Using the Chart Wizard
The Chart Wizard allows you to create new chart styles or amend an existing one based on a step by step process. You select a chart style, set the chart options, control the chart layout and specify chart and axis titles. The Chart Wizard is available in the Analysis Display window. Right-click the mouse or […]
Using the Chart Designer
Once you have set up the chart in the Analysis Definition dialog, you can start the Chart Designer by clicking the Edit Style button in the toolbar of the Analysis Display window. The chart elements are listed on the left hand panel in the Chart Designer. Selecting a chart element displays tabs that allow you […]
Chart styles
A chart consists of The chart is defined in the Analysis Definition dialog where the chart style is selected. The chart style template defines how the analysis data is displayed. There are a number of chart and table styles that are supplied with Snap XMP Desktop. You can adapt these to your requirements using the […]
Chart elements
Each chart is contains a number of elements. The Title is an area to display the name used to identify the chart. The title is composed of the variable labels for the variables on the chart. This can be replaced with user defined text. The Plot is the area of the chart that displays the […]
Types of chart
The most popular types of charts available, are shown here. Further styles are also available such as Gantt, Bubble and Hi-Lo. Area charts Area Charts are most often used to emphasise the relative importance of values over a period of time. An area chart focuses on the magnitude of change rather than the rate of […]
Choosing what is displayed in a table
You can specify whether the different row and column labels should appear in your table. For each section you can select whether to show row and column labels, row labels only, column labels only or none. If your table contains questions with multiple codes, you can decide whether the question text appears above the code […]
Changing the position of text and the size of table cells
The text in tables is placed in cells. You can position the text in the top, bottom or middle of a cell, and aligned left, right or centre. You can also specify how far the text is from the edge of the cell to give more or less space between the text and cell borders. […]
Changing the highlighting and spacing of rows and columns
You can define highlights which are used to highlight some of the rows or columns of a table. You specify the look of the highlight in the Define Table style dialog, and which rows or columns are highlighted in the Separators dialog. Defining how the lines will look Open the table to be changed Click […]
Changing the lines between table rows and columns
The default style of an analysis table has lines around each cell of the table to create a boxed effect. Each of the regions of a table can be defined to include or exclude any of these lines. This is done using the Define Table Style dialog. Open the table to be changed Click , […]
Using table styles
Editing table styles You can edit the way the table looks using the Table styles, Separators, Sizing and Options dialogs available from the context menu. Loading table styles You can load an existing style by The table style files have the extension .tsf . Styles provided with Snap XMP Desktop are stored in the Styles […]