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Styling the dashboard widgets

The Styling section lets you change the appearance of the selected widget. Only the options applicable for the selected widget are shown.

Add a shadow

The shadow style places a shadow around the widget in the dashboard. This is available for all widgets.

Select the Shadow option to show the shadow.

Clear the Shadow option to remove the shadow.

Padding

The padding changes the margins between the edge of the widget display area and the widget, such as, a title, chart or table. The Padding range is from 0 to 20. This is available for all widgets.

Horizontal axis

Selecting the Horizontal axis option switches the horizontal and vertical axes. This is available for Line charts, Bar chart and Stacked bar.

Bar chart with Horizontal axis option selected

Legend

Selecting the Legend option displays the chart’s legend, helping to identify the chart items. This is available for all charts.

Bar chart (transposed) with legend

Min and max chart axes setting

Enter the minimum and maximum chart axes displayed in the widget.

Enter auto for automatic chart axes calculation.

Dataset colors

You can select the color that you want to display the chart information, such as, the bars on a bar chart or datasets on a line chart.

  1. In Colors, select the item or dataset.
  2. Click Choose color to display the color choices.
  1. Select the color required. The color changes as you select your color letting you see how the chart will appear. Options include
    • Choose a single color
    • Choose to apply a color scheme (Classic, Pastel and Vivid) to all the items in the chart.
    • Click Custom to select a specific color by selecting from the color chart or using RGB, HSL or HEX

Data labels

  1. Select Show data labels to display the labels.
  2. In Position, choose the position of the labels on the chart.
  3. Enter the Offset.
  4. Select Hide zero labels to hide any labels that are zero.
  5. In Color, click the Choose color button to change the label text color.
  6. In Background, click the Choose color button to change the background color of the label.

Line interpolation

This changes the style of the line in Line charts only. You can choose from Linear, Cubic and Stepped.

Select the Line interpolation required, then click OK or Apply to apply the changes.

Fill

Select the Fill option, then click OK to apply to apply the changes.

The Fill option fills in the radar chart with colour.

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