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Formatting the Bullets in a Bullet Chart

1. Right-click any bullet in the bullet chart, and then select Format Bullet from the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Bullet dialog.

   

2. In the General tab, specify the size of the bullets by setting the width of the featured measure, comparative measure and qualitative ranges respectively.
3. In the Fill tab, specify the fill properties of the bullets.

   

   In the Featured Measure Color List box, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill all the featured measures (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 featured measure colors vary, check Vary Colors by Color List, then click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for each featured measure in the Color List dialog.

   In the Comparative Measure Color List, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill the selected comparative measures in the same data series. Click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for comparative measures in the same data series respectively if needed.

   In the Qualitative Ranges Color List box, specify the color and the transparency of the color schema to fill the selected qualitative ranges in the same data series. Click the Color List button to specify the color pattern for qualitative ranges in the same data series respectively if necessary.

4. In the Border tab, set the border mode for the bullets, 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 the font formats and effects of the data labels on the bullets.

   

6. For a bullet chart in a library component, you can define web behaviors on the bullets 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 bullets the same as you do to a label in the library component, which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the bullets. 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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