Using Charts

Univariate and Cross tabulation reports can now include charts. To produce the charts, simply click the "graph" option on that page.
When the report is viewed, it will include a graph. For example:

The chart can be edited and downloaded to the browser, Excel and PowerPoint. Clicking on the graph produces a page with the following options.

The top of the page includes four links:

• Printable chart - displays the chart by itself in the browser, where it can be printed using File / Print.
• View in PowerPoint - downloads the chart into PowerPoint, where it can be resized and used in a presentation.
• View in Excel - downloads the chart into Excel, where it can be used in a spreadsheet.
• Return to report - closes the page and redisplays the original report

Below the graph, four links open up sections that allow changing the graph appearance:

• Style - allows changing the graph type from a pie chart to a bar chart (for univariate reports) and between a side by side bar chart and a 3D stacked cubes chart (for cross tabulations)
• Text - allows changing the chart legends and titles
• Font - allows changing the chart font, size, and color
• Color - allows changing the chart background, whether the background is flat or a color gradient, the colors of the bars or pie elements, and whether the bars are solid colors or transparent

At the bottom of the page, three buttons determine what to do next:

• View - redraws the chart after style, text, font or color settings are changed
• Save - saves the chart settings for the next time the chart is drawn
• Set default - saves the chart settings so that they become the default for other univariate or cross tabulation charts in this survey

System Administrator note:  About fonts in charts

The fonts that are available depend on the fonts that are installed in the system, in the application server's Java VM.
When using international character sets such as Chinese, an appropriate font must be installed. Some fonts to consider are:
Microsoft Arial Unicode MS and Cyberbit.

Default chart options can be set by adding the following to viewsflash.properties:
chart.fontstyle=Arial Unicode MS
chart.fontsize=10
chart.fontcolor=0
chart.colors=8080FF,80FF80,FF8080,80FFFF,FFFF80,FF80FF
chart.bgcolor=0x00FFEE44
chart.3d=true

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