Custom Appearance Properties

Updated over 1 year ago

Apart from the common properties, every chart element may have unique appearance properties, e.g. “Figure”, “Rotation Angle”, “Text Properties”, etc. Here is a quick reference of the unique appearance properties of the chart and its elements.

Chart

Set dimensions	Layout -> Width Layout -> Height
Set the chart type	Appearance -> DefaultType
Set series orientation	Appearance -> Series Orientation
Set a series palette	Appearance -> SeriesPalette Appearance -> CustomPalettes
Set a predefined chart skin	Appearance -> Skin
Set a bar overlap ratio How much two adjacent bars overlap each other	Appearance -> Appearance -> BarOverlapPercent
Set bar width Define how much space will occupy all bars located on the same spot on the X Axis. The value represents percent of the total available space for that X Axis value.	Appearance -> Appearance -> BarWidthPercent
Set text quality	Appearance -> Appearance -> TextQuality
Set alternative text (accessibility feature)	Appearance -> AlternativeText
Set the image MIME type (file type)	Settings -> ChartImageFormat

Chart title

Set the form	Elements -> ChartTitle -> Appearance -> Figure
Set a rotation angle	Elements -> ChartTitle -> Appearance -> RotationAngle
Style the chart title marker	Elements -> ChartTitle -> Marker -> Appearance

Legend

Style the legend title	Elements -> Legend -> TextBlock
Style the legend marker	Elements -> Legend -> Marker -> Appearance
Style the legend items’ appearance	Elements -> Legend -> Appearance -> ItemAppearance Elements -> Legend -> Appearance -> ItemMarkerAppearance Elements -> Legend -> Appearance -> ItemTextAppearance
Set legend items’ orientation	Elements -> Legend -> Appearance -> Overflow
Set a rotation angle	Elements -> Legend -> Appearance -> RotationAngle

PlotArea and Axes

Style the empty series (no data) message	Elements -> PlotArea -> EmptySeriesMessage
Set intelligent series’ label positioning	Elements -> PlotArea -> IntelligentLabelsEnabled
Set the axis’ layout mode Determine whether the axis values’ positions match the gridlines or the values are places between the gridlines	Elements -> PlotArea -> [axis] -> LayoutMode
Style the axis’ maximum value end	Elements -> PlotArea -> axis [axis] -> Appearance -> Cap