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Formatting the Areas in an Area Chart

1. Right-click any area in the area chart and click Format 2D Area or Format 3D Area on the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Area dialog.

   

2. In the General tab, set the layout style of the area chart. Check Ignore Null Value if you want the areas to be drawn from the previous data values to the next data values directly when null data values appear to avoid breaks on the areas.

   For a 2-D area chart, if you want to add a 3-dimensional effect to the areas, set the Use Depth option to true and specify the depth and direction as required. If the chart uses a query resouce as the data resource, you can use a formula to control the Use Depth option. You can also set to show the lines that represent the data categories by checking High-Low Lines.

3. In the Fill tab, specify the fill type: Use Single Color or Use Multiple Colors with Condition.

   

   If you select Use Single Color as the fill type, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill the current area, that is the area you have right-clicked on to open the Format Area dialog (to change the color, click the color image and select a color from the color palette or input the hexadecimal value of a color directly in the text box). To specify the color pattern for each area in the area chart, click the Color List button and customize the color patterns in the Color List dialog.

   If you select Use Multiple Colors with Condition as the fill type (only applied to Area 2-D and Area 3-D types), specify the conditions and the color pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding Conditional Color Fills to Charts.

4. In the Border tab, set the border mode for the areas, including the border style, color, transparency, line style, thickness, end caps style, and line joint mode. You can also specify whether the border is to be outlined, and whether or not to automatically resize the border dashes if the border is drawn with dashes. The specified border properties take effect only when the Border property of the chart paper is set to true in the Report Inspector.

   

5. In the Data Label tab, specify whether or not to show static data labels on the area nodes, and if to show the position of the labels related to the area nodes. In the Font and Effects boxes, set the font formats and effects of the data labels.

   

6. For an area chart in a library component, you can define web behaviors on the areas in the Behaviors tab.

   

   Select a trigger event from the drop-down list in the Events column, then click in the Actions column and click that appears in the text box. In the Web Action List dialog, where you can bind a web action to the areas the same as you do to a label in the library component, which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the areas. The web actions you can bind include Parameter, Filter, Sort, Change Property and Send Message.

   To add more web behaviors, click and define them as required; if a web behavior is not required, select it and click . Click or to adjust the order of the behaviors, then at runtime when an event that has been bound with more than one action happens, the upper action will be triggered first.

7. Click OK to accept the changes and close the dialog.

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