Formatting Axes and Grid Lines in Visuals

When you create a chart, axis lines, axis labels, axis sort icons, and grid lines are added to the chart automatically. You can format your visuals to show or hide axis elements and grid lines and to customize their appearance.
To format the axes and grid lines from a visual:
  1. Click Dashboards tab, the Dashboards tab.
  2. Click Dashboard Designer, in the bottom-left corner.
  3. On the Analyses dialog, click Options button, the Options button, next to an analysis and select Edit.
  4. On the analysis page, select a visual.
  5. Click Format visual icon, the Format visual icon, in the top-right corner of the visual.
  6. In the Properties panel on the right, expand the section for the axis that you want to format.
    The available axis settings depend on the type of visual.
  7. To remove or display the axis title, click Hide axis title icon, the Hide axis title icon, or Show axis title icon, the Show axis title icon, next to Title.
    You can also enter a custom axis title in the text box. To include a parameter in the title, click Insert parameter icon, the Insert parameter icon.
  8. To remove or display the sort icon, click Hide quick sort icon icon, the Hide quick sort icon icon, or Show quick sort icon icon, the Show quick sort icon icon, next to Sort.
    If you remove the sort icon, the sort icon is no longer displayed on the axis but the sorting options applied to the visual are not affected.
  9. To remove or display the data zoom bar, click Hide data zoom icon, the Hide data zoom icon, or Show data zoom icon, the Show data zoom icon, next to Data zoom.

    The data zoom bar appears automatically on charts with an x-axis that contain more than one data point. You can adjust the size of the bar to zoom to specific data points in the chart.

    If you zoom in or out using the data zoom bar, and then hide the data zoom bar, the zoom position is not maintained and the visual displays all the data points. When you enable the data zoom again, the visual returns to its previous state.

  10. To remove or display the axis line, click Hide axis line icon, the Hide axis line icon, or Show axis line icon, the Show axis line icon, next to Axis line.
  11. To hide or show axis labels, turn the Label switch off or on.
    You can set the label size and orientation.
  12. To remove or display the grid lines, click Hide grid lines icon, the Hide grid lines icon, or Show grid lines icon, the Show grid lines icon, next to Grid lines.
Parent topic: Formatting Visuals