Formatting the lines

To format the lines in a line chart, follow the steps below:

  1. Right-click any line in the line chart, and then select Format 2D Line or Format 3D Line to bring out the Format Line dialog.
  2. In the General tab,
  3. In the Fill tab,
  4. In the Node tab (the tab is available to 2-D lines only), specify the fill type of the nodes: Use Single Color or Use Single Color with Condition.

    If you select Use Single Color as the fill type, in the Shape box, set Show Node to true, then specify the style, transparency, width, height and color of the nodes in the selected line, and specify whether or not to display the line nodes in the highest and lowest points with other colors and whether to show the highlight point in a distinguishing color when you hover the mouse over a node in the line. In the Border box, set the border properties of the nodes on the selected line, including border color, transparency, line style and thickness. If you set the node style to plus, multiplication, star1 or star2, the Line box is available instead of the Border box, in which you can specify the line style and thickness for the nodes with selected styles. You can also click the Node Pattern List button to specify the node pattern for each line in the Node Pattern List dialog.

    If you select Use Single Color with Condition as the fill type, specify the conditions and the node pattern bound with each condition respectively. For details, refer to Adding conditional color fill to a chart.

  5. In the Border tab (the tab is available to 3-D lines only), set the border mode of the lines, 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.
  6. In the Data Label tab, specify whether or not to show static data labels for every line node, and if to show, the position of the label related to the node. In the Font and Effects boxes, set the font formats and effects of the data labels.
  7. In the Behaviors tab (this tab is only available to library components), 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 to open the Web Action List dialog, where you can bind a web action to the lines such as Parameter, Filter, Sort, Property, SendMessage which will be triggered when the specified event occurs on the lines.

    To add a web behavior line, click , and if a web behavior is not required, click to remove it.

    Click or to adjust the order of the behaviors. Then, when an event that has been bound with more than one action happens, the upper action will be triggered first.

  8. Click OK to apply the settings and close the dialog.

See also the Format Line dialog for page report, web report, or library component for detailed explanation about options in the dialog.

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