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1. Click the Chart type tab.
2. Select a chart type.

   The chart type editing form for the selected chart type appears below the graph preview area.

3. Click the Value column area to the right of Apply template in the Property column.

   A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

4. Click the down-arrow to open the drop-down list.
5. Select one of the available color scheme templates. For a complete list, see Applying Predefined Color Scheme Templates.

   The color scheme template you selected appears in the graph preview area.

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. In the Chart folder, click the Quick chart form.

   The Quick chart editing form appears below the graph preview area.

3. Click the Value column area to the right of Apply template in the Property column.

   A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

4. Click the down-arrow to open the drop-down list.
5. Select one of the available color scheme templates. For a complete list, see Applying Predefined Color Scheme Templates.

   The color scheme template you selected appears in the graph preview area.

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Custom graph templates are useful when you want complete control over the appearance of a chart. When creating charts, you can utilize custom templates by creating and adding them to the built-in templates that are standard in Advanced Graph Assistant. Custom graph templates can be created, saved, and stored for future use by following the steps below:

1. Create and edit a chart to the desired customized appearance.
2. Save the graph procedure and exit Advanced Graph Assistant.
3. Open the graph procedure (that you saved in step 2) with the Text Editor.
4. Copy all of the formatting (Graph API) calls, located in the GRAPHSTYLE section of the procedure, to a text file using Notepad or a similar tool.

   Note: If you have in-depth knowledge of Graph API calls, you can manually code a custom template in a text file.

5. Save the text file as templatename.txt in the following template directory (where templatename is a descriptive name for the new template):

   drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\ibi_html\javaassist\images\tdg\template

6. Verify that the new custom template you created is in the tool by opening Advanced Graph Assistant and performing the following:
   1. Select a chart type, which displays the chart type editing form for the selected chart type below the graph preview area.
   2. Click the Value column area to the right of Apply template in the Property column.
   3. Click the down-arrow at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.
   4. Use the drop-down list to select the name of the new custom template you created.
   5. Verify the appearance of the new template as it appears in the graph preview area.

Note:

• Before doing a new installation, make a backup copy of the graph templates you created because the template directory is deleted during a new installation.
• The name of the template cannot start with ‘ibi', which is reserved for the built-in templates that are standard in Advanced Graph Assistant.
• If you are generating graphs on the reporting server and using the JSCOM3 method, template files must be saved to the same directory as the reporting server, which is:

  drive:\ibi\srv76\home\graph

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. Use the appropriate Labels form to edit fonts and other related properties.
   • To change X-axis label fonts, click the Labels form in the Ordinal axis folder.
   • To change Y-axis label fonts, click the Labels form in the Y1 axis folder.
   • To change legend fonts, click the Labels form in the Legend folder.
3. You can change any of the following font attributes in the Labels form. To change the:
   • Font name, click the Value column in the row that displays Font name in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired font name from the list.

   • Font size, double-click the Value column in the row that displays Font size in the Property column, then edit the font size number.
   • Font style, click the Value column in the row that displays Font style in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired font style from the list.

   • Text justification, click the Value column in the row that displays Text justification in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired type of text justification from the list.

   • Text rotation, click the Value column in the row that displays Text rotation in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired degree of text rotation from the list.

4. If you changed the font size, you have to turn the automatic resizing feature off to make the change to the font size effective.

   In the Labels chart editing form, click the Value column in the row that displays Automatic resizing in the Property column. A drop-down arrow appears at the right edge of the row in the Value column. Click the down arrow, then select No.

Note: There are additional font attributes you can try that are not listed above, for example, underline style.

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. Use the appropriate form to edit fonts and other related properties.
   • To change chart title fonts, click the Title form in the Titles folder.
   • To change chart subtitle fonts, click the Subtitle form in the Titles folder.
   • To change chart footnote fonts, click the Footnote form in the Titles folder.
3. You can change any of the following font attributes. To change the:
   • Font name, click the Value column in the row that displays Font name in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired font name from the list.

   • Font size, double-click the Value column in the row that displays Font size in the Property column, then edit the font size number.
   • Font style, click the Value column in the row that displays Font style in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired font style from the list.

   • Text justification, click the Value column in the row that displays Text justification in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired type of text justification from the list.

   • Text rotation, click the Value column in the row that displays Text rotation in the Property column.

     Click the drop-down arrow that appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column, then select the desired degree of text rotation from the list.

4. If you changed the font size, you have to turn the automatic resizing feature off to make the change to the font size effective.

   In the Title, Subtitle, or Footnote chart editing form, click the Value column in the row that displays Auto resize in the Property column. A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

   Click the down-arrow to open the drop-down list, then select No.

Note: There are additional font attributes you can experiment with that are not listed above, for example, underline style.

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The following font types are available in Advanced Graph Assistant.

Font Type Names
Arial	Arial Black	Arial Narrow	Book Antigua
Bookman Old Style	Bookshelf symbol 7	Century Gothic	Comic Sans MS
Courier New	Default	Dialog	Dialog Input
Garamond	Georgia	Heattenschweiler	Impact
Lucida Bright	Lucida Console	Lucida Handwriting	Lucida Sans
Lucida Sans Typewriter	Lucida Sans Unicode	Mariett	Microsoft Sans Serif
Monospaced	Monotype Corsiva	MS Outlook	MS Reference Sans Serif
MS Reference Specialty	Palatino Linotype	Sans serif	Serif
Symbol	Tahoma	Times New Roman	Trebuchet MS
Verdana	Webdings	Wingdings	Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3	ZWAdobeF

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. You can apply line stroke styles to X-axis and Y-axis line objects:
   1. For X-axis line objects, select the Major gridlines or Minor gridlines form in the Ordinal axis folder.
   2. For Y-axis line objects, select the Major gridlines, Minor gridlines, or Reference lines form in the Y1 axis folder.

   The selected chart editing form appears below the graph preview area.

3. Click the Value column area to the right of line stroke style in the Property column. A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.
4. Click the down arrow to open the drop-down list.
5. Select one of the available line stroke styles. That style appears for the selected line object in the graph preview area.

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1. Click the Data Selection tab.
2. Click the Chart icon in the query pane below the Available Fields tab.

   or

   Click anywhere on the chart displayed in the graph preview area.

   The Chart Properties form is displayed below the graph preview area.

3. Click the Value column to the right of the Custom Height or Custom Width row in the Property column.
4. Edit the height or width of the graph by editing the numeric value.

   The changes are reflected in the graph preview area.

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. In the Y1 axis folder, click the General form.

   The General Y-axis chart editing form appears below the graph preview area.

3. Do one of the following:
   • To hide the display of the Y-axis line, click the Value column to the right of the Show Y-axis line row in the Property column.
   • To hide the display of Y-axis labels, click the Value column to the right of the Y-axis labels row in the Property column.

   A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

4. Click the down-arrow to open the drop-down list.
5. Click No to hide the display of the selected item (Y-axis line or label).

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1. Click the Chart editor tab.
2. In the Ordinal axis folder:
   • Click the General form to hide the X-axis line.
   • Click the Labels form to hide the X-axis label.

   The selected X-axis chart editing form appears below the graph preview area.

3. Do one of the following:
   • To hide the display of the X-axis line, in the General form, click the Value column to the right of the Display row in the Property column.
   • To hide the display of the X-axis label, in the Labels form, click the Value column to the right of the X-axis labels row in the Property column.

   A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

4. Click the down-arrow to open the drop-down list.
5. Click No to hide the display of the selected item (X-axis line or label).

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When creating pie charts, you have options for displaying the labels used to represent the individual pie slices of your chart. You can select these display options in the Chart Editor of Advanced Graph Assistant to better convey the meaning of the data in your pie chart.

As shown in the following image, you can select from: Absolute Value, Percent Value, Name, Name and Percent Value, Name and Absolute Value, Absolute and Percent Value, or Name, Absolute, and Percent Value.

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