Trellis Properties dialog: Style tab

Use this tab of the "Trellis Properties dialog" to set properties that control the appearance of the visualization, such as the style.

Components

Note:

The components available in this tab depend on the type of trellis (simple or advanced) and the type of visualization with which you are working.

Sections Formatting

Use this button to display the "Sections Formatting dialog", where you specify how to break pages for PDF printing and how to format sections in a trellis.

Style

Use this box to select the style for the visualization. The options depend on the type of graph chosen for the visualization. For more information on available graph styles, see "What Types of Graphs Are Available?"

Style and Conditional Formatting

Use this button to display the "Style and Conditional Formatting dialog", where you specify formatting.

Use this check box to specify whether the graph is to be three-dimensional

Visualization: Measure Tabs

Displays tabs that correspond to the measures (for example, Revenue and Billed Quantity) used in an advanced trellis. Click the tab of the measure for which you want to set visualization properties.

Bars

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for all the data points in a spark graph for which no other specific color is selected (for example, in the Start box).

Start

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the first data point in a spark graph.

Max

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the largest data point in a spark graph.

End

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the last data point in a spark graph.

Min

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the smallest data point in a spark graph.

Plot Area

Use this box to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the plot area background.

Gridlines

Use these boxes to specify whether to display the default gridlines or gridlines that you specify.

If you select the Specify option, then, for the major grid and for the minor grid, specify the gridlines that you want and their color using the following boxes:

Horizontal Line — Use this box to display a horizontal gridline.
Vertical Line — Use this box to display a vertical gridline.
Color — Displays the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the horizontal and vertical gridlines. This color also is applied to the major and minor tick marks, which you specify on the "Graph Properties dialog: Scale tab".

If you select the Specify option only and do not select any check boxes for the major and minor grid, no gridlines (not even the ones shown by default) are displayed.

Value Formatting

Use this button to display the "Values Formatting dialog", where you specify formatting for the values in a visualization whose type is Numbers.

Background

Use this button to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the legend background.

Transparent

Use this check box to specify whether the legend is transparent (that is, has no background color).

Legend: Border

Use this button to display the Color Selector dialog, where you select the color for the border around the legend.