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bulletProperties: {
   drawFirstValueAsBar: boolean},

where:

drawFirstValueAsBar: boolean

Valid values are:

• true, which draws the first data value as a bar. This is the default value.
• false, which draws the first data value as a marker.

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Example: Controlling the Appearance of a Bullet Chart

The following request creates a bullet chart using the default value (true) for the drawFirstValueAsBar property

GRAPH FILE WFLITE
SUM COGS_US 
BY TIME_DAYNAME
WHERE TIME_DAYNAME EQ 'FRI' OR 'SAT' OR 'SUN'
ON GRAPH HOLD FORMAT JSCHART
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 80
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH CUSTOM
ON GRAPH SET STYLE *
*GRAPH_JS
chartType: 'bullet',
bulletProperties:  
   {drawFirstValueAsBar: true},
yaxis: {
   colorBands: [
     {start: 0,stop: 200000,color: 'silver'},
     {start: 200000,stop: 400000,color: 'lightgrey'},
     {start: 400000,stop: 600000,color: 'whitesmoke'}
       ], 
},
series: [
{series: 'all', showDataValues: false},
{series: 0, group: 0, color: 'yellow', 
  marker: {size: 15, position: 'bottom'}},
{series: 0, group: 1, color: 'red', 
  marker: {size: 15, position: 'top'}},
{series: 0, group: 2, color: 'blue', 
  marker: {size: 15, position: 'middle'}}
]
*END
ENDSTYLE
END

On the chart, the first data value is represented by a yellow bar, and the other data values are represented by red and blue triangles:

Changing the value of drawFirstValueAsBar to false generates a chart on which the yellow marker is now a triangle: