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Formatting the Bars in a Bar/Bench Chart

1. Right-click any bar/bench in the bar/bench chart and select Format 2D Bar or Format 3D Bar from the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Bar dialog.

   

2. In the General tab, specify the general settings of the bars.

   In the Layout box, set the layout of the bars. For a 3-D chart, specify the size of the bars. For a 2-D chart, you can also set the style of the bars to be normal or cylinder, and if you want to add a 3-dimensional effect to the bars, set the Use Depth option to true and specify the depth and direction as required. If the chart uses a query resource as the data source, you can use a formula to control the Use Depth option.

3. For a 2-D chart, in the Size tab, specify the size of the bars which can either be dynamic or fixed.

   To use dynamic bar width, make sure Fixed Bar Width is unchecked, specify the general bar width as a percentage of the unit width. If the chart is a clustered 2-D bar/bench chart which contains data on the series axis or has more than one value on the value axis, you can specify the gap between the bars as a percentage of the unit width, and in the Individual Bar Width box, specify how much the selected bars in the same data series is wider or narrower than a general bar in percentage. You can also click the Size List button to specify the size for bars in the same data series respectively in the Size List dialog.

   

   To use fixed bar width, check Fixed Bar Width, specify the general bar width. If the chart is a clustered 2-D bar/bench chart which contains data on the series axis or has more than one value on the value axis, you can specify the gap between the bars within a group, and the outer gap between bars out of a group. In the Individual Bar Width box, specify the width and gap for the selected bars in the same data series. Click the Size List button to specify the size for bars in the same data series respectively in the Size List dialog if needed. You can also use formulas to control the options.

   

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

   

   If you select Use Single Color as the fill type:

   • If the chart has no series field, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill the bars (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). If you want to make the bar colors vary, check Vary Colors by Color List, then click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for each bar in the Color List dialog.
   • If the chart has series field, specify the color and transparency of the color schema to fill the bars in the current data series, that is the bars in the same data series as the one you have right-clicked on to open the Format Bar dialog. You can also click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for bars in each data series respectively in the Color List dialog.

   If you select Use Single Color with Condition or Use Multiple Color with Condition as the fill type, specify the conditions and the color pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding Conditional Color Fills to Charts.

5. In the Border tab, set the border mode for the bars, including the border style, color, transparency, line style, thickness, end caps style, and line joint mode, and if you specify the line joint mode to be joint round, you can set the the radius for the border joint. 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.

   

6. In the Data Label tab, specify whether or not to show static data labels on the bars, and if to show the position of the label related to the bars. When the position of the static data label is set to one of the following: inside center, inside top or inside bottom, you can further specify whether or not to display the data labels inside the bars at the best position. Then in the Font and Effects boxes, set the font formats and effects of the data labels.

   

7. For a bar chart in a library component, you can define web behaviors on the bars 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, bind a web action to the bars the same as you do to a label in the library component, which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the bars. 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.

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

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