Charts - canvas settings
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 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.
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
When you work with stacked charts, you can display the category label against the stack for easy identification.
13. Stack groups
For stacked charts, you have the flexibility to assign colors for each category. Click on the color box against the category to open the color picker.
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.
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