Appboard/old/widgets/line chart
Revision as of 19:24, 13 March 2012 by imported>Cmace (created to remove appboard_builder)
Adding a Line Chart Widget
Click "Add Widget" in the tool palette on the left. If "Add Widget" is disabled, refer to the "Adding a Stack" section. For a general overview of adding a "Widget" refer to Add/Edit/Remove a Widget.
- Enter a name for the Widget
- Select "Line" under the "Charts" tab.
- Select the Board you'd like the Column Chart Widget to appear on.
- Click "Add Widget".
Configuring a Line Chart Widget
- Select a Data Collection that contains the information you'd like to use for this widget. The Data Collection should contain one or more numeric fields to use as Y values which will be plotted against the corresponding X value.
- Click the "Data Collection" pulldown, then select from the list of available Data Collections.
- If you do not see any Data Collections, refer to Add/Edit/Remove a Data Collection.
- Select the desired field for the X axis.
- Select the desired type of field.
- LinearAxis: use for numeric X values that increase by a relatively uniform amount from value to value.
- LogAxis: use for numeric X values that increase exponentially.
- CategoryAxis: use for X values that are list of strings like month names or employee names.
- DateTimeAxis: use for X values that are a timeline.
- note: for a DateTimeAxis to work correctly the field in the underlying Data Source must be type "DATE".
- Click "Add" for the Series.
- Select the Y axis field using the drop down list.
- Select the desired line graph type using the "From" drop down list.
- segment: a line segment will be drawn from one point to the next.
- curve: fit a spline to the points. The effect is like a line segments with smoothing.
- horizontal: a horizontal line is drawn from each point over to the X coordinate of the next point with a vertical skip between each data point, creating the look of "floating" lines.
- reverseStep: a vertical line is drawn starting at each point up or down to the Y coordinate of the next point followed by a horizontal line drawn to the next point.
- step: a horizontal line is draw starting at each point over to the X coordinate of the next point (in the same manner as "horizontal") followed by a vertical line up or down to the next point.
- vertical: at each point, a vertical line is drawn starting at the Y coordinate of the previous point up or down to the current point. There is no line at the first point.
- Select the color for the line segments by clicking on the color selector and picking a color off of the popup.
- Repeat for any additional series.
- Series may be removed with the "Remove" button next to the "Add". Click anywhere on a row to select the row to "Remove".
- Check or uncheck "Show Legend" as desired to include a legend of the line color for each Series (by Y-Field name).
- Enable the X-Axis title and enter value as desired.
- Enable the X-Axis labels and rotate them as desired.
- Enable the Y-Axis title and enter value as desired.
- Enable the Y-Axis labels and rotate them as desired.
- Complete "Options" and "Actions" steps as described in Add/Edit/Remove a Widget.