Global visualization preferences

You can override the default settings for titles, range slider, grid lines, and mouse tracking. You can also specify a different color scheme template.

1. In Visualizations, click the Global visualization preferences control in the Actions section.

   The Global visualization preferences dialog provides the following settings.

   Titles

   Provides global chart title settings.

   Global titles

   Enables or disables the global titles for all charts.

   Global primary title

   Enables or disables the display of global, primary chart titles. When enabled, the top-level chart title that you enter here is applied to all chart's, effectively overriding each chart's individual Primary title setting.

   Global subtitle

   Enables or disables the display of global chart subtitles. When enabled, the chart subtitle that you enter here is applied to all chart's, effectively overriding each chart's individual Subtitle setting.

   Default titles

   Enables or disables the default titles for all charts.

   Title alignment

   Provides the title alignment options Left, Center (the default setting), and Right.

   Tools

   Provides options that control chart behavior.

   Range slider

   Enables or disables the range slider for each chart. When enabled, you can control the amount of chart data that displays with a range slider that is provided for each chart.

   Grid lines

   Controls the display of X axis (vertical) and Y axis (horizontal) grid lines.

   Mouse tracker

   When enabled, the mouse cursor location, in relation to the chart data, is tracked and displayed when placed anywhere over the chart.

   Toolbox

   Enables or disables the toolbox for each chart. Depending on the chart type, the toolbox on the right of the screen provides tools such as zoom, save as image, restore, select data, and clear selection.

   ARIA

   When enabled, web content and web applications are more accessible to users with disabilities.

   Filter out null

   Enables or disables the filtering of null chart data.

   X axis on zero

   When enabled, the X axis lies on the other's origin position. When not enabled, the X axis always starts at 0.

   Y axis on zero

   When enabled, the Y axis lies on the other's origin position. When not enabled, the Y axis always starts at 0.

   Show xAxis Label

   Enables or disables the xAxis label.

   Show yAxis Label

   Enables or disables the yAxis label.

   Show xAxis Line

   Enables or disables the xAxis line.

   Show yAxis Line

   Enables or disables the yAxis line.

   Show xAxis Name

   Enables or disables the xAxis name.

   Show yAxis Name

   Enables or disables the yAxis name.

   yAxis Name Location

   The drop-down list provides options for specifying the yAxis name location. Options include Start, Middle, and End.

   Truncation length

   The specified value sets the string length. Strings that are longer than the specified length are truncated. The default value is 10. When 0 is specified, truncation is turned off.

   xAxis tick label decimal

   Sets the tick label decimal value for the xAxis. The default value is 3.

   yAxis tick label decimal

   Sets the tick label decimal value for the yAxis. The default value is 3.

   xAxis tick label rotate

   Sets the xAxis tick label rotation value. The default value is 0 (no rotation). You can specify value in the range -90 to 90 degrees.

   Theme

   Select a template to change the colors that are used in charts that have a grouping or stacking variable. Any element attributes defined in the selected template file override the default template settings for those element attributes.

2. Click Apply to save your settings or Cancel to disregard the changes.