Changing chart component properties, Working with chart “pens – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide User Manual

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Chapter 6 Customizing RSBizWare Charts and Tables

3. Modify the text and then click OK to save your changes.

Examples of standard properties that you can change for chart
components are border style and font style. In addition to the
standard properties, each chart component type has some specific
properties that relate only to its type. For example, the chart legend

has properties that specify how the keys will be displayed within the
legend.

To access the property page for a chart component:

1. Make sure that the sizing handles and highlighted border are

visible around the component.

2. Right-click the chart component and then click Chart Object

Properties.

When you create a chart, the bars, pie slices, or lines of the chart are

drawn with a default style. To make the chart easier to read or more
appealing to users, you can change the color, formatting, and size of
the data series used. For example, you can change the thickness of
the lines in your X-Y chart to make them easier to see.

To customize the chart styles:

1. Make sure that the sizing handles and highlighted border are

visible around the component.

2. Right-click the line, bar, or pie slice that you want to modify,

and then on the shortcut menu click the desired option. The

options available vary depending on what component type
(line, bar, or pie slice) your chart uses. If your chart has an
authoring legend, you can also use the chart property fields
added to the authoring legend to customize colors and styles.

Changing Chart Component
Properties

Working With Chart “Pens”

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Rockwell Automation Publication PLTMT-UM001M-EN-P-June 2014

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