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Formatting the Indicators in an Indicator Chart

  1. Right-click any indicator in the indicator chart and select Format Indicator from the shortcut menu to bring up the Format Indicator dialog.
  2. In the General tab, specify the general properties of the indicators.

    Format Indicator dialog - General

    In the Style box, specify to use an indicator or multiple indicators to show each value in the chart.

    In the Option box, set the left margin, top margin, range radius and the shape of the indicators, and how to fill the indicators. You can specify to fill the whole indictor or portion of the indicators calculated based on the the maximum value in the Value box. When a value in the chart is less than the minimum value, the indicator will not be filled. When a value in the chart is greater than the minimum value, the value divided by the maximum value you specify will be the portion to be filled.

    In the Border box, set the line style, the thickness, the color and transparency for borders of the indicators.

    In the Value box, the maximum and minimum values displayed on the chart. The default value is Auto, which means using the actual minimum and maximum values in the chart. You can also specify the values by yourself. Not available when the value of the indicator chart is Boolean or String type.

    In the Value Label box, specify whether to show the values of the indicators and the position relationship of the values and the indicators.

  3. In the Frame tab, specify the properties for the frame of the indicator chart.

    Format Indicator dialog - Frame

    In the Size box, specify the size of the frame.

    In the Fill box, specify the color and the transparency of the color to fill the frame.

    In the Border box, specify the properties for borders of the frame, including the type, color, line style, transparency, thickness, ending style, line joint style, fill pattern and dash size.

    In the Category Label box, check Show Category Label to show the category labels for the indicators, which display the category value each indicator represents.

  4. In the Range Color tab, specify different colors or images to fill the indicators.
  5. For an indicator chart in a library component, you can define web behaviors on the indicators in the Behaviors tab.

    Format Indicator dialog for library component - Behaviors

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

    To add more web behaviors, click Add button and define them as required; if a web behavior is not required, select it and click Remove button. Click Move Up button or Move Down button 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.

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

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