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| Format | | Allows a string to be formatted in various ways, especially for numeric and date values. Specifies formatting characteristics for the data.
This attribute has been borrowed from the Microsoft Visual Basic Format function. For more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/59bz1f0h(VS.71).aspx
For dates, the non-specific formats, such as "General Date", "Short Time", etc., are converted according to the browser's international setttings. Also, for very large reports, the non-specific formats perform better.
There are also some special formats.
"<" and ">" change strings to lower and upper case.
"Expanded Spaces" preserves space characters that would otherwise be collapsed by the web browser.
"HTML" preserves HTML tags so that they are not encoded - they are embedded rather than shown.
"Preserve Line Feeds" preserves line feed and cariage return characters so that the following characters appear on a new line.
"mp" formats numbers with the "metric prefix". To format 1,234,567 as "$1.23M", use Format "$#.00mp". Supported metric prefixes are from 1000^6 to 1000^-6 For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
"mpsx" formats the value with x number of significant figures in addition to the metric prefix. So a value of 123456, with format set to mps3 will return 123k.
"qq" returns the number of the quarter when the value being formatted represents a date. To return the year and quarter together like "2010 Q1", set the format to "yyyy Qqq".
"fyy" and "fyyyy" return the fiscal year. "fqq" returns the fiscal quarter. The fiscal year start date may be configured in the settings' Globalization element.
"ww" returns the number of the week. The first day of the week may be configured in the settings' Globalization element. |
| LinearTickIncrement | | Years |
| Weeks |
| UserDefined |
| Quarters |
| Months |
| Minutes |
| Hours |
| Days |
| Auto |
| Linear Tick Increment controls how tick marks are created for linear scales. When working with date/time values, you can set the value to one of the date/time values, such as "Year" or "Week". For numeric values, enter a number for a specific tick mark increment. Use "Auto" to automatically set an appropriate increment value.
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| LinearTickMinorIncrement | | Years |
| Weeks |
| UserDefined |
| Quarters |
| Months |
| Minutes |
| Hours |
| Days |
| Auto |
| Linear Tick Minor Increment places minor tick marks between the major tick marks. These are not labeled - they appear as dashes. |
| MarginLower | | Sets a margin inside the plot area. Use margins when data values or bars do not fully appear inside the chart plot area. |
| MarginUpper | | Sets a margin inside the plot area. Use margins when data values or bars do not fully appear inside the chart plot area. |
| ScaleLowerBound | | Sets the lower bound of the axis. Set this value to a number, or leave it blank for automatic scaling. When you have a lower bound, you must also specify an upper bound.
The default value is automatic scaling.
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| ScaleUpperBound | | Sets the upper bound of the axis. Set this value to a number, or leave it blank for automatic scaling. When you have an upper bound, you must also specify a lower bound.
The default value is automatic scaling.
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| ScalingMode | | Standard |
| LinearTime |
| LinearNumeric |
| By default, charts plot data accross the x-axis in an enumerated manner. The spacing is even between each point (row) returned in the DataLayer. This is "Standard" scaling. This works fine in many cases, especially when there are no missing data points. "Linear" scaling plots points according to an x-axis value. The x-axis spread evenly end-to-end, even though the data points are not. Linear spacing works with either numeric or date/time values.
Linear scaling is only appropriate for Line, Area, Spline and Polar charts. |