Chart Customizing Tools

Aabel provides numerous chart customizing tools.

An overview of the graphic sublayers palette and its functions are outlined below. For other customizing tools, visit the corresponding links displayed on the right-hand side banner.

Each chart pane or other graphic object created is placed in a transparent sublayer of the current viewer page and its specifications are displayed in the graphic sublayers palette. The sublayers palette allows:

• Creating multiple live charts (hot-linked to data) on a single viewer page
• Overlaying X-Y charts, or creating a thematic group by overlaying a thematic map and an X-Y chart (see the two bottom images on this page)
• Changing the z-order of sublayers and hence the objects they contain
• Modifying the transparency of fills, lines and markers independently
• Hiding sublayers, locking the objects they contain, deleting objects, etc.
• Modifying the chart pane size
• Making an active chart inactive and vice versa (in a multiple chart setting, the active chart is the chart that responds to commands)
• Applying X-zoom to exclude data from a given chart without affecting other charts using the same data source(s)
• Hiding/showing chart legends and 2-D chart axes