DotPlot Chart Designer

This dialog is used to format any Dotplot In-Cell Charts in your report.

For details about how to invoke the dialog, see In-Cell Chart Designer.

Chart Options

Length

The horizontal scale factor to use when drawing the chart

Colour

The colour to draw the plots

Plot symbol

There are two choices:

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Stacking type

Based on the stacking type - the values will be grouped and drawn either varying the colour or the vertical position:

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Stacking value type

Defines how dots are stacked - the number of values, an alternate set of values or a random jitter:

Count, The Y value is defined by the number of values that are the same

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Values, provide another range the same shape as the source values and this allows plotting of specific X & Y values

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Jitter, the Y value is taken from a fixed set of random values to allow dots near each other to be easily distinguished

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Colours

Defines the Colours to use when stacking values

Axis

Use title only

Displays the text in the header cell for the charts

Axis with tickmarks above

Axis will have tickmarks above the base line

Axis with tickmarks below

Axis will have tickmarks below the base line

Custom tickmark frequency

Controls how often a axis value will be displayed

Minor tick per major tick

Number of ticks to appear inbetween each value

Show labels on major ticks

Controls when to display the values

Number format

Specify the number format for the tickmarks

Custom x-axis min & Custom x-axis max

Controls the horizontal maximums and minimums

Custom y-axis min & Custom y-axis max

Controls the maximums and minimums for when stacking is enabled