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Chart settings

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Updated at April 9, 2025

Charts are configurable. For example, you can choose to display a legend, customize a color scheme, or set your own title.

Available settings depend on the type of chart being configured.

General settings

General settings affect the overall display of charts.
To open general settings, click on the left side of the screen above the chart.

Warning

The settings specified below may not be available for some chart types.

Name

Description

Header

Sets the header for the chart.

Available values:

  • Hide: Hide header.
  • Show: Show header. You can enter the header text in the text field on the right.

Legend

Displays the legend below the chart. The legend contains chart colors with text descriptions referring to the field values in the Colors section.

Available values:

  • Hide: Hides the legend.
  • Auto: Displays the legend if the field is specified in the Colors section.

Tooltip

Displays tooltips when hovering over a chart item.

Available values:

  • On: Shows the tooltip.
  • Off: Hides the tooltip.

Sum in tooltips

Displays a sum in a tooltip when you hover over the chart.

Available values:

  • On: Displays a sum in a tooltip.
  • Off: Hides a sum in a tooltip.

Navigator

Displays an additional element below the chart, the navigator. It allows to reduce the data selection displayed on the chart.

Available values:

  • On: Shows the navigator.
  • Off: Hides the navigator.

For more information, see this guide.

Pagination

Breaks a table into pages.

Available values:

  • On: Displays the table part by part across a number of pages.
  • Off: Displays the whole table.

Limit

Sets the number of rows to export. This is also the number of rows displayed per page. Available if Pagination is enabled.

Grouping

Displays unique field values.

Available values:

  • On: Displays unique values.
  • Off: Displays all values.

Summary

Displays a row with total values for table columns. The row values are calculated using the same formulas as aggregation in the measure.

Available values:

  • On: Shows the Total row.
  • Off: Hides the Total row.

Stacking

Stacked or isolated data display for each category in the area chart.

Available values:

  • On: Displays stacked data.
  • Off: Displays unstacked data.

Field settings

You can configure:

To open settings of a dimension or a measure, click the icon to the left of its name.

Note

If you apply an aggregation to the dimension, it will become a measure and the relevant settings will become available for it.

Dimensions

Name

Description

Name

Sets a dimension name.

Type

Sets the type of dimension data.

Grouping

Sets the type of grouping or rounding. The setting is only available for the Date and Date and time type dimensions.

Format

Sets the format of how the values are displayed.

Date mode

Sets the date display mode. The setting is only available for the Date and Date and time type dimensions.

Available values:

  • Continuous: Displays all dates continuously.
  • Discrete: Displays dates that contain values.

Aggregation

Sets the aggregation type. Aggregation functions are available according to the Aggregating data table.

Markdown

The field value will be formatted according to Markdown. Only available for String type fields.

Sub-totals

Shows columns and/or rows with subtotals. This setting is only available for Pivot table charts.

Measures

Name

Description

Name

Sets the measure name.

Type

Sets the type of measure data. Not available for QL charts.

Aggregation

Sets the aggregation type. Aggregation functions are available according to the Aggregating data table. Not available for QL charts.

Markdown

The field value will be formatted according to Markdown. Only available for String type fields.

Format

Sets value display format.

Decimal places

Sets the number of decimal places. Not available for QL charts.

Display groups of thousands

Enables displaying groups of thousands for numeric values.

Available values:

  • With separator: Displays spaces between groups of thousands.
  • Merged: Hide spaces between groups of thousands.

Prefix

Sets a text displayed before a value.

Postfix

Sets a text displayed after a value.

Dimension

Sets a rounding scale of values.

Section settings

To open section settings, click in the row with the section name.

Axes

Axis settings are only available for charts that have at least one X or Y axis:

  • Line chart.
  • Area chart (stacked and normalized).
  • Column chart (including normalized).
  • Bar chart (including normalized).
  • Scatter chart.

You can configure settings for both the X and Y axes.

Warning

Some of these settings may not be available for some axes.

Name

Description

Axis name

Sets an axis label.

Available values:

  • On: Use the field name. If the section contains multiple fields, DataLens uses the name of the field listed first.
  • Off: No axis label displayed.
  • Manually: Allows setting an axis name manually in a text field.

Axis type

Defines the axis type. This setting is available if the fields in the axis section are of the Fractional number type.

Available values:

  • Linear: Use linear axis.
  • Logarithmic: Use logarithmic axis. Suitable for charts with a large spread of values. The logarithmic axis allows you to display a fast-growing graph in a convenient form for analysis, reducing values by an order of magnitude.

Graph axis

This setting allows you to hide all axis elements: lines, labels, and grid.

Available values:

  • Show: Displays all axis elements.
  • Hide: Hides all axis elements.

Display mode

Enables configuring continuous chart display.

Available values:

  • Discrete: Plots the chart only for non-null values.
  • Continuous: Plots the chart for all values continuously. You can only use continuous mode for the Integer, Fractional number, Date, or Date and time data types.

Axis formatting

Sets the formatting of numerical axis labels.

Available values:

  • Auto: Default formatting.
  • By first field on the X axis: Displays the X axis labels with the formatting specified in the Format setting for the first field in the X section. Available in the X axis settings.
  • By first field on the Y axis: Displays the Y axis labels with the formatting specified in the Format setting for the first field in the Y section. Available in the Y axis settings.

Grid

Enables or disables grid display on the chart.

Available values:

  • On: Shows grid.
  • Off: Hides grid.

Grid increments, px

Sets grid increment in pixels. Available if the Grid setting is on.

Available values:

  • Auto: Calculates grid size automatically.
  • Manual: Specify grid size in pixels.

Labels

Shows or hides axis labels based on field values.

Available values:

  • On: Shows axis labels.
  • Off: Hides axis labels.

Label appearance

Sets the way the labels are displayed. Available if the Labels setting is on.

Available values:

  • Auto: Displays axis labels.
  • Horizontal: Displays axis labels horizontally.
  • Vertical: Displays axis labels vertically.
  • Angled: Displays axis labels at a 45-degree angle.

Null values

Allows you to select the handling method for null values.

Available values:

  • Hide: Hides null values in charts.
  • Connect: Connects field values where there are null values in between.
  • Display as 0: Displays null values in charts as zero (0) field values.
  • Use previous: Replaces null values with the value of the preceding point on the axis. Available in the Y axis settings for the stacked chart.

Scaling

Sets the chart axis scale.

Available values:

  • Auto: Enables autoscaling. You can specify how DataLens sets the scale: from 0 to the maximum field value (Autoscale from 0 to max) or from the minimum to the maximum field values (Autoscale from min to max).
  • Manually: Requires manual input of the axis scale. You can set the maximum and minimum values along the axis. DataLens will trim the chart lines by this value.

Colors

Generally, you can set a specific color for any graph value.

The following settings are available for a tree diagram, a table (including a pivot table), and a map:

Name

Description

Gradient type

Sets the number of gradient colors.

Available values:

  • Two-color: Sets two colors for the gradient.
  • Tree-color: Sets three colors for the gradient.

Color

Sets a color for a value. Available colors depend on the gradient type.

Set threshold values

Allows you to set threshold values that will refer to each color.

Borders

Sets borders for geopolygons.

Available values:

  • Show: Displays geopolygon borders.
  • Hide: Hides geopolygon borders.

You can create color palettes and use them in your charts.

Labels

Labels display measure values on the chart. Markup functions are supported. For String type fields, you can configure using basic Markdown syntax: click the icon before the field name and enable Markdown.

Labels are available for the following charts types:

  • Line chart.
  • Area chart (stacked and normalized).
  • Column chart (including normalized).
  • Bar chart (including normalized).
  • Pie chart.
  • Map.

Sorting

Allows you to sort chart values by measure or dimension.

Sorting is available for the following chart types:

  • Line chart.
  • Area chart (stacked and normalized).
  • Column chart (including normalized).
  • Bar chart (including normalized).
  • Pie chart.
  • Table (including a Pivot table).

Filters

Filters allow you to make a selection of values by dimension or measure.
Filters are available for all chart types.

Map section settings

You can configure layers, point size and color, tooltips, and filters.
To open section settings, click in the row with the section name.

Warning

Depending on the visualization type, different settings are available.

Name

Description

Size

Sets point size depending on the measure value.

Colors

These set a color for geopoints and geopolygons depending on the measure value.

Tooltips

These create a tooltip displayed when you hover over a point. The tooltip contains dimension and measure values. For String type fields, you can configure using basic Markdown syntax: click the icon before the field name and enable Markdown.

Layer filters

Create a selection by dimension or measure for the current layer.

General filters

Create a selection by dimension or measure for the whole chart.

Layers

You can add up to five layers with any visualization types to a single map:

  • Scatter chart: Geopoints dimension type.
  • Choropleth map: Geopolygons dimension type.
  • Heat map: Geopoints (heat map) dimension type.

You can delete and rename layers.

You can change the transparency of the current layer using the slider. You can also set transparency of a text field above the slider.

slider

Transparency can have a value from 0 to 100.

Colors

You can set a color for geopoints and geopolygons, which will depend on the measure value.

Name

Description

Gradient type

Sets the number of gradient colors.

Available values:

  • Two-color: Sets two colors for the gradient.
  • Tree-color: Sets three colors for the gradient.

Borders

Sets borders for geopolygons.

Available values:

  • Show: Displays geopolygon borders.
  • Hide: Hides geopolygon borders.

Color

Sets a color for geopoints and geopolygons. Available colors depend on the gradient type.

Set threshold values

It allows you to set threshold values that will refer to each color.

You can create color palettes and use them in your charts.

Undoing and redoing changes in charts

When editing a chart in the wizard or a QL chart, you can now undo/redo any change introduced within the current version:

  • To undo changes, click in the top-right corner of the screen or press Ctrl (Cmd) + Z.
  • To redo changes, click or press Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + Z.

Unsaved changes in the current version are reset:

  • When refreshing the page.
  • When saving a chart.
  • When switching to another version.
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