The formatting tools for gauges enable you to change the design of the gauges, change the background color, and scale the chart down to fit the canvas. With the Gauge Chart selected from the Formatting panel drop-down, the Design, Fill, Settings, and Miniature tabs are exposed.
You can also access:
- Report Title: customize the report title.
- Gauge Labels: (supported for gauge charts only) customize the labels on the gauge charts.
- Legend: edit the report legend by changing its position, layout, and fonts.
Design
From the Design tab, adjust the look and feel of the gauges in the chart.
- Gauge Shape: Display the gauge as a square (default) or rectangle.
- Background Color: Use the color picker to change the color of the gauge background; the color will be added to the background of each gauge. If you have a hierarchy or measure in the Color drop zone, this will override gauge background color selected from the Formatting panel.
- Border Color: Adjust the border color for each gauge; the border color will only be visible if the border width is above 0 or the shadow is on.
- Border Width: Adjust the border width for each gauge.
- Shadow: Show a shadow around each gauge.
Fill
From the Fill tab, change the report background color.
- Background Color: Use the color picker to change the color of the report without affecting the gauge background.
Settings
From the Settings tab, customize titles, and scale the visual.
- Titles:
- Status: Use the auto title or set a custom title for the status.
- Value: Use the auto title or set a custom title for the value.
- Target: Use the auto title or set a custom title for the target.
- Hide Titles: to hide a title, set it to Custom and then hit the space bar; the title will be hidden from the gauge.
- Secondary Titles: set to Static to show value labels as "Status", "Value", and "Target". Set to Dynamic to use the current measure as the title.
- Scale to Fit: Scale the visualization down to fit on the canvas.
- Optimize Visual: The visual optimization engine in Pyramid is a heuristic that automatically redacts certain parts of a graphical visualization based on the amount of space provided.
- Auto Fit Labels: Toggle between auto fitting the labels to the space available and using fixed sizes for the label text. Note: When Auto Fit is off, the font sizes are determined using the Gauge Labels settings.
Example
In this example, the chart was scaled down and the mode was changed to Rectangle:
