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Format Category (X) Axis Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Format Category (X) Axis dialog box to format the category (X) axis of a chart.

Server displays the dialog box when you right-click a chart and then select Format Axes (unavailable to pie, indicator, heat map, and org charts) > Format Category (X) Axis from the shortcut menu.

This topic contains the following sections:

• Axis Tab Properties
• Tick Mark Tab Properties
• Font Tab Properties
• Orientation Tab Properties
• Format Tab Properties

You see these elements on all the tabs:

OK

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

Cancel

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Help button

Select to view information about the dialog box.

Close button

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Axis Tab Properties

Specify the general properties of the axis.

Option

Specify the properties for the axis.

• Minimum Value
  Specify the minimum value you want to display on the axis. This property is only available to bubble chart when no field is on the Bubble X-axis.
• Maximum Value
  Specify the maximum value you want to display on the axis. This property is only available to bubble chart when no field is on the Bubble X-axis.
• Increment
  Specify the difference between two adjacent values on the axis. This property is only available to bubble chart when no field is on the Bubble X-axis.
• Number of Tick Marks
  Specify the number of tick marks you want to display on the axis. This property is only available to bubble chart when no field is on the Bubble X-axis.
• Show Gridlines
  Select if you want to show the horizontal gridlines in the chart.

Scrollable Chart

Select if you want to make the chart scrollable. Server will add a scroll bar in the chart, with which you can control the visible value range on the axis. This property is available to 2D charts of bar, bench, line, area, and stock types only.

• Scrollable Visible Values
  Specify the number of data items you want to select on the scroll bar and display on the axis by default.
• Scrolling Area Percentage
  Specify the percentage the scroll bar occupies the whole size of the chart.
• Show Chart in Scrolling Area
  Select if you want to show the thumbnail chart on the scroll bar.

Line

Specify the line style for the axis.

• Color
  Specify the color of the axis.
• Style
  Specify the style for the line of the axis.
• Transparency
  Specify the transparency for the color of the axis.
• Thickness
  Specify the thickness for the line of the axis, in inches.

Gap

Specify the gap properties for the labels on the axis.

• Label Axis Gap
  Specify the distance between the label and the axis, in inches.
• Best Effect
  Select if you want to adjust the labels automatically to make them placed best.
• Auto
  Select if you want the major tick mark labels on the axis to use values of the field displayed on the axis. You can clear it to customize the label text.
  • Label Text
    Specify the text of the major tick mark labels on the axis. Type the label text manually, or select and then select a field from the drop-down list to use its values as the label text.

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Tick Mark Tab Properties

The tab consists of three sub tabs:

• Major Tick Mark
• Minor Tick Mark
• Scale

Major Tick Mark

Specify the properties of the major tick marks on the axis.

Type

Specify the type of the major tick marks on the axis.

• None
  Select if you don't want to display major tick marks on the axis. In this case, you needn't specify the other major tick mark related properties.
• Inside
  Select to display major tick marks inside the chart.
• Outside
  Select to display major tick marks outside the chart.
• Cross
  Select to display major tick marks across the axis.

Line

Specify the line properties of the major tick marks on the axis.

• Correlate with Axis
  Select if you want the line properties of the major tick marks to correlate with that of the axis automatically. You can clear this property and customize the line properties.
  • Color
    Specify the line color.
  • Style
    Select the line type.
  • Transparency
    Specify the transparency for the line color.
  • Thickness
    Specify the line thickness in inches.
• Tick Mark Length
  Specify the line length in inches.

Option

Specify other properties of the major tick mark labels on the axis.

• Show Major Tick Mark Labels
  Select if you want to display the labels of the major tick marks on the axis. Then, Server enables the following properties.
• Label Every N Major Tick Marks
  Specify the frequency at which you want to label the major tick marks.
• Show Axis Label Tips
  Select if you want to display the complete label text when you hover over a label on the axis.
• Number of Major Labels
  Specify the number of major tick mark labels you want to display on the axis.
  • Auto
    Select if you want all major tick mark labels to show.
  • Fixed
    Select and then you can specify the number of the major tick mark labels to display on the axis.

Minor Tick Mark

Specify the properties of the minor tick marks on the axis.

Type

Specify the type of the minor tick marks on the axis.

• None
  Select if you don't want to display minor tick marks on the axis. In this case, you needn't specify the other minor tick mark related properties.
• Inside
  Select to display minor tick marks inside the chart.
• Outside
  Select to display minor tick marks outside the chart.
• Cross
  Select to display minor tick marks across the axis.

Line

Specify the line properties of the minor tick marks on the axis.

• Correlate with Axis
  Select if you want the line properties of the minor tick marks to correlate with that of the axis automatically. You can clear this property and customize the line properties.
  • Color
    Specify the line color.
  • Style
    Select the line type.
  • Transparency
    Specify the transparency for the line color.
  • Thickness
    Specify the line thickness in inches.
• Tick Mark Length
  Specify the line length in inches.

Option

Specify other properties of the minor tick marks on the axis.

• Show Minor Tick Mark Labels
  Select if you want to display the labels of the minor tick marks on the axis. This property takes effect only when you select Use Constant Interval in the Tick Mark > Scale tab. When you select this property, Server enables the following properties.
• Label Every N Minor Tick Marks
  Specify the frequency at which you want to label the minor tick marks.
• Number of Minor Labels
  Specify the number of minor tick mark labels you want to display on the axis.
  • Auto
    Select if you want all minor tick mark labels to show.
  • Fixed
    Select and then you can specify the number of the minor tick mark labels you want to display on the axis.

Scale

Customize the way in which you want to label the major and minor tick marks on the axis with constant interval. Server activates this tab only when the field on the category axis is one of the following types: Number, Date, DateTime, and Time (for a bubble chart only when the category field is one of the preceding types and the Bubble X-axis uses the category field).

Use Constant Interval

Select if you want to use a constant interval to label the tick marks. Then, Server increases the values of the tick marks continually on the axis based on the following properties instead of just using the data values, and ignores the customized major tick mark labels in the Axis tab.

Minimum

Specify the minimum value for labeling the tick marks.

• Auto
  Select if you want Report to define the minimum value automatically.
• Fixed
  Select if you want to define the minimum value. Type the value in the text box, or select and then select a field from the drop-down list to control it. You can also select the Calendar icon to specify it using the calendar if the field on the category axis is of Date, DateTime, or Time type.

Maximum

Specify the maximum value for labeling the tick marks.

• Auto
  Select if you want Report to define the maximum value automatically.
• Fixed
  Select if you want to define the maximum value. Type the value in the text box, or select and then select a field from the drop-down list to control it. You can also select the Calendar icon to specify it using the calendar if the field on the category axis is of Date, DateTime, or Time type.

Major Unit

Specify the unit between two adjacent major tick marks.

• Auto
  Select if you want Report to define the unit automatically.
• Fixed
  Select if you want to define the unit. Type the value in the text box, or select one from the drop-down list if the field on the category axis is of Date, DateTime, or Time type.

Minor Unit

Specify the unit between two adjacent minor tick marks.

• Auto
  Select if you want Report to define the unit automatically.
• Fixed
  Select if you want to define the unit. Type the value in the text box, or select one from the drop-down list if the field on the category axis is of Date, DateTime, or Time type.

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Font Tab Properties

The tab consists of two sub tabs:

• Major Label
• Minor Label

Major Label

Specify the font format of the major tick mark labels on the axis.

Font

Specify the font face of the label text.

Size

Specify the font size of the label text.

Fill Type

Select the fill type of the label text: None, Color, Texture, or Gradient.

Color

Specify the color of the label text. It takes effect only when Fill Type in this tab is Color.

Transparency

Specify the color transparency of the label text.

Font Style

Select the font style of the label text: Plain, Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic.

Minor Label

Specify the font format of the minor tick mark labels on the axis.

Correlate with Major Label

Select if you want the font format of the minor tick mark labels to correlate with that of the major tick mark labels automatically. Only when you clear this property can the font properties of the minor tick mark labels take effect.

Font

Specify the font face of the label text.

Size

Specify the font size of the label text.

Fill Type

Specify the fill type of the label text: None, Color, Texture, or Gradient.

Color

Specify the color of the label text. It takes effect only when Fill Type in this tab is Color.

Transparency

Specify the color transparency of the label text.

Font Style

Specify the font style of the text: Plain, Bold, Italic, or Bold Italic.

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Orientation Tab Properties

The tab consists of two sub tabs:

• Major Label
• Minor Label

Major Label

Specify the rotation angle of the major tick mark labels on the axis.

Automatic

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

• If the text can completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 0.
• If the text cannot completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 30 anticlockwise. Server displays an ellipsis (…) from the right side of the label, along with part of the name instead of the entire name.

Angle

Select and then customize the rotation angle of the major tick mark label text on the axis.

Minor Label

Specify the rotation angle of the minor tick mark labels on the axis.

Correlate with Major Label

Select if you want the orientation setting of the minor tick mark labels to correlate with that of the major tick mark labels automatically. Only when you clear this property can the orientation properties of the minor tick mark labels take effect.

Automatic

Select if you want to adjust the rotation angle of the minor tick mark label text on the axis automatically according to the length of the label text, in degrees.

• If the text can completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 0.
• If the text cannot completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 30 anticlockwise. Server displays an ellipsis (…) from the right side of the label, along with part of the name instead of the entire name.

Angle

Select and then customize the rotation angle of the minor tick mark label text on the axis.

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Format Tab Properties

The tab consists of two sub tabs:

• Major Label
• Minor Label

Major Label

Specify the data format of the major tick mark labels on the axis.

Truncate

Select to truncate the major tick mark labels when the label text contains more characters than the number you specify to the Maximum Length property of the Chart Paper object in the Inspector.

For the other properties in this tab, see Format Tab Properties.

Minor Label

Specify the data format of the minor tick mark labels on the axis.

Correlate with Major Label

Select if you want the data format of the minor tick mark labels to correlate with that of the major tick mark labels automatically. Only when you clear this property can the format properties of the minor tick mark labels take effect.

For the other properties in this tab, see Format Tab Properties.

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