### Format Platform dialog

This dialog helps you to format the platform of a chart. It contains the following tabs:

- General tab
- Border tab
- Data tab
- Others tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

#### General tab

This tab shows some general information of the chart platform. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the platform, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the platform.

Position

Displays the position mode of the platform. If the platform is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

- Absolute: The platform's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
- Static: The platform will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the platform.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the platform.

Width

Specifies the width of the platform.

Height

Specifies the height of the platform.

Fill Type

Specifies a type for filling the platform.

Color

Indicates the background color of the platform.

To change the color, click the color indicator to bring out the Select Color dialog, and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the chart background.

Show Legend

Specifies whether or not to show the legend.

#### Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the chart platform. See the tab.

Line Style

Specifies the line style of the platform borders.

Border Type

Specifies the type of the platform borders.

Color

Specifies the color of the platform borders.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the platform borders.

Thickness

Specifies the thickness of the platform borders.

#### Data tab

You can use this tab to view and configure properties of the chart data. See the tab.

Sort Category

Specifies the sorting order for the category field values.

Sort Series

Specifies the sorting order for the series field values.

Reverse Category

Specifies whether or not to reverse the category field value sequence.

Reverse Series

Specifies whether or not to reverse the series field value sequence.

Category Start Offset

Specifies the starting offset of the categories.

Category End Offset

Specifies the ending offset of the categories.

Series Start Offset

Specifies the starting offset of the series.

Series End Offset

Specifies the ending offset of the series.

Category Value Encoding

Specifies the encoding format for values on the category axis. Formats here usually refer to the following: BIG5, EUCJIS, GBK, UTF8, and XXXXX....

Series Value Encoding

Specifies the encoding format for values on the series axis. Formats here usually refer to the following: BIG5, EUCJIS, GBK, UTF8, and XXXXX....

Swap Data Group

Specifies to display values from different data fields by switching data between the category and series axes, the category and values axes.

#### Others tab

You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the platform to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.

Suppress When No Records

If true and no records are returned by the report, the platform will not be displayed.

Export to XLS

If true, the platform will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).

Export to CSV

If true, the platform will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.