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Analytics+
  • Introduction to Analytics+
    • Installing Analytics+
      • Install for yourself
      • Installing from AppSource
      • Installing for your organization
    • Licensing and manual renewal
  • Working with Analytics+
    • 1. Navigating the Analytics+ toolbar
      • Chart toolbar
      • Card toolbar
      • Table toolbar
    • 2. Data Management
      • Advanced pivot
      • Adding calculated measures
    • 3. Charts
      • 3.1. Charts - getting started
      • 3.2. Quick options - charts
        • X-axis customizations
        • Y-axis customizations
      • 3.3. Configure measures for charts
      • 3.4. Configure dimensions for charts
      • 3.5. Chart discoverability
      • 3.6. Data label customizations
      • 3.7. Deviation
      • 3.8. Display settings for charts
        • Charts - canvas settings
        • Charts - axis settings
        • Charts - number settings
        • Charts - legend settings
        • Charts - other settings
          • Charts - tooltip settings
    • 5. Cards
      • 5.1. Cards - getting started
      • 5.2. Quick options-cards
        • KPI customizations
        • Chart customizations
      • 5.3. Configure measures for cards
      • 5.4. Configure dimensions for cards
      • 5.5. Insight charts
      • 5.6. Variance customizations
      • 5.7. KPI containers
        • Working with Groups
        • Working with Flex components
      • 5.8. Inserting formulas & text
      • 5.9. Card customizations
      • 5.10. Display settings for cards
        • Cards - canvas settings
        • Cards - number settings
        • Cards - legend settings
        • Cards - axis settings
        • Cards - other settings
          • Cards - tooltip settings
    • 6. Tables
      • 6.1. Tables - getting started
      • 6.2. Quick options - tables
      • 6.3. Configure measures for tables
      • 6.4. Configure dimensions for tables
      • 6.5. Formatting data
      • 6.6. Number formatting
      • 6.7. Inline charts
      • 6.8. Blend measures
      • 6.9. Row gripper options
      • 6.10. Display settings for tables
        • Tables - canvas settings
        • Tables - number settings
        • Tables - other settings
          • Tables - tooltip settings
    • 7. Trellis customizations
      • Charts trellis layout
      • Cards trellis layout
      • Tables trellis layout
    • 8. Customize measures
      • Charts measure series
      • Cards measure series
      • Tables measure series
    • 9. Splitting and grouping measures
      • Splitting and grouping: charts
      • Splitting and grouping: cards
      • Splitting and grouping: tables
    • 10. Conditional formatting
      • One-click rules
        • One click rules for charts
        • One click rules for cards
        • One click rules for tables
      • Configuring rules
        • Configuring rules for charts
        • Configuring rules for cards
        • Configuring rules for tables
        • Variable conditional formatting rules
        • Applying conditional formatting rules
      • Setting color scales
      • Managing rules
    • 11. Sort & Reorder data
      • Sorting data
      • Advanced sorting
      • Reordering data
    • 12. Ranking data - TopN
      • Ranking for charts
      • Ranking for cards
      • Ranking for tables
      • Dynamic ranking with numeric parameters
    • 13. Adding notes
      • Notes for charts
      • Notes for tables
    • 14. Data selection
    • 15. Working with hierarchies
      • Hierarchies in charts
      • Hierarchies in cards
      • Hierarchies in tables
      • Unbalanced hierarchies
      • Single child hierarchies
    • 16. Summary tables
    • 17. Backup and restore
    • 18. Context awareness
    • 19. Image support
      • Images in cards
      • Images in tables
    • 20. Analytics
      • Reference line
      • Reference band
      • Error bar
      • Trend line
      • Additional series
    • 21. Keyboard shortcuts
    • 22. Reading view access
    • 23. Row aggregation
  • Storyboard
    • Element customizations
    • Board customizations
    • Working with textboxes
    • Uploading images
    • Using shapes
    • Inserting slicers
    • Element interactions
    • Layers
    • Navigation
      • Play axis
    • Annotations
  • Gantt chart
    • Gantt: Canvas settings
      • Gantt: General settings
      • Gantt: Column settings
      • Gantt: Grid settings
      • Gantt: Timeline settings
    • Gantt milestones
    • Gantt: Data label settings
    • Gantt: Conditional formatting
    • Gantt: Web URLs
    • Gantt resource
    • Gantt: Zoom levels
  • Quick charts
    • Waterfall charts
    • Marimekko
    • Column/Bar charts
    • Bullet charts
    • Area charts
    • Pie charts
    • Treemap charts
    • Radar/Polar charts
    • Funnel charts
    • Sunburst charts
    • Bubble charts
    • Boxplots
    • Histogram
    • Gauge
    • Storytelling charts
      • Range charts
      • Ribbon chart
      • Tornado chart
      • Multi-variate charts
      • Sankey charts
    • Combo charts
  • Release notes
    • Analytics+ April 2025 update - Release 4.7
    • Analytics+ March 2025 update - Release 4.6
    • Analytics+ January 2025 update - Release 4.5.
    • Analytics+ January 2025 update - Release 4.3
    • Analytics+ November 2024 update -Release 4.2
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  • 1. Theme
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Font style
  • 4. Axis default date format
  • 5. Group default date format
  • 6. Marker display
  • 7. Category format
  • 8. Marker series
  • 9. Individual category format/ category format
  • 10. Variance
  • 11. Variance display
  • 12. Series label
  • 13. Individual stacked group color
  • 14. Connector line
  1. Working with Analytics+
  2. 3. Charts
  3. 3.8. Display settings for charts

Charts - canvas settings

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The canvas tab enables you to set the theme, assign chart colors, customize the variance, or change the font for the entire report.

Canvas settings are subject to vary based on the chart type.

1. Theme

Analytics+ comes packed with built-in themes you can apply in a single click. Select the theme from the dropdown to apply it.

  • Customizing themes: With Analytics+, you can customize themes by setting the chart/measure/font/background colors. You can design a custom theme for charts/cards and tables by navigating to Canvas settings > Theme > Customize.

2. Background

You can set a custom background color for the canvas. It is set to white by default.

3. Font style

Set the font type, size, and color. To set a custom font color, the Auto color toggle should be disabled.

  • Responsive: When this option is enabled, Analytics+ will dynamically adjust the font size based on the canvas size. The font size will be reduced as you decrease the canvas size, enabling you to fit in as much data as possible and optimize the available canvas area.

When the responsive font option is enabled, the data label, axis, and legend size are automatically adjusted based on the panel (in trellis mode) and canvas size.

The data label size is set to the value specified in data label settings when the responsive font option is disabled.

In the example, when the responsive font is disabled, notice how the variance data label size is disproportional to the bar size. Also, the data point labels are not displayed as the font size is too large to fit into the available canvas area.

4. Axis default date format

When you disable the Axis default date format toggle, the system date format is taken as the date format in the chart.

5. Group default date format

Like the Axis default date format option, when you have a date dimension as your small multiple parameter, you can choose whether to use the default date in Analytics+ or the system date format.

6. Marker display

For charts like area/line that have markers for each data point, you can regulate the number of markers to display. Choose from options like All, Last Only, First + Last, Min + Max, etc. The Nth Label option allows you to specify the interval between data points for which to display markers.

6.1. Outlier

You can display markers for outliers as well. Analytics+ allows you to use a different colored marker to differentiate between outliers and regular data points. You can also set a custom percentage for rendering outliers i.e. consecutive data points which differ beyond the specified percentage will be considered outliers.

In the example, we have highlighted the outlier markers in red when the deviation between consecutive points is greater than 30%.

6.2. Min/max value

When you display the min and max markers, you can set a custom color for them. Analytics+ renders min and max markers in the standard red and blue scheme.

6.3. Based on

You can specify the data driving the first/last/min/max calculations for stacked and cluster area charts.

  • Category: The markers are displayed based on each category's minimum/maximum values.

  • Series: The markers are displayed based on each measure's minimum/maximum or first/last value.

  • Stacked total: The markers are displayed based on the minimum/maximum of the total value for each category.

7. Category format

You can customize the appearance of each measure by setting the fill and color.

7.1. Enabling markers

Additionally, for each measure, you can enable markers for the data points and set the marker style, size, and color. In the example, we have chosen a diamond marker for the 2024 Plan measure and a square marker for the 2023 Actuals measure.

7.2. Chart placement

When you have overlapping charts in your report, you can choose which chart to bring to the fore. In the example, the line chart for the 2024 Plan has been moved to the back and the line chart for 2023 Actuals is rendered in front of the bar chart.

8. Marker series

When you have AC, PY, and PL measures, PY is typically represented as an overlapped bar behind AC and PL as a flag to enable comparisons with the AC measure. You can also plot PL as the overlapped bar and PY as a flag.

9. Individual category format/ category format

For single-measure charts, you can opt for each axis category to be rendered in a different style. You can choose between solid, hatched, and outline styles for charts like waterfall, variance, and bullet which depict data using bars.

When using the Power BI theme, you cannot update the colors for individual categories as the colors are directly derived from the Power BI sequence.

10. Variance

You can override the default red/ green and set custom colors to represent positive and negative variances.

10.1. Marker

When the variance is plotted as a different chart, you can set the shape, color, and size of the variance markers.

10.2. Axis size

Set the thickness of the variance axis line. Choose between a thin or a thick axis.

10.3. Min/max

Specify a percentage difference beyond which a variance data point will be considered an outlier.

11. Variance display

You can also choose to depict variances as an arrow or a bar. The default option is bar.

12. Series label

Series labels help users quickly relate the dimension or measure series to what is plotted in the chart. When you work with stacked charts, you can display the category label against the stack for easy identification.

12.1. Show connecting line

Render a line that connects the series label to the category.

12.2. Position

Display series labels to the right or left of the chart.

12.3. Width

Adjust the width of the series label section. If the category names are long, you can change the width to accommodate and display the entire name.

12.4. Font and style

Set the font format, style, and size.

12.5. Match series color

Enable the Match Series color toggle if you want the font color to match that of the series categories. You can set a custom color when this toggle is disabled.

12.6. Background

Set a custom background color to highlight series labels.

13. Individual stacked group color

For stacked and multi-axis charts, you have the flexibility to assign colors for each category. Click on the color box against the category to open the color picker. Choose from a wide range of fill patterns to easily distinguish between various categories, enhancing the readability of your data.

When multiple measures are plotted in a stacked chart, enabling the Individual stacked group color toggle will display all combinations of the measure and the group category in the legend.

14. Connector line

Waterfall charts and stacked charts can have lines that connect each of the bars/stacks. You can hide the lines by disabling the Connector line toggle. You can also set a custom color for connector lines.

When you have a date dimension in your axis or small multiples, Analytics+ assigns the date format based on the date format in the summary table. .

Learn more about summary tables
Setting the theme
Designing custom themes
Canvas background
Setting the font style for charts
Responsive font size
Responsive font for data labels
Date format in the summary table
Date format for axis taken from summary table
System date format taken for axis
Group default date format enabled
Group default date format disabled
Marker display
Outlier markers
Min and max default color scheme
Based on option
Measure customizations
Enabling and customizing markers
Chart placement for overlapping charts
PL as flag
PY as flag
Format for each category
Custom colors for positive and negative variances
Variance markers
Thin variance axis line
Thick variance axis line
Variance outliers
Variance customizations
Series label
Show connecting line
Series label position
Series label width
Font and style
Match series color enabled
Custom font color for series labels
Series label background
Individual stacked group colors and fill patterns
Legend for individual stacked groups
Connector lines