Bar 2D chart specification sheet

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Bar 2D Chart Specification Sheet
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Bar 2D chart looks as under:

Sample XML / JSON for Bar 2D chart:

XML
JSON

<chart caption='Monthly Revenue' xAxisName='Month' yAxisName='Revenue' numberPrefix='$' showValues='0'>

   <set label='Jan' value='420000' />
   <set label='Feb' value='910000' />
   <set label='Mar' value='720000' />
   <set label='Apr' value='550000' />
   <set label='May' value='810000' />
   <set label='Jun' value='510000' />
   <set label='Jul' value='680000' />
   <set label='Aug' value='620000' />
   <set label='Sep' value='610000' />
   <set label='Oct' value='490000' />
   <set label='Nov' value='530000' />
   <set label='Dec' value='330000' />

   <trendLines>
      <line startValue='700000' color='009933' displayvalue='Target' /> 
   </trendLines>

   <styles>

      <definition>
         <style name='CanvasAnim' type='animation' param='_xScale' start= '0' duration='1' />
      </definition>

      <application>
         <apply toObject='Canvas' styles='CanvasAnim' />
      </application>   

   </styles>

</chart>

{
  "chart":{
    "caption":"Monthly Revenue",
    "xaxisname":"Month",
    "yaxisname":"Revenue",
    "numberprefix":"$",
    "showvalues":"0"
  },
  "data":[{
      "label":"Jan",
      "value":"420000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Feb",
      "value":"910000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Mar",
      "value":"720000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Apr",
      "value":"550000"
    },
    {
      "label":"May",
      "value":"810000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Jun",
      "value":"510000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Jul",
      "value":"680000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Aug",
      "value":"620000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Sep",
      "value":"610000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Oct",
      "value":"490000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Nov",
      "value":"530000"
    },
    {
      "label":"Dec",
      "value":"330000"
    }
  ],
  "trendlines":{
    "line":[{
        "startvalue":"700000",
        "color":"009933",
        "displayvalue":"Target"
      }
    ]
  },
  "styles": {
    "definition": [
      {
        "name": "CanvasAnim",
        "type": "animation",
        "param": "_xScale",
        "start": "0",
        "duration": "1"
      }
    ],
    "application": [
      {
        "toobject": "Canvas",
        "styles": "CanvasAnim"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Object Name	Description	Features Supported	Animation Parameters Supported
BACKGROUND	BACKGROUND refers to the entire background of the chart.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
CANVAS	In 2D Charts, CANVAS refers to the area in which the actual chart is plotted. It is represented by a bounded rectangle. In 3D charts, it refers to the 3D base on which the columns are built.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
CAPTION	CAPTION refers to the heading of the chart.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
DATALABELS	DATALABELS refer to the x-axis labels of the data.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
DATAPLOT	DATAPLOT refers to the actual plot of the chart. For example, in Column 2D chart, columns are referred to as DATAPLOT. In Pie chart, it's the pies. In Bubble chart, it's the bubbles and so on.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
DATAVALUES	DATAVALUES refer to the plot values i.e., value of each data (line, column, bar, pie etc.), which is displayed beside the data plot.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
DIVLINES	DIVLINES are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifies a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _yScale
SUBCAPTION	SUBCAPTION refers to the sub-heading of the chart.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
TOOLTIP	TOOLTIP refers to the tool tip shown when the mouse is hovered over the data plots.	Font
TRENDLINES	TRENDLINES refer to horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _xScale _yScale
TRENDVALUES	TRENDVALUES refer to the display values of trend-lines (if any).	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
VGRID	VGRID refers to vertical color bands between two successive vertical divisional lines.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _xScale _yScale
VLINES	VLINES are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks. In case of bar charts, they are horizontal and run through the width of chart.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale
VLINELABELS	VLINELABELS refer to any labels that have been created for vertical separator lines.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha
XAXISNAME	XAXISNAME refers to the x-axis title of the chart.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
YAXISNAME	YAXISNAME refers to the y-axis title of the chart.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
YAXISVALUES	YAXISVALUES refer to the limit values or divisional line values, which are displayed along the y-axis of the chart.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y
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These attributes let you control a variety of functional elements on the chart. For example, you can opt to show/hide data labels, data values, y-axis values. You can also set chart limits and extended properties.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
animation	Boolean	0/1	This attribute gives you the option to control animation in your charts. If you do not want to animate any part of the chart, set this as 0.
palette	Number	1-5	FusionCharts XT offers the concept of Color Palettes. Each chart has 5 pre-defined color palettes which you can choose from. Each palette renders the chart in a different color theme. Valid values are 1-5.
paletteColors	String	List of hex color codes separated by comma	While the palette attribute allows to select a palette theme that applies to chart background, canvas, font and tool-tips, it does not change the colors of data items (i.e., column, line, pie etc.). Using paletteColors attribute, you can specify your custom list of hex colors for the data items. The list of colors have to be separated by comma e.g., <chart paletteColors='FF0000,0372AB,FF5904...'>. The chart will cycle through the list of specified colors and then render the data plot accordingly. To use the same set of colors throughout all your charts in a web application, you can store the list of palette colors in your application globally and then provide the same in each chart XML.
showAboutMenuItem	Boolean	0/1	Setting this to 1 shows up a custom context menu in the chart, which can be customized to show your text and can be linked to your Url. For e.g., you can set the context menu of the chart to include "About your company name" and then link to your company home page. By default, the chart shows "About FusionCharts" when right clicked.
aboutMenuItemLabel	String		The menu item label for the custom context menu item.
aboutMenuItemLink	String	URL	Link for the custom context menu item. You can specify the link in FusionCharts Link format to be able to open the same in new window, pop-ups, frames or as JavaScript links.
showLabels	Boolean	0/1	It sets the configuration whether the x-axis labels will be displayed or not.
labelStep	Number	1 or above	By default, all the labels are displayed on the chart. However, if you've a set of streaming data (like name of months or days of week), you can opt to show every n-th label for better clarity. This attribute just lets you do so. When a value greater than 1 (n) is set to this attribute, the first label from left and every label at the n-th position from left will be displayed. e.g., a chart showing data for 12 months and set with labelStep='3' will show labels for January, April, July and October. The rest of the labels will be skipped.
maxLabelWidthPercent	Number	1-100	Restricts the maximum length of data labels in terms of percentage of the charts width that the data labels can occupy. If a data label is longer than the specified percentage width then it will either be wrapped or get truncated, subject to availability of vertical space. Unnecessary space is not reserved for the data labels, in case all of them are shorter than the specified maximum width.
useEllipsesWhenOverflow Since v 3.2.1	Boolean	0/1	This attribute lets you set whether the overflowing data labels will be truncated by adding ellipses.
showValues	Boolean	0/1	Sets the configuration whether data values will be displayed along with the data plot on chart.
placeValuesInside	Boolean	0/1	If you've opted to show data values, you can show them inside the columns using this attribute. By default, the data values show outside the column.
showYAxisValues	Boolean	0/1	FusionCharts XT y-axis is divided into vertical sections using div (divisional) lines. Each div line assumes a value based on its position. Using this attribute you can set whether to show those div line (y-axis) values or not. This attribute shows or hides the y-axis divisional lines and limits. The values of showLimits and showDivLineValues if specified explicitly overrides the value of this attribute.
showLimits	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show chart limit values.If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value.
showDivLineValues	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show div line values. If not specified showYAxisValues attribute overrides this value.
yAxisValuesStep	Number	1 or above	By default, all div lines show their values. However, you can opt to display every x(th) div line value using this attribute.
showShadow	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show bar shadows.
adjustDiv	Boolean	0/1	FusionCharts XT automatically tries to adjust divisional lines and limit values based on the data provided. However, if you want to set your explicit lower and upper limit values and number of divisional lines, first set this attribute to false. That will disable automatic adjustment of divisional lines.
rotateXAxisName	Boolean	0/1	If you do not wish to rotate x-axis name, set this as 0. It specifically comes to use when you've special characters (UTF8) in your x-axis name that do not show up in rotated mode.
xAxisNameWidth	Number	(In Pixels)	If you opt to not rotate x-axis name, you can choose a maximum width that will be applied to x-axis name.
clickURL	String		The entire chart can now act as a hotspot. Use this URL to define the hotspot link for the chart. The link can be specified in FusionCharts Link format.
defaultAnimation	Boolean	0/1	By default, each chart animates some of its elements. If you wish to switch off the default animation patterns, you can set this attribute to 0. It can be particularly useful when you want to define your own animation patterns using STYLE feature.
yAxisMinValue	Number		This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.
yAxisMaxValue	Number		This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the chart. If you don't specify this value, it is automatically calculated by FusionCharts XT based on the data provided by you.
setAdaptiveYMin	Boolean	0/1	This attribute lets you set whether the y-axis lower limit will be 0 (in case of all positive values on chart) or should the y-axis lower limit adapt itself to a different figure based on values provided to the chart.
centerXaxisName Since v 3.2.2	Boolean	0/1	This attribute when set to '1', allows you to align the x-axis name with respect to the height of the chart. When set to '0', the x-axis name is aligned with respect to the height of the canvas.
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Using these attributes, you can set the various headings and titles of chart like caption, sub-caption, x-axis and y-axis names etc.

Attribute Name	Type	Description
caption	String	Caption of the chart.
subCaption	String	Sub-caption of the chart.
xAxisName	String	X-Axis Title of the Chart.
yAxisName	String	Y-Axis Title of the chart.
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The following attributes let you configure chart cosmetics like background color, background alpha, canvas color & alpha etc.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
showBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show a border around the chart or not.
borderColor	Color		Border color of the chart.
borderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Border thickness of the chart.
borderAlpha	Number	0-100	Border alpha of the chart.
bgColor	Color		This attribute sets the background color for the chart. You can set any hex color code as the value of this attribute. To specify a gradient as background color, separate the hex color codes of each color in the gradient using comma. Example: FF5904,FFFFFF. Remember to remove # and any spaces in between. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details.
bgAlpha	Number	0-100	Sets the alpha (transparency) for the background. If you've opted for gradient background, you need to set a list of alpha(s) separated by comma. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details.
bgRatio	Number	0-100	If you've opted for a gradient background, this attribute lets you set the ratio of each color constituent. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details.
bgAngle	Number	0-360	Sets the angle of the background color, in case of a gradient. See Advanced charting > Using Gradients page for more details.
bgImage or bgSWF - deprecated	String		To place any image (JPG/PNG/GIF) or Flash movie (SWF) as background of the chart, enter the (path and) name of the background image or SWF file. It should be in the same domain as the chart. Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts.
bgImageAlpha or bgSWFAlpha - deprecated	Number	0-100	Helps you specify alpha for the loaded background image or Flash movie. Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts.
bgImageDisplayMode Since v3.2.2	String	stretch, tile, fit, fill, center, none	Helps you specify the mode in which the background image is to be displayed. Stretch - expands the image to fit the entire chart area, without maintaining original image constraints Tile - the image is repeated as a pattern on the entire chart area Fit - fits the image proportionately on the chart area Fill -proportionately fills the entire chart area with the image Center - the image is positioned at the center of the chart area None - Default mode. None of the above modes are applied For more details click here.
bgImageVAlign Since v3.2.2	String	top, middle, bottom	Helps you to vertically align the background image.
bgImageHAlign Since v3.2.2	String	left, middle, right	Helps you to horizontally align the background image.
bgImageScale Since v3.2.2	Number	0-300	Helps you magnify the background image.This attribute will only work when the attribute bgImageDisplayMode is set to none, center or tile.
canvasBgColor	Color		Sets Canvas background color. For Gradient effect, enter colors separated by comma.
canvasBgAlpha	Number		Sets alpha for Canvas Background. For gradient, enter alpha list separated by commas.
canvasBgRatio	Number	0-100	Helps you specify canvas background ratio for gradients.
canvasBgAngle	Number		Helps you specify canvas background angle in case of gradient.
canvasBorderColor	Color		Lets you specify canvas border color.
canvasBorderThickness	Number	0-5	Lets you specify canvas border thickness.
canvasBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Lets you control transparency of canvas border.
showVLineLabelBorder	Boolean	0/1	If you've opted to show a label for any of your vLines in the chart, you can collectively configure whether to show border for all such labels using this attribute. If you want to show label border for just a particular vLine, you can over-ride this value by specifying border configuration for that specific vLine.
logoURL	String	URL	You can load an external logo (JPEG/PNG/SWF) on the chart once it has rendered. This attribute lets you specify the URL of the same. Owing to Flash Player security settings, you can only specify logo that are on the same sub-domain as that of the SWF file of the chart.
logoPosition	String	TL, TR, BL, BR, CC	Where to position the logo on the chart: TL - Top-left TR - Top-right BR - Bottom right BL - Bottom left CC - Center of screen
logoAlpha	Number	0-100	Once the logo has loaded on the chart, you can configure its opacity using this attribute.
logoScale	Number	0-300	You can also change the scale of externally loaded logo at run-time by specifying a value for this parameter.
logoLink	String	URL	If you want to link the logo to an external URL, specify the link in this attribute. The link can be in FusionCharts Link format, allowing you to link to new windows, pop-ups, frames etc.
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These attributes let you configure how your plot (columns, lines, area, pie or any data that you're plotting) will appear on the chart.

If the plots can show borders, you can control the border properties using the attributes listed below. Or, if they support gradient fills, you can again configure various properties of the gradient using these attributes.

Various other controls over plot cosmetics can be attained using this set of attributes.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
useRoundEdges	Boolean	0/1	If you wish to plot bars with round edges and fill them with a glass effect gradient, set this attribute to 1. The following functionalities will not work when this attribute is set to 1: showShadow attribute doesn't work any more. If you want to remove shadow from bars, you'll have to over-ride the shadow with a new shadow style (applied to DATAPLOT) with alpha as 0. Plot fill properties like gradient color, angle etc. will not work any more, as the colors for gradient are now calculated by the chart itself. Plot border properties also do not work in this mode. Also, you cannot render the border as dash in this mode.
showPlotBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether the column, area, pie etc. border will show up.
plotBorderColor	Color		Color for column, area, pie border
plotBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha for column, area, pie border
plotBorderThickness	Number	0-5 (Pixels)	Thickness for column, area, pie border
plotBorderDashed	Boolean	0/1	Whether the plot border should appear as dashed.
plotBorderDashLen	Number	In Pixels	If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.
plotBorderDashGap	Number	In Pixels	If plot border is to appear as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between two dash.
plotFillAngle	Number	0-360	If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill angle for gradient.
plotFillRatio	Number	0-100	If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the ratio for gradient.
plotFillAlpha	Number	0-100	If you've opted to fill the plot (column, area etc.) as gradient, this attribute lets you set the fill alpha for gradient.
plotGradientColor	Color	Hex Color	You can globally add a gradient color to the entire plot of chart by specifying the second color as this attribute. For example, if you've specified individual colors for your bars and now you want a gradient that ends in white. You need to specify FFFFFF (white) as this color and the chart will now draw plots as gradient.
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Using this set of attributes, you can control the properties of divisional lines, zero plane and alternate color bands.

Divisional Lines are horizontal or vertical lines running through the canvas. Each divisional line signifies a smaller unit of the entire axis thus aiding the users in interpreting the chart.

The zero plane is a 2D/3D plane that signifies the 0 position on the chart. If there are no negative numbers on the chart, you won't see a visible zero plane.

Alternate color bands are colored blocks between two successive divisional lines.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
numDivLines	Number	Numeric value > 0	Number of horizontal axis division lines that you want on the chart.
divLineColor	Color		Color for divisional lines.
divLineThickness	Number	1-5	Thickness of divisional lines.
divLineAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha of divisional lines.
divLineIsDashed	Boolean	0/1	Whether the divisional lines should display as dash.
divLineDashLen	Number	In Pixels	If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.
divLineDashGap	Number	In Pixels	If the divisional lines are to be displayed as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each gap between dash.
zeroPlaneColor	Color		Color for the Zero Plane. Zero Plane is the line/plane that appears at 0 y-position on canvas, when negative data is being shown on the chart.
zeroPlaneThickness	Number	In Pixels	Thickness of zero plane.
zeroPlaneAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha of zero plane.
showZeroPlaneValue Since v 3.2.2 - SR3	Boolean	0/1	Allows you to show or hide the value on which the zero plane exists on the y-axis. By default, the value is displayed. This attribute is not supported in JavaScript charts.
showAlternateVGridColor	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show alternate colored vertical grid bands.
alternateVGridColor	Color		Color of the alternate vertical grid bands.
alternateVGridAlpha	Number		Alpha (transparency) of the alternate vertical grid bands.
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FusionCharts XT offers you a lot of options to format your numbers on the chart.

Using the attributes below, you can control a myriad of options like:

Formatting of commas and decimals
Number prefixes and suffixes
Decimal places to which the numbers will round to
Scaling of numbers based on a user defined scale
Custom number input formats

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
formatNumber	Boolean	0/1	This configuration determines whether the numbers displayed on the chart will be formatted using commas, e.g., 40,000 if formatNumber='1' and 40000 if formatNumber= '0'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
formatNumberScale	Boolean	0/1	Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number after truncating and rounding it - e.g., if formatNumberScale is set to 1, 1043 will become 1.04K (with decimals set to 2 places). Same with numbers in millions - an M will be added at the end. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.
defaultNumberScale	String		The default unit of the numbers that you're providing to the chart. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.
numberScaleUnit	String		Unit of each block of the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.
numberScaleValue	String		Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Number Scaling page.
scaleRecursively Since v 3.2.2 - SR3	Boolean	0/1	Whether to scale the number recursively? For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.
maxScaleRecursion Since v 3.2.2 - SR3	Number		How many recursions to complete during recursive scaling? -1 completes the entire set of recursion. For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.
scaleSeparator Since v 3.2.2 - SR3	String		What character to use to separate the scales that generated after recursion? For more details see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Recursive Number Scaling page.
numberPrefix	String	Character	Using this attribute, you could add prefix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all dollars figure on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' $' to show like $40000, $50000. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
numberSuffix	String	Character	Using this attribute, you could add a suffix to all the numbers visible on the graph. For example, to represent all figure quantified as per annum on the chart, you could specify this attribute to ' /a' to show like 40000/a, 50000/a. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
decimalSeparator	String	Character	This option helps you specify the character to be used as the decimal separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
thousandSeparator	String	Character	This option helps you specify the character to be used as the thousands separator in a number. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
thousandSeparatorPosition Since v 3.2.2 - SR3	Number		This option helps you specify the position of the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
inDecimalSeparator	String	Character	In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the decimal separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page.
inThousandSeparator	String	Character	In some countries, commas are used as decimal separators and dots as thousand separators. In XML, if you specify such values, it will give an error while converting to number. So, FusionCharts XT accepts the input decimal and thousand separator from user, so that it can convert it accordingly into the required format. This attribute lets you input the thousand separator. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Input Number Formatting page.
decimals	Number	0-10	Number of decimal places to which all numbers on the chart will be rounded to. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
forceDecimals	Boolean	0/1	Whether to add 0 padding at the end of decimal numbers. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all the numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
forceYAxisValueDecimals Since v 3.2	Boolean	0/1	Whether to forcefully attach decimal places to all y-axis values. For example, If you limit the maximum number of decimal digits to 2, a number like 55.345 will be rounded to 55.34. This does not mean that all y-axis numbers will be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places. For instance 55 will not be displayed as 55.00 and 55.1 will not become 55.10. In order to have fixed number of decimal places attached to all y-axis numbers, set this attribute to 1. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
yAxisValueDecimals	Number	0-10	If you've opted to not adjust div lines, you can specify the div line values decimal precision using this attribute. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting > Basics page.
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Using the attributes below, you can define the generic font properties for all the text on the chart. These attributes allow you a high level control over font properties.

If you intend to specify font properties for individual chart elements (like Caption, sub-caption etc.), you'll need to use the Styles feature of FusionCharts XT. Using Styles, you can also specify advanced font properties like Bold, Italics, HTML Mode etc.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
baseFont	String	Font Name	This attribute lets you set the font face (family) of all the text (data labels, values etc.) on chart. If you specify outCnvBaseFont attribute also, then this attribute controls only the font face of text within the chart canvas bounds.
baseFontSize	Number	0-72	This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.
baseFontColor	Color		This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie on the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.
outCnvBaseFont	String	Font Name	This attribute sets the base font family of the chart font which lies outside the canvas i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font name provided here.
outCnvBaseFontSize	Number	0-72	This attribute sets the base font size of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font size provided here.
outCnvBaseFontColor	Color		This attribute sets the base font color of the chart i.e., all the values and the names in the chart which lie outside the canvas will be displayed using the font color provided here.
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These attributes let you control the tool tip. You can set the background color, border color, separator character and few other details.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
showToolTip	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show tool tip on chart.
toolTipBgColor	Color		Background Color for tool tip.
toolTipBorderColor	Color		Border Color for tool tip.
toolTipSepChar	String		The character specified as the value of this attribute separates the name and value displayed in tool tip.
showToolTipShadow	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show shadow for tool-tips on the chart.
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The following attributes help you control chart margins and paddings.

FusionCharts XT allows you manually customize the padding of various elements on the chart to allow advanced manipulation and control over chart visualization. Padding in FusionCharts XT is always defined in pixels, unless the attribute itself suggests some other scale (like plotSpacePercent).

You can also define the chart margins. Chart Margins refer to the empty space left on the top, bottom, left and right of the chart. That means, FusionCharts XT will not plot anything in that space.

It's not necessary for you to specify any padding/margin values. FusionCharts XT automatically assumes the best values for the same, if you do not specify the same.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
captionPadding	Number	In Pixels	This attribute lets you control the space (in pixels) between the sub-caption and top of the chart canvas. If the sub-caption is not defined, it controls the space between caption and top of chart canvas. If neither caption, nor sub-caption is defined, this padding does not come into play.
xAxisNamePadding	Number	In Pixels	Using this, you can set the distance between the x-axis title and left end of data labels (or canvas, if data labels are not to be shown).
yAxisNamePadding	Number	In Pixels	Using this, you can set the distance between the y-axis title and the start of y-axis values (or canvas, if the y-axis values are not to be shown).
yAxisValuesPadding	Number	In Pixels	This attribute helps you set the vertical space between the canvas bottom edge and the y-axis values. This is particularly useful, when you want more space between your canvas and y-axis values.
labelPadding	Number	In Pixels	This attribute sets the horizontal space between the labels and canvas left edge. If you want more space between the canvas and the x-axis labels, you can use this attribute to control it.
valuePadding	Number	In Pixels	It sets the horizontal space between the end of bars and start of value textboxes. This basically helps you control the space you want between your bars and the value textboxes.
plotSpacePercent	Number	0-80 (In Percent)	On a bar chart, there is spacing defined between two bars. By default, the spacing is set to 20% of canvas width. If you intend to increase or decrease the spacing between bars, you can do so using this attribute. For example, if you wanted all bars to stick to each other without any space in between, you can set plotSpacePercent to 0. Similarly, if you want very thin bars, you can set plotSpacePercent to its max value of 80.
chartLeftMargin	Number	In Pixels	Amount of empty space that you want to put on the left side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartRightMargin	Number	In Pixels	Amount of empty space that you want to put on the right side of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartTopMargin	Number	In Pixels	Amount of empty space that you want to put on the top of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
chartBottomMargin	Number	In Pixels	Amount of empty space that you want to put on the bottom of your chart. Nothing is rendered in this space.
canvasLeftMargin	Number	In Pixels	This attribute lets you control the space between the start of chart canvas and the start (x) of chart. In case of 2D charts, the canvas is the visible rectangular box. In case of 3D charts, the canvas box is the imaginary box around the 3D canvas. Using this attribute, you can control the amount of empty space between the chart left side and canvas left side. By default, FusionCharts XT automatically calculates this space depending on the elements to be placed on the chart. However, if you want to over-ride this value with a higher value, you can use this attribute to specify the same. Please note that you cannot specify a margin lower than what has been calculated by the chart. This attribute is particularly useful, when you've multiple charts placed in a page and want all their canvas start position to align with each other - so in such a case, you can set same margin value (a value large enough that it doesn't get rejected by chart owing to it being lower than the calculated value) for all such charts in the page.
canvasRightMargin	Number	In Pixels	Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between end of canvas and end of chart.
canvasTopMargin	Number	In Pixels	Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between top of canvas and top of chart.
canvasBottomMargin	Number	In Pixels	Like canvasLeftMargin, this attribute lets you set the space between bottom of canvas and bottom of chart.
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Each <set> element (child of <chart> element) represents a set of data which is to be plotted on the graph and determines a set of data which will appear on the chart.

For a single series chart, a typical <set> element will look like:

<set label='January' value='17400' />

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
label	String		This attribute determines the label for the data item. The label appears on the x-axis of chart.
value	Number		Numerical value for the data item. This value will be plotted on the chart.
displayValue	String		If instead of the numerical value of this data, you wish to display a custom string value, you can specify the same here. Examples are annotation for a data item etc.
color	Color	Hex Code	If you want to define your own colors for the data items on chart, use this attribute to specify color for the data item. This attribute accepts hex color codes without #.
link	String		You can define links for individual data items. That enables the end user to click on data items (columns, lines, bars etc.) and drill down to other pages. To define the link for data items, use the link attribute. You can define links that open in same window, new window, pop-up window or frames. Please see "Drill Down Charts > FusionCharts Link format" for more information. Also, you'll need to URL Encode all the special characters (like ? and &) present in the link.
toolText	String		By default, FusionCharts XT shows the data item name and value as tool tip text for that data item. But, if you want to display more information for the data item as tool tip, you can use this attribute to specify the same.
showLabel	Boolean	0/1	You can individually opt to show/hide labels of individual data items using this attribute.
showValue	Boolean	0/1	You can individually opt to show/hide values of individual data items using this attribute.
dashed	Boolean	0/1	Whether the border of this data item should appear as dashed. This is particularly useful when you want to highlight a data (such as forecast or trend etc.).
alpha	Number	0-100	This attribute determines the transparency of a data item. The range for this attribute is 0 to 100. 0 means complete transparency (the data item wont be shown on the graph) and 100 means opaque.
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vLines are vertical separator lines that help you separate blocks of data. These lines run through the height of the chart, thereby segregating data into different blocks.

For example, if you're plotting a chart showing monthly sales from October 2005-Mar 2006, you might want to plot a vertical separator line between Dec 2005 and January 2006 to indicate end of year.

The vertical lines are used as under:

<set label='Oct 2005' value='35456' />
<set label='Nov 2005' value='28556' />
<set label='Dec 2005' value='36556' />
<vLine color='FF5904' thickness='2' />
<set label='Jan 2006' value='45456' />
<set label='Feb 2006' value='35456' />

You can configure the cosmetics of vertical separator lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
color	Color	Hex Color	This attribute defines the color of vertical separator line.
thickness	Number	In Pixels	Thickness in pixels of the vertical separator line.
alpha	Number	0-100	Alpha of the vertical separator line.
dashed	Boolean	0/1	Whether the vertical separator line should appear as dashed.
dashLen	Number	In Pixels	If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash.
dashGap	Number	In Pixels	If the vertical separator line is to appear as dashed, this attribute defines the length of dash gap.
label	String		Label for the vertical separator line, if to be shown.
showLabelBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show a border around the vLine label.
linePosition	Number	0-1	Helps configure the position of vertical line i.e., if a vLine is to be plotted between 2 points Jan and Feb, user can set any position between 0 and 1 to indicate the relative position of vLine between these two points (0 means Jan and 1 means Feb). By default, it’s 0.5 to show in between the points.
labelPosition	Number	0-1	Helps configure the position of the vLine label by setting a relative position between 0 and 1. In vertical charts, 0 means top of canvas and 1 means bottom. In horizontal charts, 0 means left of canvas and 1 means right.
labelHAlign	String	left, center, right	Horizontal anchor point for the alignment of vLine label.
labelVAlign	String	top, middle, bottom	Vertical anchor point for the alignment of vLine label.
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Using the <trendLines> element (and children <line> elements), you can define trend lines on the chart.

Trend lines are horizontal lines spanning the chart canvas which aid in interpretation of data with respect to some pre-determined value. For example, if you are plotting sales data of current year, you might want to add previous year's average monthly sales as trend indicator for ease of comparison.

For each trend line on the chart, you need to define a <line> element under <trendLines> element as under:

<trendLines>
  <line startValue='895' color='FF0000' displayValue='Average' />
</trendLines>

You can control the cosmetic and functional properties of trend-lines using the following attributes:

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
startValue	Number	Numeric Value	The starting value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the startValue will be 102.
endValue	Number	Numeric Value	The ending y-axis value for the trendline. Say, if you want to plot a slanted trendline from value 102 to 109, the endValue will be 109. If you do not specify a value for endValue, it will automatically assume the same value as startValue.
displayValue	String		If you want to display a string caption for the trend line by its side, you can use this attribute. Example: displayValue='Last Month High'. When you don't supply this attribute, it automatically takes the value of startValue.
color	String	Hex Code	Color of the trend line and its associated text.
isTrendZone	Boolean	0/1	Whether the trend will display a line, or a zone (filled colored rectangle).
showOnTop	Boolean	0/1	Whether the trend line/zone will be displayed over data plots or under them.
thickness	Number	In Pixels	If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define the thickness of trend line.
alpha	Number	0-100	Alpha of the trend line.
dashed	Boolean	0/1	If you've opted to show the trend as a line, this attribute lets you define whether the trend line will appear as dashed.
dashLen	Number	In Pixels	If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash.
dashGap	Number	In Pixels	If you've opted to show trend line as dash, this attribute lets you control the length of each dash gap.
toolText	String		Custom tool-text for this trendline/zone.
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The chart also accepts the following features, which have not been discussed here:

Exporting Chart: All the attributes pertinent to exporting of charts as images or pdfs are discussed in the Exporting as Image/PDF section.
Exporting Chart Data: All the attributes pertinent to exporting of chart data are discussed in the Exporting Chart Data section.
Styles: All the attributes pertinent to Styles are discussed in the FusionCharts XT Styles section.