Radar Chart Specification Sheet

Radar Chart Specification Sheet
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Chart	Data	Others
Chart Image Chart Objects Functional Attributes Titles and Axis Names Chart Cosmetics Anchors Divisional Lines/Grids Legend Tool-tip Paddings and Margins	Sample Data <categories> element <category> element <dataset> element <set> element Plot Cosmetics	Number Formatting Font Properties

Radar chart looks as under:

Sample XML/JSON for Radar chart:

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JSON

<chart caption='Radar Chart' anchorAlpha='0'>
   <categories>
      <category label='Index 1' />
      <category label='Index 2' />
      <category label='Index 3' />
      <category label='Index 4' />
      <category label='Index 5' />
      <category label='Index 6' />
      <category label='Index 7' />
      <category label='Index 8' />
      <category label='Index 9' />
      <category label='Index 10' />
      <category label='Index 11' />
   </categories>
   <dataset seriesName='Series 1'>
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='7' />
      <set value='8' />
      <set value='8' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='7' />
      <set value='8' />
   </dataset>
   <dataset seriesName='Series 2'>
      <set value='5' />
      <set value='3' />
      <set value='2' />
      <set value='4' />
      <set value='5' />
      <set value='9' />
      <set value='5' />
      <set value='3' />
      <set value='2' />
      <set value='4' />
      <set value='5' />
   </dataset>   
</chart>

{
  "chart":{
    "caption":"Radar Chart",
    "anchoralpha":"0"
  },
  "categories":[{
      "category":[{
          "label":"Index 1"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 2"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 3"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 4"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 5"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 6"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 7"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 8"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 9"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 10"
        },
        {
          "label":"Index 11"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "dataset":[{
      "seriesname":"Series 1",
      "data":[{
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"7"
        },
        {
          "value":"8"
        },
        {
          "value":"8"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"7"
        },
        {
          "value":"8"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "seriesname":"Series 2",
      "data":[{
          "value":"5"
        },
        {
          "value":"3"
        },
        {
          "value":"2"
        },
        {
          "value":"4"
        },
        {
          "value":"5"
        },
        {
          "value":"9"
        },
        {
          "value":"5"
        },
        {
          "value":"3"
        },
        {
          "value":"2"
        },
        {
          "value":"4"
        },
        {
          "value":"5"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Object Name	Description	Features Supported	Animation Parameters Supported
ANCHORS	On Radar charts, ANCHORS (or marker points) are polygons which appear at the joint of two consecutive lines or area points. These are indicators to show the position of data points. The anchors handle tool tips and links for the data points.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
BACKGROUND	BACKGROUND refers to the entire background of the chart.	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 is the pies. In Bubble chart, it is the bubbles and so on.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _yScale
DATAVALUES	DATAVALUES refer to the plot values, that is, 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
LEGEND	LEGEND is the object in which the series names of all data-sets show up.	Animation Font Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha
RADAR	RADAR refers to the outer radar drawing over which the plot is drawn.	Animation Shadow Glow Bevel Blur	_alpha _x _y _xScale _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 mouse is hovered over the data plots.	Font
YAXISVALUES	YAXISVALUES refers 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 or 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 lets you set the configuration whether the chart should appear in an animated fashion. If you do not want to animate any part of the chart, set this as 0.
palette	Number	1-5	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 (that is, 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. For example, <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 example, 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 have 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 attributes just lets you do so. It allows to display every n(th) x-axis label.
showValues	Boolean	0/1	Sets the configuration whether data values would be displayed along with the data plot on chart.
showYAxisValues	Boolean	0/1	The y-axis of the chart 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. 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 overrides this attribute.
showDivLineValues	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show div line values. If not specified showYAxisValues overrides this attribute.
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.
adjustDiv	Boolean	0/1	The chart 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 would disable automatic adjustment of divisional lines.
showPrintMenuItem	Boolean	0/1	When you right click on the chart it shows a context menu. This attribute allows you to show or hide the "Print" option in the context menu.
showTooltipforWrappedLabels	Boolean	0/1	When the labels of the chart are too lengthy, the chart truncates them and displays a part of the label. In this situation, this attribute shows a tooltip displaying the complete label when the mouse is hovered on the shortened labels.
unescapeLinks	Boolean	0/1	Internally the chart decodes a Url that you set as link. Before invoking the link it again encodes the Url. If you are passing multilingual characters via a Url or do not want this decode-encode mechanism to be handled by chart you can set,unescapeLinks='0'.
showZeroPlaneValue	Boolean	0/1	Allows you to show or hide the value of the zero plane.
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 Styles feature.
yAxisMinValue	Number		This attribute helps you explicitly set the lower limit of the chart. If you do not specify this value, it is automatically calculated by the chart based on the data provided by you.
yAxisMaxValue	Number		This attribute helps you explicitly set the upper limit of the chart. If you do not specify this value, it is automatically calculated by the chart based on the data provided by you.
radarRadius	Number	In Pixels	If you want to explicitly specify a radius for the radar chart, use this attribute. Otherwise, the chart will automatically calculate the best-fit radius.
setAdaptiveYMin	Boolean	0/1	This attribute lets you set whether the y-axis lower limit would 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.
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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.
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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 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 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 for more details.
bgAngle	Number	0-360	Angle of the background color, in case of a gradient. See Advanced Charting > Using Gradients for more details.
bgImage Since v3.2.1 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 Since v3.2.1 or bgSWFAlpha - deprecated	Number	0-100	Helps you specify the opacity for the loaded background image or Flash movie. Loading of Flash movie is deprecated and is not supported by JavaScript charts.
bgImageDisplayMode Since v3.2.1	String	stretch, tile, fit, fill, center, none	Helps you specify the mode in which the background image is to be displayed. Stretch - disproportionately sets the full image on the chart area 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 v3.2.1	String	left, center, right	Helps you to vertically align the background image.
bgImageHalign Since v3.2.1	String	left, center, right	Helps you to horizontally align the background image.
bgImageScale Since v3.2.1	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.
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 sub-domain as 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 are plotting) would 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
showPlotBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether the radar plot border would show up.
plotBorderColor	Color		Color for radar plot border
plotBorderThickness	Number	0-5 (Pixels)	Thickness for radar plot border
plotBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha for radar plot border
plotFillAlpha	Number	0-100	Lets you set the fill alpha for radar plot.
plotFillColor	Color		Fill Color for the radar plot(hex code)
showRadarBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show radar outside border.
radarBorderColor	Color	Hex Code	Border color of radar outline.
radarBorderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Border thickness of radar outline.
radarBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Border alpha of radar outline.
radarFillColor	Color	Hex Code	Fill color for the radar.
radarFillAlpha	Number	0-100	Fill alpha for the radar.
radarSpikeColor	Color	Hex Code	Color for radar spikes. Radar spikes are the lines that emanate from the center to the vertex of radar.
radarSpikeThickness	Number	In Pixels	Thickness for radar spikes. Radar spikes are the lines that emanate from the center to the vertex of radar.
radarSpikeAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha for radar spikes. Radar spikes are the lines that emanate from the center to the vertex of radar.
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On radar charts, anchors (or marker points) are polygons which appear at the joint of two consecutive lines or area points. These are indicators to show the position of data points.

The anchors handle tool tips and links for the data points. So, if you opt to not render anchors on a chart, the tool tips and links won't function. You can, however, hide them by setting alpha to 0 and still enable tool tips and links.

You can customize all the facets of anchors using the properties below.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
drawAnchors	Boolean	0/1	Whether to draw anchors on the chart. If the anchors are not shown, then the tool tip and links will not work.
anchorSides	Number	3-20	This attribute sets the number of sides the anchor will have. For example, an anchor with 3 sides would represent a triangle, with 4 it would be a square and so on.
anchorRadius	Number	In Pixels	This attribute sets the radius (in pixels) of the anchor. Greater the radius, bigger would be the anchor size.
anchorBorderColor	Color	Hex Code	Lets you set the border color of anchors.
anchorBorderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Helps you set border thickness of anchors.
anchorBgColor	Color	Hex Code	Helps you set the background color of anchors.
anchorAlpha	Number	0-100	Helps you set the alpha of entire anchors. If you need to hide the anchors on chart but still enable tool tips, set this as 0.
anchorBgAlpha	Number	0-100	Helps you set the alpha of anchor background.
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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 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.
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In radar charts, the series name of each data-set shows up in the legend of the chart. If you do not need the legend, you can opt to hide the same.

Also, the legend can be placed at the bottom of the chart or to the right of the chart.

Using the attributes below, you can configure the functional and cosmetic properties of the legend.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
showLegend	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show legend for the chart.
legendPosition	String	BOTTOM or RIGHT	The legend can be plotted at two positions on the chart - below the chart (BOTTOM) and on the RIGHT side of the chart.
legendCaption	String		You can add a caption for the entire legend by setting the same here.
legendIconScale Since v 3.2	Number	0-5	Scaling of legend icon is possible starting PowerCharts XT. This attribute lets you control the size of legend icon.
legendBgColor	Color	Hex Code	Background color for the legend.
legendBgAlpha	Number	0-100	Background alpha for the legend.
legendBorderColor	Color	Hex Code	Border Color for the legend.
legendBorderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Border thickness for the legend.
legendBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Border alpha for the legend.
legendShadow	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show a shadow for legend.
legendAllowDrag	Boolean	0/1	The legend can be made drag-able by setting this attribute to 1. End viewers of the chart can drag the legend around on the chart.
legendScrollBgColor	Color	Hex Code	If you have too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the background color of the scroll bar.
legendScrollBarColor	Color	Hex Code	If you have too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the bar color of the scroll bar.
legendScrollBtnColor	Color	Hex Code	If you have too many items on the legend, a scroll bar shows up on the same. This attribute lets you configure the color of buttons of the scroll bar.
reverseLegend	Boolean	0/1	You can reverse the ordering of datasets in the legend by setting this attribute to 1.
interactiveLegend Since v 3.2	Boolean	0/1	This attribute lets you interact with the legend in your chart. When you click a legend key, the dataplots associated with that series are eliminated from the chart. Re-clicking the key causes the dataplots to reappear.
legendNumColumns Since v 3.2	Number	Positive Integer	If your chart contains multiple series, the legend is displayed as a grid comprising of multiple legend keys. With the help of this attribute you can specify the number of columns that are to be displayed in the legend.
minimiseWrappingInLegend Since v 3.2	Boolean	0/1	Whether to minimize legend item text wrapping.
legendMarkerCircle deprecated. Not applicable.	Boolean	0/1	Whether to use square legend keys or circular ones.
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PowerCharts 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 would 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, for example, 40,000 if formatNumber='1' and 40000 if formatNumber='0'. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
formatNumberScale	Boolean	0/1	Configuration whether to add K (thousands) and M (millions) to a number after truncating and rounding it - for example, if formatNumberScale is set to 1, 1043 would 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 section.
defaultNumberScale	String		The default unit of the numbers that you're providing to the chart. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
numberScaleUnit	String		Unit of each block of the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
numberScaleValue	String		Range of the various blocks that constitute the scale. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
scaleRecursively Since v 3.2.1	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 3.2.1	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 3.2.1	String		What character to use to separate the scales that generated after recursion? For more details please 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 section.
numberSuffix	String	Character	Using this attribute, you could add 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 section.
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 section.
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 section.
thousandSeparatorPosition Since v 3.2.1	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, the chart 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 section.
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, the chart 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 section.
decimals	Number	0-10	Number of decimal places to which all numbers on the chart would be rounded to. For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
forceDecimals	Boolean	0-1	Whether to add 0 padding at the end of decimal numbers. For example, if you set decimals as 2 and a number is 23.4. If forceDecimals is set to 1, the number will automatically be converted to 23.40 (note the extra 0 at the end). For more details, please see Advanced Charting > Number Formatting section.
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 section.
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 section.
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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 need to use the Styles feature of PowerCharts 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, that is, 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, that is, 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, that is, 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, that is, 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, that is, 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.
seriesNameInToolTip	Boolean	0/1	For Multi-series charts, PowerCharts XT shows the following information in tool tip (unless tool text is explicitly defined): "Series Name, Category Name, Data Value". This attribute lets you control whether series name would show up in tool tip or not.
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.

PowerCharts XT allows you manually customize the padding of various elements on the chart to allow advanced manipulation and control over chart visualization. Padding in PowerCharts 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, PowerCharts XT would not plot anything in that space.

It is not necessary for you to specify any padding/margin values. PowerCharts 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.
labelPadding	Number	In Pixels	This attribute sets the vertical space between the labels and canvas bottom edge. If you want more space between the canvas and the x-axis labels, you can use this attribute to control it.
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.
legendPadding	Number	In Pixels	Padding of legend from right or bottom side of canvas
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The <categories> element lets you bunch together x-axis labels of the chart. For a Multi-series chart, it is necessary to provide data labels using <category> elements under <categories> element.

The following properties of <categories> element help you control the font properties of data labels.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
font	String	Valid font face	Lets you specify font face for the x-axis data labels.
fontSize	Number		Lets you specify font size for the x-axis data labels.
fontColor	Color	Hex Code	Lets you specify font color for the x-axis data labels.
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Each <category> element represents an x-axis data label.

In Multi-series charts, it is necessary to provide an equal number of <category> elements and data items (<set> elements within each <dataset>). PowerCharts XT plots only those data items for which it could find a respective <category> element.

You can specify the following attributes for <category> element:

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.
showLabel	Boolean	0/1	You can individually opt to show or hide labels of individual data items using this attribute.
toolText	String		The tooltip defined in the <category> element appears only when the mouse cursor is hovered over the data plots. However, this will not appear when the cursor is moved over the data labels (except for a situation when long labels are automatically truncated with ellipses. In this situation, if the mouse cursor is hovered over a truncated label, the tooltip will appear with the full label). In case you want to set a short label and show the full label in tooltip, define the full label using this attribute within the <category> element. The tooltip with the full label will appear only when the mouse is hovered on the dataplot.
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Each <dataset> element contains a series of data.

For example, if we are plotting a monthly sales comparison chart for 2 successive years, the first data-set would contain the data for first year and the next one for the second year.

You can provide data-set level cosmetics so that all data within that data-set will be plotted in the same color/alpha/etc.

Also, each data-set can be named using the seriesName attribute of <dataset> element. The series name appears in the legend of the chart. In our previous example, the series name could have well been 2005 and 2006 for first and second data-set respectively.

Depending on the chart type, there are a number of properties which you can define for each <dataset> element.

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
seriesName	String		Lets you specify the series name for a particular data-set. For example, if you are plotting a chart to indicate monthly sales analysis for 2005 and 2006, the seriesName for the first dataset would be 2005 and that of the second would be 2006. The seriesName of a data-set is shown in legend.
color	Color	Hex Code (Or Comma separated list)	This attribute sets the color using which columns, lines, area of that data-set would be drawn. For column chart, you can specify a list of comma separated hex codes to get a gradient plot.
alpha	String	0-100 or Comma Separated List	This attribute sets the alpha (transparency) of the entire data-set.
showValues	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show the values for this data-set.
includeInLegend	Boolean	0/1	Whether to include the seriesName of this data-set in legend. This can be particularly useful when you are using combination charts and you have used the area or line chart to plot a trend, and you do not want the seriesName of that trend to appear in legend.
showPlotBorder	Boolean	0/1	Whether to show the border of this data-set.
plotBorderColor	Color		Color for data plot border of this data-set.
plotBorderThickness	Number	0-5 (Pixels)	Thickness for data plot border of this data-set.
plotBorderAlpha	Number	0-100	Alpha for data plot border of this data-set.
drawAnchors	Boolean	0/1	Whether to draw anchors for the particular data-set. If the anchors are not shown, then the tool tip and links won't work for the data-set.
anchorSides	Number	3-20	Sets the number of sides that the anchors of the particular data-set will have. For example, an anchor with 3 sides would represent a triangle, with 4 it would be a square and so on.
anchorRadius	Number	In Pixels	This attribute sets the radius (in pixels) of the anchors of the particular data-set. Greater the radius, bigger would be the anchor size.
anchorBorderColor	Color	Hex Code	Lets you set the border color of anchors of the particular data-set.
anchorBorderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Helps you set border thickness of anchors of the particular data-set.
anchorBgColor	Color	Hex Code	Helps you set the background color of anchors of the particular data-set.
anchorAlpha	Number	0-100	Helps you set the alpha of entire anchors of the particular data-set. If you need to hide the anchors for the data-set but still enable tool tips, set this as 0.
anchorBgAlpha	Number	0-100	Helps you set the alpha of anchor background of the particular data-set.
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Each <set> element (child of <dataset> element) represents a set of data which is to be plotted on the graph and determines a set of data which would appear on the chart.

For a radar chart, a typical <set> element would look like:

<dataset seriesName='2006'>
	<set value='35445' />
	<set value='35675' />
	.... and so on ....
</dataset>

In radar charts, you should again note that the number of <category> elements should be equal to the number of data points in each data sets, that is, if you mention twelve categories (twelve months), the data for both years (2005 & 2006) should also contain twelve <set> elements (twelve rows of data).

Attribute Name	Type	Range	Description
value	Number		Numerical value for the data item. This value would be plotted on the chart.
color	Color	Hex Code	For Multi-series charts, you can define the color of data-sets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify its color at "set" level using this attribute. This attribute accepts hex color codes without #.
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.
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 Advanced Charting > Drill Down Charts for more information. Also, you'll need to URL Encode all the special characters (like ? and &) present in the link.
toolText	String		By default, PowerCharts XT shows the series Name, Category 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.
showValue	Boolean	0/1	You can individually opt to show or hide values of individual data items using this attribute. This value over-rides the data-set level value.
alpha	Number	0-100	For Multi-series charts, you can define the alpha of data-sets at dataset level. However, if you wish to highlight a particular data element, you can specify it's alpha at "set" level using this attribute.
anchorSides	Number	3-20	Lets you specify "set" specific sides of the anchor.
anchorRadius	Number	In Pixels	Lets you specify "set" specific radius (in pixels) of the anchor.
anchorBorderColor	Color	Hex Code	Lets you specify "set" specific border color of the anchor.
anchorBorderThickness	Number	In Pixels	Lets you specify "set" specific border thickness of the anchor.
anchorBgColor	Color	Hex Code	Lets you specify "set" specific background color of the anchor.
anchorAlpha	Number	0-100	Lets you specify "set" specific alpha of the anchor.
anchorBgAlpha	Number	0-100	Lets you specify "set" specific alpha of the anchor background.
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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 PowerCharts XT Styles section.