they overlap.

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Tick Mark Tab

Designer displays the following subtabs in the Tick Mark tab:

Major Tick Mark Subtab

Use this subtab to specify properties of the major tick marks on the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Major Tick Mark

Type

You can specify the type of the major tick marks on the axis in this box.

  • None
    Select if you do not want to display major tick marks on the axis. It is meaningless to specify all the other major tick mark properties if you select this type.
  • Inside
    Select to display the major tick marks inside the axis.
  • Outside
    Select to display the major tick marks outside the axis.
  • Cross
    Select to display the major tick marks across the axis.

Line

You can specify line properties of the major tick marks on the axis in this box.

  • Correlate with Axis
    Select to apply the line properties that you define for the axis in the Axis tab to the major tick marks. When you clear this option, you can specify line properties of the major tick marks separately using the following options:
    • Color
      Specify the color of the major tick marks. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
    • Style
      Select the line style of the major tick marks.
    • Transparency
      Specify the transparency of the major tick marks.
    • Thickness
      Specify the thickness of the major tick marks, in pixels.
  • Tick Mark Length
    Specify the length of the major tick marks, in pixels.

Option

You can specify options of the major tick mark labels on the axis in this box.

  • Show Major Tick Mark Labels
    Select to display major tick mark labels on the axis. Designer enables the other options in the Options box when you select this option.
  • Label Every N Major Tick Marks
    Specify the frequency at which to label the major tick marks.
  • Show Axis Label Tips
    Select to display the complete label text when you point to a major tick mark label on the axis.
  • Number of Major Labels
    Specify how many major tick mark labels you want to display on the axis.
    • Auto
      Select to display all the major tick mark labels.
    • Fixed
      Select and specify the number of the major tick mark labels you want to display.

Minor Tick Mark Subtab

Use this subtab to specify properties of the minor tick marks on the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Minor Tick Mark

Type

You can specify the type of the minor tick marks on the axis in this box.

  • None
    Select if you do not want to display minor tick marks on the axis. It is meaningless to specify all the other minor tick mark properties if you select this type.
  • Inside
    Select to display the minor tick marks inside the axis.
  • Outside
    Select to display the minor tick marks outside the axis.
  • Cross
    Select to display the minor tick marks across the axis.

Line

You can specify line properties of the minor tick marks on the axis in this box.

  • Correlate with Axis
    Select to apply the line properties that you define for the axis in the Axis tab to the minor tick marks. When you clear this option, you can specify line properties of the minor tick marks separately using the following options:
    • Color
      Specify the color of the minor tick marks. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
    • Style
      Select the line style of the minor tick marks.
    • Transparency
      Specify the transparency of the minor tick marks.
    • Thickness
      Specify the thickness of the minor tick marks, in pixels.
  • Tick Mark Length
    Specify the length of the minor tick marks, in pixels.

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Font Tab

Use this tab to specify the font style of the major tick mark labels on the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Font

Font

You can specify the font style of the text in the major tick mark labels in this box.

  • Font list
    This drop-down list contains all the font faces you can select to apply to the text.
  • Font Size
    Specify the font size of the text.
  • Font Color
    Specify the font color of the text. To edit the color, select the color indicator and select a color from the color palette, or type the hexadecimal RGB value of a color (for example, 0xff0000) in the text box.
  • Transparency
    Specify the transparency of the text.
  • Rotation
    Specify the rotation angle of the text around its center, in degrees. The default value is 0.
  • Shearing
    Specify the gradient of the text.

Effects

You can specify the special effects of the text in the major tick mark labels in this box.

  • Style
    Select the font style of the text. It can be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, and bold italic.
  • Strikethrough
    Select the style of the horizontal line using which to strikethrough the text. It can be one of the following: none, thin line, bold line, and double lines.
  • Underline
    Select the style of the horizontal line under the text. It can be one of the following: none, single, single lower, bold line, bold lower, double lines, bold double, patterned line, and bold patterned. When you select "patterned line" or "bold patterned", Designer draws a line or bold line in the pattern of the text.

    • Note icon Web Report Studio and JDashboard do not support underlining chart text, therefore, this property is ignored when the chart runs in Web Report Studio or is used in a dashboard.

  • Superscript
    Select to raise the text above the baseline and change the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
  • Subscript
    Select to lower the text below the baseline and change the text to a smaller font size, if a smaller size is available.
  • Embossed
    Select to make the text appear to be raised off the page in relief.
  • Engraved
    Select to make the text appear to be imprinted or pressed into the page.
  • Outlined
    Select to display the exterior border around each character of the text.
  • Shadowed
    Select to add a shadow beneath and to the right of the text.

Sample

This box displays a preview sample based on your selections.

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Orientation Tab

Use this tab to specify the rotation angle of the major tick mark labels on the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Orientation

Automatic

Select to adjust the rotation angle of the major tick mark labels on the axis automatically according to the length of the label text, in degrees.

Angle

Select and specify the rotation angle of the major tick mark labels on the axis in the text box. When you change the rotation angle in the text box, the red line in the spin box changes correspondingly, and vice versa.

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Format Tab

Use this tab to specify the data format of the major tick mark labels on the value axis.

Format Value (Y) Axis - Format

Category & Format

These two boxes list the category types and the formats of each category that Designer provides by default. Select a category and a format for this category, then select Add to add it as the format of the category. You can add only one format for each category.

Properties

This text box shows the properties of the format that you select in the Format box. If the default formats Designer provides for a category cannot meet your requirement, you can define your own format in the text box and select Add to add it as the format of the category.

Auto Scale in Number

Specify whether to automatically scale the Number values that fall into the two ranges:

  • When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Designer applies 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, Designer uses scientific notation to scale the values.

By default, Designer selects "auto" for the option, meaning, Designer applies the setting that you specify for the same property on the chart in the Report Inspector for the values. If you select "true", Designer applies the specified format to the integer part of the values after scaling them; however, if the specified format conflicts with the logic of Auto Scale in Number, for example, the values display in percentage, Designer ignores the Auto Scale in Number setting. Select "false" if you do not want to scale the values.

Sample

This box displays a sample for the selected format.

Stack

This box lists all the formats that you select from different categories.

Add

Select to add a format to the Stack box.

Remove

Select to remove the specified format from the Stack box.

Apply

Select to apply the specified format to the major tick mark labels.

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